Rowman Littlefield Publishers imprint: 5577 books
Antebellum Women
Private, Public, Partisan
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2010
How did diverse women in America understand, explain, and act upon their varied constraints, positions, responsibilities, and worldviews in changing American society between the end of the Revolution and the beginning of the Civil War? Antebellum Women: Private, Public, Partisan answers the question...
Hamilton
An American Biography
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018
The award-winning, smash Broadway hit, Hamilton: An American Musical**,**continues to captivate sold-out audiences and has sparked unprecedented interest in its historical protagonist.
In Hamilton: An American Biography, Tony Williams provides readers with a concise biography that traces the...
Alexander Hamilton
Ambivalent Anglophile
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2002
Of all of the Founding Fathers of the American republic none, with the possible exception of Thomas Jefferson, has evoked more passions and aroused more controversy than Alexander Hamilton. In this absorbing new biography, eminent historian Lawrence Kaplan examines Hamilton's conception of America's...
Gloomy Terrors and Hidden Fires
The Mystery of John Colter and Yellowstone
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
From 1810, when a newspaper published the first account of “Colter’s Run,” to 2012, when one hundred and fourscore participants in Montana’s annual John Colter Run charged up and down rugged trails—even across the waist-deep Gallatin River—interest in Colter, the alleged discoverer of...
To the Diamond Mountains
A Hundred-Year Journey through China and Korea
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
This compelling and engaging book takes readers on a unique journey through China and North and South Korea. Tessa Morris-Suzuki travels from Harbin in the north to Busan in the south, and on to the mysterious Diamond Mountains, which lie at the heart of the Korean Peninsula's crisis. As she follows...
Japanese Military Strategy in the Pacific War
Was Defeat Inevitable?
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2007
In this provocative history, James B. Wood challenges the received wisdom that Japan's defeat in the Pacific was historically inevitable. He argues instead that it was only when the Japanese military prematurely abandoned its original sound strategic plan—to secure the resources Japan needed and...
Air Power
A Global History
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
This essential book offers a compelling and original interpretation of the rise of military aviation. Jeremy Black, one of the world’s finest scholars of military history, provides a lucid analysis of the use of airpower over land and sea both during the two world wars and the more limited wars...
Citizen Jefferson
The Wit and Wisdom of an American Sage
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2005
Few Americans have had the profound impact on our nation as did Jefferson, and even fewer left such a wealth of sage advice. Jefferson, a talented statesman, architect, musician, and inventor, was also gifted with a pen and the elegant turn of phrase. Even his friend and rival, John Adams, said Jefferson...
Jewish Responses to Persecution
1942–1943
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
With its unique combination of primary sources and historical narrative, this volume provides an important new perspective on Holocaust history. Covering the peak years of the Nazi “Final Solution,” it traces the Jewish struggle for survival, which became increasingly urgent in this period, including...
Carpetbaggers, Cavalry, and the Ku Klux Klan
Exposing the Invisible Empire During Reconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
In some places, the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) was a social fraternity whose members enjoyed sophomoric hijinks and homemade liquor. In other areas, the KKK was a paramilitary group intent on keeping former slaves away from white women and Republicans away from ballot boxes. South Carolina saw the worst Klan...
Paying Freedom's Price
A History of African Americans in the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
Paying Freedom's Price provides a comprehensive yet brief and readable history of the role of African Americans—both slave and free—from the decade leading up to the Civil War until its immediate aftermath. Rather than focusing on black military service, the white-led abolitionist movement, or...
Richard Henry Lee of Virginia
A Portrait of an American Revolutionary
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2003
Richard Henry Lee played a pivotal role during the American Revolution, yet he remains one of the most misunderstood revolutionaries. His contemporaries, as well as modern historians, deemed him a political opportunist or dismissed him as an enigma. In bridging the gap between Lee's private interests...
The Making of a Quagmire
America and Vietnam During the Kennedy Era
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2007
Pulitzer-prize winning author David Halberstam's eyewitness account provides a riveting narrative of how the United States created a major foreign policy disaster for itself in a faraway land it knew little about. In the introduction to this edition, historian Daniel J. Singal supplies crucial background...
by David Halberstam
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2007
One of the most influential leaders of the twentieth century, Ho Chi Minh was founder of the Indochina Communist Party and its successor, the Viet-Minh, and was president from 1945 to 1969 of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam).
In exploring the life and career of Ho Chi Minh,...