Rowman Littlefield Publishers imprint: 5577 books
by Gary B. Nash
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1990
The most profound crisis of conscience for white Americans at the end of the eighteenth century became their most tragic failure. Race and Revolution is a trenchant study of the revolutionary generation's early efforts to right the apparent contradiction of slavery and of their ultimate compromises...
Nazis after Hitler
How Perpetrators of the Holocaust Cheated Justice and Truth
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
This deeply researched and informative book traces the biographies of thirty "typical" perpetrators of the Holocaust—some well known, some obscure—who survived World War II. Donald M. McKale reveals the shocking reality that the perpetrators were only rarely, if ever, tried or punished...
The Indonesian Presidency
The Shift from Personal toward Constitutional Rule
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2005
This pioneering study of the Indonesian presidency significantly redefines our understanding of Indonesian politics from independence to the present. Angus McIntyre blends political biography with constitutional history to locate Indonesian leaders within both Indonesian cultural frameworks and the...
The People between the Rivers
The Rise and Fall of a Bronze Drum Culture, 200–750 CE
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
This fundamental study provides the first comprehensive history in any language of the lands between the Red and Pearl Rivers in southern China and the people who resided there over a span of a thousand years. Bringing to life the mysterious early people known as Li and Lao who inhabited the area,...
Valmiki's Uttara Kanda
The Book of Answers
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
The last and most intriguing book of the Ramayana, the Uttara Kanda is rendered here by noted Sanskrit scholar Arshia Sattar in vivid, sensuous detail. First composed around 500 BCE, it tells the story of an unjustly exiled prince, the abduction of his wife from the forest by a ten-headed demon king,...
Stalin's Other War
Soviet Grand Strategy, 1939-1941
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2003
On June 22, 1941, just less than two years after signing the Nazi-Soviet Agreements, Adolf Hitler's German army invaded the Soviet Union. The attack hardly came as a surprise to Josef Stalin; in fact, history has long held that Stalin spent the two intervening years building up his defenses against...
Herdsman to Statesman
The Autobiography of Jamsrangiin Sambuu of Mongolia
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
This compelling autobiography encapsulates the profound changes that transformed the underdeveloped world in the twentieth century. Jamsrangiin Sambuu, born in 1895 to a herder family in a remote region of Mongolia, rose to become ambassador and eventually president of a haltingly industrialized and...
The Korean War
An International History
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
Although sixty-five years have passed since the armistice, the Korean conflict has never really ended. Tensions remain high on the peninsula as Washington and Pyongyang, as well as Seoul and Pyongyang, continue to face off. It is even more timely now to address the origins of the Korean War, the nature...
Exodus to North Korea
Shadows from Japan's Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2007
Ranging from Geneva to Pyongyang, this remarkable book takes readers on an odyssey through one of the most extraordinary forgotten tragedies of the Cold War: the "return" of over 90,000 people, most of them ethnic Koreans, from Japan to North Korea from 1959 onward. Presented to the world...
A History of Russia and Its Empire
From Mikhail Romanov to Vladimir Putin
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
This clear and focused text provides an introduction to imperial Russian and Soviet history from the crowning of Mikhail Romanov in 1613 to Vladimir Putin’s new term. Through a consistent chronological narrative, Kees Boterbloem considers the political, military, economic, social, religious, and...
Russian and Soviet History
From the Time of Troubles to the Collapse of the Soviet Union
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2008
An original and thought-provoking text, Russian and Soviet History uses noteworthy themes and important events from Russian history to spark classroom discussion. Consisting of twenty essays written by experts in each area, the book does not simply repeat the conventional themes found in nearly all...
This Great Struggle
America's Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2011
Referring to the war that was raging across parts of the American landscape, Abraham Lincoln told Congress in 1862, "We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope on earth." Lincoln recognized what was at stake in the American Civil War: not only freedom for 3.5 million slaves...
Jubal Early
Robert E. Lee's Bad Old Man
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
In Jubal Early: Robert E. Lee’s Bad Old Man, a new critical biography of Confederate Lieutenant General Jubal Anderson Early, Civil War historian B.F. Cooling III takes a fresh look at one of the most fascinating, idiosyncratic characters in the pantheon of Confederate heroes and villains. Dubbed...
Escape into Danger
The True Story of a Kievan Girl in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2011
Escape into Danger tells the remarkable story of a young girl’s perilous adventures and coming of age during World War II. Born in Kiev to a Catholic mother and a Jewish father, Sophia Williams chose to be identified as Jewish when she was eligible for a Soviet passport, mandatory at the age of...