Rowman Littlefield Publishers imprint: 5577 books
by Paul Varner
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
The Historical Dictionary of Romanticism in Literature provides a large overview of the Romantic Movement that seemed at the time to have swept across Europe from Russia to Germany and France, to Britain, and across the Atlantic to the United States. The Romantics saw themselves as inaugurating a...
by Robert Michael
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2005
A Concise History of American Antisemitism shows how Christianity's negative views of Jews pervaded American history from colonial times to the present. The book describes the European background to American anti-Semitism, then divides American history into time periods, and examines the anti-Semitic...
The New Era
American Thought and Culture in the 1920s
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011
In the 1920s, Americans talked of their times as “modern,” which is to say, fundamentally different, in pace and texture, from what went before—a new era. With the end of World War I, an array of dizzying inventions and trends pushed American society from the Victorian era into modernity.
The...
China's Transformations
The Stories beyond the Headlines
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2006
This successor volume to China beyond the Headlines takes the reader even farther beyond the "front stage" to explore a China few Westerners have seen. The contributors argue that the great gap between what specialists understand and the general public believes has led to distorted and potentially...
Contemporary China
Between Mao and Market
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
This overview of Chinese politics, economy, and society by a leading scholar offers a deeply informed assessment of China’s last decade—its debates and political infighting, its rising and assertive international profile, and the forceful initiatives taken by Xi Jinping, who is proving to be China’s...
The Resurgence of Anti-Semitism
Jews, Israel, and Liberal Opinion
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2006
Recently, Jewish voices have begun to warn against a 'new anti-Semitism' fueled by moral concerns about Israel. Opponents have retorted that opposition to 'Zionism' is by no means anti-Semitic. This book, by a non-Jewish analytic philosopher, assesses the relative merits of these opposed views and...
Gendered Media
Women, Men, and Identity Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
Gendered Media addresses the broad topic of gender and media, where 'gender' is not simply a shorthand for 'woman' but also embraces masculinitiy/ies, queer, lesbian and gay identities. Karen Ross provides the necessary historical context against which to read recent sex- and gender-based media phenomena...
The Reporter Who Knew Too Much
Harrison Salisbury and the New York Times
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
During his career at The New York Times, Harrison Salisbury served as the bureau chief in post-World War II Moscow and reported from Hanoi during the Vietnam War, and in retirement witnessed the Tiananmen Square massacre firsthand. Davis and Trani's engaging biography of the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning...
Buddhism, Diplomacy, and Trade
The Realignment of India–China Relations, 600–1400
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
Relations between China and India underwent a dramatic transformation from Buddhist-dominated to commerce-centered exchanges in the seventh to fifteenth centuries. The unfolding of this transformation, its causes, and wider ramifications are examined in this masterful analysis of the changing patterns...
Confucius
The Man and the Way of Gongfu
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Through a systematic introduction of Confucius as a historical figure, a spiritual leader, a philosopher, a political reformer, an educator, and a person, this book offers a comprehensive, lucid, and in-depth articulation of Confucius and his teachings for Western students. It explains how his ideas...
John Rawls
Liberalism and the Challenges of Late Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Donald Moon’s John Rawls: Liberalism and the Challenges of Late Modernity adds an accessible biography of an indispensable political thinker to the Modernity and Political Thought Series, edited by profs. Kennan Ferguson and Morton Schoolman. By addressing the philosophical justifications and conditions...
Heidegger's Being and Time
Critical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2005
Heidegger's Being and Time: Critical Essays provides a variety of recent studies of Heidegger's most important work. Twelve prominent scholars, representing diverse nationalities, generations, and interpretive approaches deal with general methodological and ontological questions, particular issues...
A Nietzschean Bestiary
Becoming Animal Beyond Docile and Brutal
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2003
Inspired by the ancient and medieval genre, A Nietzschean Bestiary gathers essays treating the most vivid and lively animal images in one of the philosophic tradition's greatest bodies of work. Leading scholars treat specific animals—such as the prowling beast of prey, Zarathustra's laughing lions,...
Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals
Critical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2006
This astonishingly rich volume collects the work of an international group of scholars, including some of the best known in academia. Experts in ethics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, political theory, aesthetics, history, critical theory, and hermeneutics bring to light the best philosophical...