Rowman Littlefield Publishers imprint: 5577 books
by Eric Williams
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
In his influential and widely debated Capitalism and Slavery, Eric Williams examined the relation of capitalism and slavery in the British West Indies. Binding an economic view of history with strong moral argument, his study of the role of slavery in financing the Industrial Revolution refuted traditional...
Insurgency and Counterinsurgency
A Global History
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
This timely book offers a world history of insurgencies and of counterinsurgency warfare. Jeremy Black moves beyond the conventional Western-centric narrative, arguing that it is crucial to ground contemporary experiences in Afghanistan and Iraq in a global framework. Reaching back to antiquity to...
Mass-Mediated Terrorism
Mainstream and Digital Media in Terrorism and Counterterrorism
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
With all new and expanded chapters, the third edition provides an in-depth look at how terrorists exploit mass media to get attention, spread fear and anxiety among the targets of this sort of violence, and threaten further attacks. The traditional news media’s appetite for shocking, sensational,...
Kennedy and the Berlin Wall
"A Hell of a Lot Better than a War"
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2009
The Berlin Wall Crisis dominated the presidency of John F. Kennedy from his inauguration in 1961 until his historic trip to the city in June 1963. W.R. Smyser's Kennedy and the Berlin Wall offers new insights into the Berlin events that riveted global attention, especially as Soviet and American tanks...
The Obama Question
A Progressive Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
The election of Barack Obama to the presidency in 2008 was hailed by many as a historic event and by some as the end of the Reagan era in American politics. But conservatives have condemned Obama from the beginning of his presidency, and many progressives charge that Obama has betrayed the causes...
by Michael J. Pomante II, Scot Schraufnagel
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2014
The Historical Dictionary of the Barack Obama Administration covers the history of his life and his presidency through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and a bibliography. The dictionary section has over 200 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, including the president,...
Broken
Can the Senate Save Itself and the Country?
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
While the hyper-partisanship in Washington that has stunned the world has been building for decades, Ira Shapiro argues that the U.S. Senate has suffered most acutely from the loss of its political center.
In Broken, Ira Shapiro, a former senior Senate staffer and author of the critically-acclaimed...
Thomas Jefferson
Westward the Course of Empire
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1998
This biography of one of America's greatest political figures focuses on Thomas Jefferson's role as a maker of foreign policy. Although he was not the sole formulator of American diplomacy, Jefferson's voice was the most pervasive in the first generation of the republic's history. This text explores...
Red Line
American Foreign Policy in a Time of Fractured Politics and Failing States
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Over the past quarter century, four consecutive American presidents—two Democrat, two Republican—have spent more time, diplomatic capital, and military resources on Iraq than any other country in the world. Much as the Vietnam syndrome cast a long shadow over American security policy in the decades...
by Cynthia Grabo
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
This new and final edition is a follow-up to the author’s first book, Anticipating Surprise (University Press of America, 2002) and the Handbook of Warning Intelligence (Scarecrow Press, 2010). The first book was an abridged version of Grabo’s 1972 manuscript, of which only 200 pages were allowed...
by Paul Rexton Kan
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2016
Global drug trafficking intersects with a vast array of international security issues ranging from war and terrorism to migration and state stability. More than just another item on the international security agenda, drug trafficking in fact exacerbates threats to national and international security....
Rebooting American Politics
The Internet Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
Going beyond theory and guess based forecasts; this book systematically explores and measures the implications of the growing use of the internet in the American political landscape. Using current election data, the authors specifically challenge the predominant conjecture that the impact of new technology...
by C. Eugene Steuerle
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
C. Eugene Steuerle, one of the country's most influential economists, offers an insider's look at tax policy based on a quarter century of working with officials of all political stripes. Steuerle outlines the principles of taxation and the early postwar period before proceeding to the tax policy...
The Keys to the White House
A Surefire Guide to Predicting the Next President
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2008
With The Keys to the White House: A Surefire Guide to Predicting the Next President, average citizens are giving the pollsters and pundits a run for their money. In this book, prominent political analyst and historian Allan J. Lichtman presents thirteen historical factors, or "keys" (four...