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The Second Gilded Age: The Great Reaction in the United States, 1973-2001 by Michael McHugh 9780761834526
RRP: £51.00£44.26This work presents a general history of economics, politics, culture, crime, and race during the long conservative era of the last three decades in the United States. It also offers a comparison with the first Gilded Age in the late 19th century and the... -
Herbert Hoover, Unemployment, and the Public Sphere: A Conceptual History, 1919-1933 by Vincent H. Gaddis 9780761832348
RRP: £72.00£62.81Herbert Hoover, Unemployment, and the Public Sphere examines the fulfillment of Hoover's ideas in the area of unemployment between 1919 and 1933. The economic system Herbert Hoover envisioned, one based on cooperation and individual initiative with... -
Global Americans: A History of the United States, Volume 1 by Laura Belmonte 9780357799673
£73.15America�s national experience and collective history have always been subject to transnational forces and affected by global events and conditions. In recognition of this reality, Montoya/Belmonte/Guarneri/Hackel/Hartigan-O'Connor/Kurashige's GLOBAL... -
Postmodern Anarchism by Lewis Call 9780739105221
RRP: £88.00£76.47Delving into the anarchist writings of Nietzsche, Foucault, and Baudrillard, and exploring the cyberpunk fiction of William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, theorist Lewis Call examines the new philosophical current where anarchism meets postmodernism. This... -
Africans at Home and in the United States: One People, One Problem, One Destiny by Emeka C. Anaedozie 9781793634887
RRP: £30.00£26.68In Africans at Home and in the United States: One People, One Problem, One Destiny, Emeka C. Anaedozie examines Pan-African cultural and intellectual history, focusing on sociocultural commonalities and challenges facing African people. To this end, Dr... -
The Struggle for Soviet Jewry in American Politics: Israel versus the American Jewish Establishment by Fred A. Lazin 9780739113431
RRP: £44.00£38.33Until 1989 most Soviet Jews wanting to immigrate to the United States left on visas for Israel via Vienna. In Vienna, with the assistance of American aid organizations, thousands of Soviet Jews transferred to Rome and applied for refugee entry into the... -
Karl Marx and the Future of the Human by Cyril Smith 9780739110263
RRP: £95.00£82.45In this excellent study of Karl Marx's thought, Cyril Smith takes a long and winding route that starts with classical world thought. When he arrives at the door to Marx's pantheon we see that, with the significant yet largely overlooked example of... -
Iran: Between Tradition and Modernity by Ramin Jahanbegloo 9780739105290
RRP: £105.00£90.99The Iranian Revolution represented to intellectuals and professionals the potential of spiritual values to triumph over the great power of economic imperialism. Yet out of this revolution has emerged an identity crisis that touches Islamic ideological... -
Hinterlands and Horizons: Excursions in Search of Amity by Margaret Chatterjee 9780739103975
RRP: £78.00£67.93Margaret Chatterjee's new work Hinterlands and Horizons-a collection of nine phenomenological essays ranging across cultures and time periods-studies the historical and cultural evolution of the idea of amity and the concomitant concepts of fraternity,... -
A History of Grambling State University by Mildred B.G. Gallot 9780819146489
RRP: £58.00£50.19Traces the emergence and establishment of Grambling State University as one of the nation's best-known black institutions. Reveals the ongoing problems the university has faced, including disparities in funding between black and white institutions,... -
Authority in the Church: An Ecumenical Reflection on Hermeneutic Boundaries and Their Implications for Inter-Church Relations by R. Keelan Downton 9780761834243
RRP: £45.00£39.18This work examines the nature of authority in the Christian Church through analysis of major reform movements of the 16th Century and major ecumenical documents of the 20th Century. Authority in the Church begins with a probing historical analysis of... -
The Concept of the Foreign: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue by Rebecca Saunders 9780739104095
RRP: £42.00£36.64The Concept of the Foreign investigates the diverse and consequential uses of the concept of the foreign-a formidable and hitherto untheorized force in everyday discourse and practice. This highly original work-whose experimental nature moves beyond... -
Ireland in the War Years 39-45 by Joseph T. Carroll 9781573091855
RRP: £65.00£56.12This is a revision of the first full length book about Ireland and Irish neutrality during the Second World War. It describes how Mr. De Valera carried out a policy of neutrality in spit of the fact that Southern Ireland was a Dominion and that Northern... -
Oil and the Killing of the American Consul in Tehran by Mohammad Gholi Majd 9780761835059
RRP: £55.00£47.65Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Nigeria's Urban History: Past and Present by Hakeem Ibikunle Tijani 9780761834335
RRP: £47.00£40.87Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Philosophy, History, and Myth: Essays and Talks by Peter Loptson 9780761822912
RRP: £58.00£50.19Philosophy, History, and Myth is a collection of essays that were originally delivered as academic lectures. The essays are relatively informal explorations of topics in the history of philosophy (Reid and common sense; the unity of eighteenth-century... -
The Cosmopolitan Evolution: Travel, Travel Narratives, and the Revolution of the Eighteenth-Century European Consciousness by Matthew W. Binney 9780761834144
RRP: £78.00£67.93Critical works such as Srinivas Aravamudan's Tropicopolitans (1999) and Edward Said's Orientalism (1979) study the influence of Europe upon the colonized and also how the colonized resist its over-generalizing and oppressive drive; but, these and other... -
The Theory, Not the Theorist: The Case of Karl Marx by Rodger Beehler 9780761834038
RRP: £38.00£33.25The Theory, Not the Theorist recovers Karl Marx's social thought from the uncongenial embrace of "Marxism." In order to do this, author Rodger Beehler first establishes that the explanation of historical change implicit in Marx's investigations... -
Superfluous People: A Reflection on Hannah Arendt and Evil by Cornelis van Hattem 9780761833048
RRP: £78.00£67.93Superfluous People describes Hannah Arendt's political and philosophical views on Nazi totalitarianism and the Shoah. In her contemplation of evil, Arendt initially spoke of the Shoah as a "radical evil," a term used by Kant. However, unlike... -
A Political Dynasty in North Idaho, 1933-1967: Compton White, Sr. & Compton White, Jr. by Randall Doyle 9780761828426
RRP: £38.00£33.25This is the story of the White family, who moved to Idaho at the time of statehood and served northern Idaho from the dark days of the Great Depression to the tense years of the Vietnam War in the United States Congress. The book includes a foreword by... -
The Genocidal Temptation: Auschwitz, Hiroshima, Rwanda, and Beyond by Robert S. Frey 9780761827436
RRP: £51.00£44.26The fact that Auschwitz, Hiroshima, and Rwanda cast ominous shadows forward into the future compels us to confront these horrific results of the human head, heart, and hand. In Genocidal Temptation, Robert Frey presents a compelling, integrated focus... -
War, Politics and Diplomacy: The Anglo-Prussian Alliance, 1756-1763 by Karl W. Schweizer 9780761820956
RRP: £74.00£64.52Based on hitherto unused manuscript material, War, Politics and Diplomacy examines the origin, development and collapse of the Anglo-Prussian alliance against the complex backdrop of European politics during the Seven Years War (1756-63). Unlike earlier... -
From the Margins of Globalization: Critical Perspectives on Human Rights by Neve Gordon 9780739108772
RRP: £109.00£94.81"Either you are with us or you are with the Terrorists!" President Bush exclaimed in a joint session of Congress ten days after the September 11 attacks. Even though the war on terrorism and the discourse surrounding it were ostensibly... -
The Formation of the Uzbek Nation-State: A Study in Transition by Anita Sengupta 9780739106181
RRP: £121.00£105.06Within one century the Uzbek state was formed twice: once when it was 'created' as the Soviet Socialist Republic of Uzbekistan in the post revolution period and then again when it was reborn as the sovereign Uzbek Republic after the dissolution of the... -
Reading the Twentieth Century: Documents in American History by Donald W. Whisenhunt 9780742564763
RRP: £127.00£110.18Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Rethinking the Anthropology of Islam: Dynamics of Change in Muslim Societies. In Honour of Roman Loimeier by Katja Föllmer 9783111302263
£98.30The contributions of this volume discuss the broad field of transformation processes in Muslim societies from different perspectives with various disciplinary approaches. Apart from methodological questions the authors investigate religious and social... -
African-American Voices in Young Adult Literature: Tradition, Transition, Transformation by Karen Patricia Smith 9780810842724
RRP: £85.00£73.91New in paperback! Winner of the 1996 G.K. Hall Award and Multicultural Review's 1995 Carey McWilliams Award. Paperback edition available 2002. 'Designed to be used by librarians and teachers exploring works written by and for African Americans...a... -
Richard B. Morris and American History in the Twentieth Century by Philip Ranlet 9780761829171
RRP: £47.00£40.87Richard B. Morris, an internationally known early American scholar, was a historian at both City College of New York and Columbia University. Morris' dissertation, Studies in the History of American Law, helped establish American legal history as a field... -
South Africa: Political Environment, Ethnicity and Race by Nathaniel Perry 9781389441189
RRP: £24.69£21.53Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
A Central European Synthesis of Radical and Magisterial Reform: The Sacramental Theology of Balthasar Hubmaier by Kirk R. MacGregor 9780761834618
RRP: £54.00£46.80Challenging the widespread classification of evangelical theologian Balthasar Hubmaier (1480-1528) as a Schleitheim-adhering Anabaptist, this book argues that Hubmaier should instead be understood as a bridge between the Radical and Magisterial branches... -
Tears of Zion: Divided We Stand by Ya'acov Liberman 9780761834571
RRP: £35.00£30.71To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles please visit us at www.rowmanlittlefield.com.Book InformationISBN 9780761834571Author Ya'acov LibermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint University Press of AmericaPublisher University Press... -
The Patriotic Business of Seeking Office: James K. Polk and the Patronage by John Devoti 9780761834519
RRP: £35.00£30.71Historically, James K. Polk is described as a spoilsman who appointed officers based upon their party affiliation rather than their qualifications. This book, however, asserts that Polk merely followed an existing pattern of nomination that dated back to... -
Civil Wars and Coups d'Etat in West Africa: An Attempt to Understand the Roots and Prescribe Possible Solutions by Issaka K. Souare 9780761834250
RRP: £47.00£40.87Working from a thematic, empirical-analytical approach, this work surveys the root causes of civil wars and military coups d'etat in West Africa, analyzes the implications for the region as a whole, and identifies possible solutions to these armed... -
Kennedy and Macmillan: Cold War Politics by David Brandon Shields 9780761834069
RRP: £51.00£44.26The relationship between President John F. Kennedy and Prime Minister Harold Macmillan was a complex factor in the creation of Anglo-American foreign policies in the early 1960's. Kennedy and Macmillan offers a systematic account of this personal... -
Toward a Christian Conception of History by M. C. Smit 9780761821403
RRP: £98.00£85.41Meyer Cornelis Smit (1918-1981) taught history and philosophy in the Free University at Amsterdam for a quarter century. Toward a Christian Conception of History presents the harvest of his scholarly output. The relation between God and history and the... -
African and Africa-Related Nobel Prize Winners: Portraitures in Excellence by Uju Nkwocha Afulezi 9780761821021
RRP: £71.00£61.70In African and Africa-Related Nobel Prize Winners, Uju Nkwocha Afulezi and Ugochukwu Uju Afulezi present the first assembled information on African and Africa-related Nobel Prize winners. The information presented reveals what made these individuals... -
Inside the House: Former Members Reveal How Congress Really Works by Lou Frey 9780761819370
RRP: £45.00£39.18This is the first book that looks at how the U.S. House of Representatives really works, by drawing on the insights and experiences of former members. Chapters address every aspect of life in the House, from running for Congress to the impact on family... -
Fight or Be Slaves: The History of the Oakland-East Bay Labor Movement by Albert Vetere Lannon 9780761818694
RRP: £56.00£48.49The Oakland-East Bay labor movement has been overshadowed for far too long by attention to San Francisco. The East Bay has a rich, militant and surprisingly independent history. Fight or Be Slaves, the title taken from a statement by C.L. Dellums,... -
The Deconstitutionalization of America: The Forgotten Frailties of Democratic Rule by Roger M. Barrus 9780739108352
RRP: £37.00£32.40In The Deconstitutionalization of America: The Forgotten Frailties of Democratic Rule, Roger M. Barrus and his coauthors embark on a discussion of American democracy from the nineteenth century to the present day. The present paradox democracy finds... -
Middle America: A Culture History of Heartland and Frontiers by Mary W. Helms 9780819122308
RRP: £66.00£56.96Originally published by Prentice-Hall in 1975.Book InformationISBN 9780819122308Author Mary W. HelmsFormat PaperbackPage Count 367Imprint University Press of AmericaPublisher University Press of AmericaWeight(grams) 567g