Books published by Rowman & Littlefield

Many historians condemn our nation's founders as hypocrites who failed to live up to their own enlightened principles. Political scientist Thomas West debunks numerous myths and demonstrates why our founders were indeed sincere in their belief of universal human rights and in their commitment to democracy.

Paying special attention to the Romantic poets from Wordsworth and Coleridge down to Pound and Eliot, Marion Montgomgery explores the disorientation of image and methaphor for reality. Two species of "romanticism" emerge: that of the poet and that of the scientist.

This text presents two critical views on religion in politics. Whilst Audi argues that citizens in a democracy should distinguish religious and secular considerations, Wolterstorff responds that religious elements are appropriate and indispensable for the vitality of a pluralistic democracy.

The second volume of collected essays by Ernest Fortin deals with the relationship between religion and civil society in a Christian context. Sections include natural law, natural rights and social justice and Augustine and Aquinas on Christianity and politics.

In this radical reinterpretation of Aristotle's Metaphysics, Walter E. Wehrle demonstrates that developmental theories of Aristotle are based on a faulty assumption: that the fifth chapter of Categories ("substance") is an early theory of metaphysics that Aristotle later abandoned.

Providing a study of Cuban migration to the United States, this work analyses its political dynamics and character. It extends the discussion with an examination of the Bush and Clinton administrations' responses to recent events in Cuba.

This collection of essays develops the theory of social groups as "plural subjects". Gilbert argues that one must go beyond the prevailing "game theoretic" picture of people acting as independent individuals, to incorporate them as plural subjects bound together by joint commitments.

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Seeking a way out of today's bewildering rush of rights claims, Tara Smith offers here a systematic account of the nature and foundations of rights. The book shows what political freedom is and demonstrates why it should be protected by rights.

Demonstrates the crucial role that the urban masses played in shaping political change as Mexico struggled to become a stable, independent nation state in the nineteenth century. The author examines the political world of Mexico.

In the spring of 1864, as the armies of Grant and Lee waged a highly scrutinized and celebrated battle for the state of Virginia, a no-less important, but historically obscured engagement was being conducted in the pine barrens of northern Louisiana.

A collection of short biographies of ordinary Japanese men and women, most of them unknown outside their family and locality, whose lives collectively span the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

The figure of Juan Manuel de Rosas dominates the history of Argentina in the first half of the 19th century. This work studies the forces which made and sustained Rosas, and examines the roots of the caudillo tradition in Argentina through exploring his career.

The anti- Vietnam War movement marked the first time in American history that record numbers marched and protested to an antiwar tune. The author describes the origins and trajectory of the anti-Vietnam War movement in America. He also focuses on the way it affected policy and public opinion.

More than 800 men lost their lives and 2,700 were wounded. Confederate General Thomas J Jackson earned his legendary nickname Stonewall here.

The Civil War was undeniably an integral event in American history, but for African Americans, whose personal liberties were dependent upon its outcome, it was an especially critical juncture.

Probes into the life and times of Mario Moreno, Latin America's famous film star from the 1940s to the 1970s. This book illuminates the social and cultural history of twentieth-century Mexico. It is suitable for courses on Mexican history and Latin American film.

Broaches themes such as culture, politics, impenetrable tension and post-1945 America.

In the winter of 1909, a political bombshell exploded in tsarist Russia. Scandal swept not only the empire but the entire world with the exposure of the secret life of one man. Newspaper headlines introduced him as a twentieth-century Judas.

Assesses James G Blaine's role as an architect of empire and revisits the ambitious imperialistic goals of this two-time secretary of state.

Presents information on child abuse in which children are killed.

This is an account of the settlement of the Maine and Oregon boundary disputes between the US and England during the 1840s. The country's success with England in resolving the dispute, marked the dawn of America's new age of expansion. This may be of value to students and history enthusiasts.

The Mothers began in the 1970s as a group of housewives visiting prisons and barracks in search of their missing children. This book traces the history of the Mothers, their current agenda and their continuing struggle to bring the murderers of their children to justice.

Reading Their Way is a guide to a balanced literacy instruction program that incorporates research-based components and utilizes the best of the phonics and whole language approaches.

Palestini advances a new theory of educational leadership seen through the dual lens of critical theory and the Ignatian vision and its practical implications. A truly novel approach, the author strives to acquiant administrators and students of educational administration with a different way of thinking about education and its administration.

Anger can be directly linked to violence, health problems and interpersonal difficulty. Using the Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) model, this text shows how teachers and counsellors can encourage students to acknowledge and change feelings that are causing problems in their lives.

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