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Making history from the moment of her birth, England's Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) was a legend within her own lifetime. To her supporters, Elizabeth I was Gloriana, the Faerie Queene, a dignified and powerful woman who ruled with cunning and skill for forty-four years. To her detractors she was the ruthless supporter of a false religion; the ......
This second edition of Guttmann's critically acclaimed history discusses the intended and actual effects of the modern Olympic Games, from 1896 to 2000, recounting the memorable and significant athletic events of the Olympics in terms of their social and political impact.
Shaping Losses explores how traumatic loss affects identity and how those who are shaped by loss give shape, in turn, to the empty place where something--relationships, family, culture--was and is no longer. Taking the example of the decimation of European Jewry during the Nazi era, Shaping Losses confronts the problem of transforming trauma into ......
Ah, the Wild West! Wide open plains, beautiful sunsets, and thundering herds. Days when the cowboy was king, and good guys always wore white. The love affair with the American West has stood the test of time and survived competition from sports, electronic gadgets, and reality. Wanted Dead or Alive presents the first-ever comprehensive look at how ......
Holy wars, efforts to legislate biblical morality, sexual and financial misbehavior by ministers, new spiritual movements - these and other controversial religious phenomena make their way more and more frequently into what we read, hear, and see. Unsecular Media is the first comprehensive description and analysis of how the American news media ......
McKenna explicates key elements of the anthropology of Rene Girard and the literarytheory of Jacques Derrida in terms of each other--to create an interpretive strategy that hehopes will ''salvage deconstruction from the flashy sterility it favors.''
Lonnie Athens examines a problem that has long baffled experts and lay people alike: How does a person become a dangerous violent criminal? He explains how those who commit brutal crimes begin as relatively benign individuals who undergo lengthy, at times tortuous. development leading them to malevolence. The process that Athens labels ......
For this, their first collaborative work, two of the leading authorities on black history in America have joined with other top scholars in the field to create an essential volume on the major achievements of fifteen twentieth-century black leaders - nationalists and integrationists, the charismatic and the bureaucratic, men and women who came ......
