This book is a study in religion, culture, and social change. Taking the position that death is a cultural event, James J. Farrell examines the historical roots

DEATH, AMERICAN STYLE: A CULTURAL HISTORY OF DYING IN AMERICA is the first comprehensive cultural history to explore America’s uneasy relationship with death

Wars do not fully end when the shooting stops. As G. Kurt Piehler reveals in this book, after every conflict from the Revolution to the Persian Gulf War, Americ

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In the United States today many people are as likely to identify themselves by their ethnicity or region as by their nationality. In this country with its diver