This book analyzes how the Irish aptitude and ebullience for sport has manifested itself abroad in countries with large Irish communities. Tracing how some clung to the traditions of the…

Tragedies from the world of soccer are examined in one volume for the first time. Looking at the causes of the disasters and the lessons that can be learnt, this…

In Exporting the Rapture, Donald Akenson documents for the first time how the complex theological construction that has come to dominate modern evangelical thought was enhulled in an organizational system…

Tremendous philosophical, social, technological, and aesthetic revolutions overwhelmed those living in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This volume examines the manner in which writers employed the metaphor of the literary…