Background
Zaller, Robert Michael was born on March 19, 1940 in New York City. Son of Abraham Morris and Sylvia (Borenstein) Zaller.
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Discourse of Legitimacy in Early Modern England is a study of the structures of authority in England between the beginning of the English Reformation in 1529 and the outbreak of the Civil War of the 1640s. These structures, both secular and sacred, were profoundly affected by the creation of a national Protestant church governed by the crown; by the emerging sense of national consciousness and providential destiny that followed in its wake; by the development of a legal culture that defined and sometimes contested the parameters of authority; by an urban state that articulated a new civic culture and reflected broad political, social, and religious tensions; and by the growing sophistication and assertiveness of Parliament, the capstone both of elite interest and popular legitimacy, and ultimately the site of resistance to claims of unfettered royal and ecclesiastical power. Together, these elements constituted the discourse of legitimacy through which the daily transactions of power in Tudor and early Stuart England were disputed, mediated, and sometimes resisted. They both expressed and contained the tensions of a rapidly changing society, and were finally the theaters on which its irreconcilable conflicts were enacted as social and political consensus broke down. The Discourse of Legitimacy presents a wide-ranging, synoptic view of England's political culture and its conflicts in the crucial period between its two greatest revolutions.
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The Cliffs of Solitude offers a comprehensive assessment of the career of one of America's most neglected major poets, Robinson Jeffers. Jeffers' reputation, once one of the most substantial in American letters, was founded chiefly on the publication of 'Tamar' (1924) and the other verse narratives of the California coast that followed it in the next two decades. Most previous studies have cast no more than a backward glance at the considerable body of work that preceded 'Tamar', much of which was presumed to be lost. The recent recovery of major portions of Jeffers' verse drama 'The Alpine Christ', however, as well as a significant quantity of other early material, compels reassessment of this phase of his career and casts the mature poetry in a radically altered light. Such an attempt is particularly timely now that the rhetoric of modernist criticism, which tended for so long to obscure the scope and importance of Jeffers' achievement, has itself receded into the historical record.
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"Civilizations of the West, Second Edition," provides a comprehensive discussion of Western civilization that places special emphasis on social, cultural, and intellectual history. The text emphasizes the connection between Western Civilization and the period&039>s other great world civilizations.
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Zaller, Robert Michael was born on March 19, 1940 in New York City. Son of Abraham Morris and Sylvia (Borenstein) Zaller.
Bachelor, Queens College City University of New York, 1960. Master of Arts, Washington University, 1963. Doctor of Philosophy, Washington University, 1968.
Visiting assistant professor University California, Santa Barbara, 1968-1969. Assistant professor to professor University Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, 1972-1987. Professor history Drexel University, Philadelphia, since 1987.
Advisory board Yale Center for Parliamentary History, 1983-1995, editorial board 1997-2003, Albion Journal, 1992-1997.
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("Civilizations of the West, Second Edition," provides a c...)
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Board directors Pennsylvanians United to Abolish the Death Penalty, since 2000. Fellow Royal History Society. Member North America Conference on British Studies, American History Association, Robinson Jeffers Association (advisory board 1992-1995, president 1997-2000).
Married Lili Bita, January 19, 1968. Children: Philip (deceased), Kimon.