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The Everyday Nation-State
After Nicaragua achieved independence from Spain in 1821, it suffered a series of conflicts culminating in the two-year National War. When that war ended in 1857, Nicaragua was in ruins. The Everyday Nation-State explores what followed: the intersection of nation-state formation and everyday life in nineteenth-century Nicaragua. Rather than focus on the invented traditions of anthems, marches, and memorials that convey and reproduce an established sense of national identity and belonging, this work analyzes how such feelings emerged in the struggles of local communities over political authority, identity, and legitimacy. Based on extensive research of court cases, land registries, census mat...
The Spiritual Rococo
A groundbreaking approach to Rococo religious d?r and spirituality in Europe and South America, The Spiritual Rococo addresses three basic conundrums that impede our understanding of eighteenth-century aesthetics and culture. Why did the Rococo, ostensibly the least spiritual style in the pre-Modern canon, transform into one of the world?s most important modes for adorning sacred spaces? And why is Rococo still treated as a decadent nemesis of the Enlightenment when the two had fundamental characteristics in common? This book seeks to answer these questions by treating Rococo as a global phenomenon for the first time and by exploring its moral and spiritual dimensions through the lens of pop...
Diary of a Hustler
Diary of a Hustler takes place in Philadelphia. It's a story about a street dealer named Nicholas Brown Jr. (aka Nickle Brown, or "Nickles") who has been raised in the drug world by his father – Nicholas Brown Sr. (aka Brown), who is an infamous legend to the drug world. After his father's death, Nickles took over the business. Now becoming a legend himself, he faces the same troubles and problems that his father faced. Nickles, however, thinks that he can manage the balance of the good in him versus the evil underworld he deals with in the streets, only to learn that it is a difficult task. Love, loyalty, money, enemies, and family become tangled in his quest to stay alive and protect it all.
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First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
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