Patriarch and Folk : : The Emergence of Nicaragua, 1798-1858 / / E. Bradford Burns.

The painful sixty-year process that brought Nicaragua from colonial status to incipient nation-state is the focus of this fresh examination of inner struggle in a key isthmian country. E. Bradford Burns shows how Nicaragua's elite was able to consolidate control of the state and form a stable g...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: Complete eBook Package
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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]
©1991
Year of Publication:2013
Edition:Reprint 2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (307 p.) :; 6 halftones, 4 maps, 1 line illustration, 10 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • I. City-States: Rivalry Begets Anarchy
  • II. Father: The Patriarchal Nature of Society
  • III. Folk: The Popular Nature of Society
  • IV. Fatherland: Foreign Intervention and the Incipient Nation-State
  • Chronology
  • Notes
  • Index