An electrifying read, Secrecy is the culmination of decades of Urban’s reflections on a vexed, ever-present subject.Ī Secret Society History of the Civil War With Secrecy, Urban investigates several revealing instances of the power of secrecy in religion, including nineteenth-century Scottish Rite Freemasonry, the sexual magic of a Russian-born Parisian mystic the white supremacist Brüder Schweigen or “Silent Brotherhood” movement of the 1980s, the Five Percenters, and the Church of Scientology. In this bracing, new work, Hugh Urban wants us to focus these same powers of observation on the role of secrecy in religion. We have become accustomed to thinking about secrecy in political terms and personal privacy terms. Witness the twin terrors of a president who refuses to disclose dealings with foreign powers while the private data of ordinary citizens is stolen and marketed in order to manipulate consumer preferences and voting outcomes. The powers of political secrecy and social spectacle have been taken to surreal extremes recently. Secrecy and Cultural Reality: Utopian Ideologies of the New Guinea Men's House
Fine Boys is a chronicle of time, not just in Nigeria, but also for its budding post-Biafran generation. In his trademark witty, colloquial style, critically acclaimed author Eghosa Imasuen presents everyday Nigerian life against the backdrop of the pro-democracy riots of the 1980s and 1990s, the lost hopes of June 12 (Nigeria’s Democracy Day), and the terror of the Abacha years. But when university strikes begin and ruthlessly violent confraternities unleash mayhem on their campus, Ewaen and his new friends must learn to adapt-or risk becoming the confras' next unwilling recruits. They hang out in parking lots, trading gibes in pidgin and English and discovering the pleasures that freedom affords them. When Ewaen is admitted to the University of Benin, he makes new friends who, like him, are excited about their newfound independence. Library of Congress PR9387.9.I47F56 2021 | Dewey Decimal 823.92Ī coming-of-age tale told from the perspective of Nigeria’s Generation X, caught amid the throes of a nascent pro-democracy movement, demoralizing corruption, and campus violence.Įwaen is a Nigerian teenager, bored at home in Warri and eager to flee from his parents’ unhappy marriage and incessant quarreling. Destined to be a true crime classic, Blood Runs Green is an enthralling tale of a murder that captivated the world and reverberated through society long after the coffin closed.
She draws on real-life accounts and sources from the United States, Ireland, and Britain to cast new light on Clan na Gael and reveal how Irish republicanism swept across the United States. It is also the story of a booming immigrant population clamoring for power at a time of unprecedented change.įrom backrooms to courtrooms, historian Gillian O’Brien deftly navigates the complexities of Irish Chicago, bringing to life a rich cast of characters and tracing the spectacular rise and fall of the secret Irish American society Clan na Gael.
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It is a story of hotheaded journalists in pursuit of sensational crimes, of a bungling police force riddled with informers and spies, and of a secret revolutionary society determined to free Ireland but succeeding only in tearing itself apart. Cronin, was a respected Irish physician, but his brutal murder uncovered a web of intrigue, secrecy, and corruption that stretched across the United States and far beyond.īlood Runs Green tells the story of Cronin’s murder from the police investigation to the trial. On May 26, 1889, four thousand mourners proceeded down Michigan Avenue, followed by a crowd forty thousand strong, in a howl of protest at what commentators called one of the ghastliest and most curious crimes in civilized history.
It was the biggest funeral Chicago had seen since Lincoln’s.
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