University of Georgia Press, 1998. — 315 p. This study of the political, economic, and sociocultural relationship between the Dominican Republic and the United States follows its evolution from the middle of the nineteenth century to the mid-1990s. It deals with the interplay of these dimensions from each country's perspective and in both private and public interactions. From...
Routledge, 2014. — 293 p. First published in 1971. For the purpose of bringing forth to view these capabilities of Dominica, the following history of that island is submitted to this title. The author's chief inducement for writing this book was his hope, that it might be some small means of service to a country, in which he has spent several years of his life, and the...
Freedom Duke University Press, 2016. — 401 p. — ISBN: 0822362171, 9780822362173. In We Dream Together Anne Eller breaks with dominant narratives of conflict between the Dominican Republic and Haiti by tracing the complicated history of Dominican emancipation and independence between 1822 and 1865. Eller moves beyond the small body of writing by Dominican elites that often...
The University of Alabama Press, 1991. — 174 p. — ISBN: 0817304983, 9780817304980, 9780817382773. While most studies of intercultural contact focus on the impact of the intrusive power on the native culture, this book examines the effects of the colonization process on the Spaniards in the New World during the 16th century. The site of Puerto Real on the north coast of Haiti...
The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978. — 476 p. — ISBN: 0801820251, 9780801820250. An Outline of Dominican History from “Discovery” to the Death of Trujillo (30 May 1961). “Nicaraguization” or Democratization? From the Death of Trujillo (30 May 1961) to the Establishment of the Second Council of State ( 18 January 1962). The Provisional Government of the Council of State (18...
New York: Monthly Review Press, 1973. — 172 p. — ISBN: 0853452377, 9780853452379. Gutiérrez has produced a work of furor and exaggeration, wholly partisan and inclining toward harangue. The volume depicts the era of the two Balaguer administrations. It incorporates transcripts of interviews with Juan Bosch and the more important leaders of the various leftist sects, directs...
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2000. — 180 p. — (Contributions in Latin American Studies). — ISBN: 0313311277, 9780313311277. A study of the powerful impact that sugar had on U.S.-Dominican relations as the primary vehicle of reciprocal manipulation from 1958 to 1962, Sugar and Power examines the development of the sugar industry in the Dominican Republic. Hall uncovers new...
University of North Carolina Press, 1998. — 396 p. — ISBN: 0807824062, 9780807824061. Over the past several decades, the Dominican Republic has experienced striking political stagnation in spite of dramatic socioeconomic transformations. In this work, Jonathan Hartlyn offers a new explanation for the country's political evolution, based on a broad comparative perspective....
Monthly Review Press, 2015. — 424 p. — ISBN: 9781583675625, 9781583675632, 9781583675649. The Haitian Revolution, the product of the first successful slave revolt, was truly world-historic in its impact. When Haiti declared independence in 1804, the leading powers—France, Great Britain, and Spain—suffered an ignominious defeat and the New World was remade. The island revolution...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. — 249 p. — ISBN: 0230609538, 9780230609532. What is “authoritarian rule” and how can we best study it? Using the case of the twentieth-century Dominican southwest, this book investigates new ways of analyzing political authoritarianism. The Dominican Republic was ruled for several decades in the twentieth century by the dictator Rafael Trujillo and...
University Press of Florida, 2005. — 224 p. — ISBN: 081302823X, 9780813028231. Rafael Trujillo, dictator of the Dominican Republic from 1930 until his assassination in 1961, is still heavily mythologized among Dominicans to this day. God and Trujillo, the first book-length study of works about the Dominican dictator, seeks to explain how some of those myths were created by...
The University of North Carolina Press, 2005. — 256 p. — ISBN: 0807856363, 9780807856369, 0807829765. Combining intellectual and social history, Teresita Martínez-Vergne explores the processes by which people in the Dominican Republic began to hammer out a common sense of purpose and a modern national identity at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth...
University Press of Florida, 2014. — 211 p. This book examines how the Dominican Republic came to value being white over being black, especially given how many Dominicans are of African descent. Mayes looks at a seminal period of Dominican history, from the War of Restoration to the early decades of Trujillo's rule.
Palgrave Macmillan US, 2014. — 151 p. — ISBN: 978-1-349-46956-7, 978-1-137-35312-2, 978-1-137-35311-5. Measures and Initiatives Favoring Decentralization, 1994–2008. The Deep Roots and Local Consequences of Dominican Centralism. A Decentralizing Coalition Finds Political Leverage. Party Alliances, the Municipios, and Decentralization. Dominican Decentralization Moves toward...
University of Nebraska Press, 2004. — 283 p. The Militarization of Culture in the Dominican Republic, from the Captains General to General Trujillo traces the interaction of the military and the civilian population, showing the many ways in which the military ethos has permeated Dominican culture. Valentina Peguero categorizes the Dominican military before 1930 as protectionists,...
NYU Press, 2018. — 336 p. — (Nation of Nations: Immigrant History as American History). — ISBN: 9781479850457, 9781479867561. Using a blend of historical and literary analysis, Colonial Phantoms reveals how Western discourses have ghosted―miscategorized or erased―the Dominican Republic since the nineteenth century despite its central place in the architecture of the Americas....
Outskirts Press, 2021. — 274 p. A story of fratricidal rivalries, cruel confrontations and battles, unexpected betrayals, unlikely alliances, tragic decisions, and shared ideals. It's a story of slavery and race and how both so distinctively shaped each country. It is a story that contains copious historical material illuminated by passionate characters and powerful events in...
Rutgers University Press, 2016. — 200 p. — (Critical Caribbean Studies). — ISBN: 0813584493, 9780813584492. This book begins with a simple question: why do so many Dominicans deny the African components of their DNA, culture, and history? Seeking answers, Milagros Ricourt uncovers a complex and often contradictory Dominican racial imaginary. Observing how Dominicans have...
Duke University Press, 2003. — 561 p. Despite its significance in the history of Spanish colonialism, the Dominican Republic is familiar to most outsiders through only a few elements of its past and culture. Non-Dominicans may be aware that the country shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti and that it is where Christopher Columbus chose to build a colony. Some may know...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2016. — 394 p. The colony called Santo Domingo, which became the Dominican Republic, was the violent crucible in which the ingredients of the New World, drawn from America, Europe and Africa, were fused together for the first time: humans, religions, technologies, animals, plants and learned behaviors. The history of the Dominican Republic...
Palgrave Macmillan US, 2011. — IX, 227 p. — ISBN: 978-1-349-29207-3, 978-0-230-11721-1. The author analyzes and discusses the socio-historical meanings and implications of Pedro Henríquez Ureña's (1884-1946) writings on language. This important twentieth century Latin American intellectual is an unavoidable reference in Hispanic Linguistics and Cultural Studies.
Santo Domingo: Fundación de Crédito Educativo de la República Dominicana, 1972. — 406 p. Este estudio de la arqueología prehistórica de Santo Domingo, abarca únicamente esta isla, con todas las fallas de terreno que pudiesen presentarse, partiendo del fenómeno antillano como unidad, porque existen ya suficientes datos como para asegurar una continuidad cultural en todo el arco...
Santo Domingo: Museo del Hombre Dominicano; Fundación García Arrevalo, 1980. 100 p. (Serie Investigaciones Antropológicas № 16; Serie Investigaciones № 12). Marcio Veloz Maggiolo nació el 13 de agosto de 1936 en Santo Domingo. Estudió en la Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo en la que obtuvo, en 1961, el título de Licenciado en Filosofía y en la Universidad de Madrid en que...
Santo Domingo: Editoria de la Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo, 1976. — 312 p. — (Colección Historia y Sociedad No. 24). Marcio Veloz Maggiolo nació el 13 de agosto de 1936 en Santo Domingo. Estudió en la Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo en la que obtuvo, en 1961, el título de Licenciado en Filosofía y en la Universidad de Madrid en que alcanzó, en 1970, el grado de...
Santo Domingo: Editoria de la Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo, 1977. —234 p. — (Publicaciones de la Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo. Vol. CC; Colección Historia y Sociedad No. 30). Marcio Veloz Maggiolo nació el 13 de agosto de 1936 en Santo Domingo. Estudió en la Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo en la que obtuvo, en 1961, el título de Licenciado en Filosofía y...
Boson Books, 2002. — 126 p. "From Hitler to Trujillo" is a memoir by a Holocaust survivor Alfredo Vorshirm. His gripping story embodies the Jewish European experience during and after World War II and dramatizes the events that impelled Vorshirm to the Dominican Republic at the height of the Trujillo dictatorship. Living in Belgium rather than Germany, the country of his birth,...
Westview Press, 1992. — 196 p. Since the first edition of this critically acclaimed profile was published ten years ago, democratic government in the Dominican Republic has become more firmly established, if no less contentious, and the fragile economy, though still the definitive element in Dominican life, has benefited from changes in global trade patterns and corporate...
М.: ИЛА АН СССР, 1970. — 200 с. В книге рассказано о борьбе народа Доминиканской Республики за подлинную национальную независимость, за осуществление прогрессивных преобразований в 1930-60-е гг., о вмешательстве Соединенных Штатов Америки во внутренние дела государства.
М.: Международные отношения, 1969. — 264 с. Книга рассказывает об одной из позорнейших страниц в истории Соединенных Штатов Америки - оккупации Доминиканской Республики, начавшейся в апреле 1965 года, после того как народ этой многострадальной страны поднялся на борьбу за национальную независимость и демократию. На обширном фактическом материале авторы вскрывают тайные пружины,...
М.: Наука, 1980. — 121 с. B монографии показаны обстоятельства свержения диктаторского режима Трухильо, создание конституционного государства в годы правления президента Х. Боша (1962-1963 гг.), реакционный переворот 1963 г., народное восстание в апреле 1965 г. и последовавшие за ним гражданская война и американская интервенция. Особое внимание автор уделяет политической борьбе в...
М.: Русский Фонд Содействия Образованию и Науке, 2012. — 400 с. — ISBN 978-5-91244-086-1. Книга посвящена исследованию военной интервенции США в Доминиканскую республику в 1965 году. Рассматривается история Доминиканской республики, и ее отношения с Соединенными Штатами в период, предшествующий событиям 1965 года. Большое внимание уделяется изучению диктатуры Трухильо,...
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