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- Dominican Republic Reader : History, Culture, Politics
- Publication Name
- The Dominican Republic Reader
- Title
- The Dominican Republic Reader
- Subtitle
- History, Culture, Politics
- Contributor
- Lauren H. Derby (Edited by)
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0822357003
- EAN
- 9780822357001
- ISBN
- 9780822357001
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Genre
- Travel, History, Social Science
- Topic
- Caribbean & West Indies, Customs & Traditions, Caribbean & West Indies / General
- Release Date
- 23/05/2014
- Release Year
- 2014
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 1.2in
- Item Length
- 9.2in
- Item Weight
- 28.9 Oz
- Series
- Latin America Readers
- Publication Year
- 2014
- Item Width
- 6.1in
- Number of Pages
- 560 Pages
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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 that the country produces talented baseball players and musicians; others that it is a prime destination for beach vacations. Little else about the Dominican Republic is common knowledge outside its borders. This Reader seeks to change that. It provides an introduction to the history, politics, and culture of the country, from precolonial times into the early twenty-first century. Among the volume's 118 selections are essays, speeches, journalism, songs, poems, legal documents, testimonials, and short stories, as well as several interviews conducted especially for this Reader. Many of the selections have been translated into English for the first time. All of them are preceded by brief introductions written by the editors. The volume's eighty-five illustrations, ten of which appear in color, include maps, paintings, and photos of architecture, statues, famous figures, and Dominicans going about their everyday lives.
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Publisher
Duke University Press
ISBN-10
0822357003
ISBN-13
9780822357001
eBay Product ID (ePID)
172178133
Product Key Features
Book Title
Dominican Republic Reader : History, Culture, Politics
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Caribbean & West Indies, Customs & Traditions, Caribbean & West Indies / General
Publication Year
2014
Genre
Travel, History, Social Science
Number of Pages
560 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
28.9 Oz
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F1938
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Roorda, Derby, and Gonzlez use source materials from onsite actors/observers, government officials, writers, and intellectuals (Dominican and otherwise) to add an intimacy and sense of familiarity to the book's narrative. They blend and merge important and formative events and actors that make up the formal history of the Dominican Republic with accounts designed to help readers understand the Dominican character and bases for social norms. The dozens of essays and accounts (some from contributors more familiar to casual readers, some less familiar), with an appropriate apportioning of emphases on nations influential in Dominican affairs (such as the US), complete a historiography that is both challenging and insightful. In a collection of different tiles in the Dominican mosaic, nothing is really trivial here. Highly Recommended. Upper-level undergraduates and above., "This is a unique reader that brings together essential historical documents with insightful essays and studies by a select group of outstanding scholars at the frontline of Dominican studies, a recent special field in contemporary Latin American studies. A very welcome arrival for college and graduate courses. Congratulations!"-- Frank Moya Pons , author of The Dominican Republic: A National History, "This is a unique reader that brings together essential historical documents with insightful essays and studies by a select group of outstanding scholars who are at the frontline of Dominican studies, a recent special field in contemporary Latin American studies. A very welcome arrival for college and graduate courses. Congratulations!"-- Frank Moya Pons , author of The Dominican Republic: A National History, With its broad-minded collection ofdocuments, the reader is a welcome and well-crafted addition to a bookshelf of English-language works on the Dominican Republic and is certain to be just as valuable in the classroom., "A splendid introduction to an often-misrepresented nation, tracing its history from the pre-Columbian era through the Trujillo dictatorship to the ever-increasing influence--demographic, musical, literary, and sporting--of contemporary Dominicans in U.S. life. An excellent choice of brief texts makes this an attractive reader for undergraduate courses on the Caribbean."-- Richard Price , author of The Convict and the Colonel , Travels with Tooy , and Rainforest Warriors, "A splendid introduction to an often-misrepresented nation, tracing its history from the pre-Columbian era through the Trujillo dictatorship to the ever-increasing influence of contemporary Dominicans--demographic, musical, literary, and sporting--in US life. An excellent choice of brief texts makes this an attractive reader for undergraduate courses on the Caribbean."-- Richard Price , author of The Convict and the Colonel , Travels with Tooy , and Rainforest Warrior, "A splendid introduction to an often-misrepresented nation, tracing its history from the pre-Columbus era through the Trujillo dictatorship to the ever-increasing influence--demographic, musical, literary, and sporting--of contemporary Dominicans in U.S. life. An excellent choice of brief texts makes this an attractive reader for undergraduate courses on the Caribbean."-- Richard Price , author of The Convict and the Colonel , Travels with Tooy , and Rainforest Warriors, A student of Caribbean history or culture, or a student of Latin America, coming to this book would leave with a broad sense of what the Dominican Republic is, what its major historical and cultural issues are and have been, and how its current democracy has been achieved. That is not a bad achievement for a book clearly aimed at an undergraduate reader and held together with essays that illuminate the texts presented to its audience., A splendid introduction to an often-misrepresented nation, tracing its history from the pre-Columbus era through the Trujillo dictatorship to the ever-increasing influence--demographic, musical, literary, and sporting--of contemporary Dominicans in U.S. life. An excellent choice of brief texts makes this an attractive reader for undergraduate courses on the Caribbean., This is a unique reader that brings together essential historical documents with insightful essays and studies by a select group of outstanding scholars at the frontline of Dominican studies, a recent special field in contemporary Latin American studies. A very welcome arrival for college and graduate courses. Congratulations!, Roorda, Derby, and González use source materials from onsite actors/observers, government officials, writers, and intellectuals (Dominican and otherwise) to add an intimacy and sense of familiarity to the book's narrative. They blend and merge important and formative events and actors that make up the formal history of the Dominican Republic with accounts designed to help readers understand the Dominican character and bases for social norms. The dozens of essays and accounts (some from contributors more familiar to casual readers, some less familiar), with an appropriate apportioning of emphases on nations influential in Dominican affairs (such as the US), complete a historiography that is both challenging and insightful. In a collection of different tiles in the Dominican mosaic, nothing is really trivial here. Highly Recommended. Upper-level undergraduates and above., The Dominican Republic Reader is a well-crafted study that will engage readers. The documents, essays, and other vignettes are representative of the Dominican Republic's rich and colorful history and culture., The best available collection of writing in English for anyone wanting a broad and varied introduction to Dominican history, politics and culture. Very much a book for dipping into, which works well for the appealingly diverse sections on religion, popular culture and the Dominican diaspora but means the history sections, necessarily lacking a consistent narrative, work better for those with some prior knowledge of the country's past., The Dominican Republic Reader represents the most thought-provoking and interdisciplinary volume offered thus far to an English-speaking [audience]. It is a must for any university library, as well as a much-needed addition to any class dedicated to the study of Hispaniola, the Spanish Caribbean, or Dominicans in the United States., Curious travelers, study-abroad students and faculty, and Latinamericanists generally will find this book to be a solid departure point to understand issues of race, religion (the Virgen of Altagracia, syncreticism), music, gendered roles (machismo and marianismo), and the turbulent imprint of caudillos on the evolution of the Dominican Republic. Over 150 suggested readings point the way to further explore an island in the Caribbean whose history, culture and politics have much to say about the human condition there and elsewhere.
Table of Content
Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 I. European Encounters 9 II. Pirates, Governors, and Slaves 61 III. Revolutions 91 IV. Caudillos and Empires 141 V. The Idea of the Nation: Order and Progress 191 VI. Dollars, Gunboats, and Bullets 233 VII. The Era of Trujillo 279 VIII. The Long Transition to Democracy 325 IX. Religious Practices 387 X. Popular Culture 417 XI. The Dominican Diaspora 467 Suggestions for Further Reading 507 Acknowledgment of Copyrights and Sources 515 Index 527
Copyright Date
2014
Lccn
2013-047598
Dewey Decimal
972.93
Intended Audience
Trade
Series
The Latin America Readers Ser.
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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