The Dominican Republic reader : history, culture, politics /
The Dominican Republic reader : history, culture, politics /
Eric Paul Roorda, Lauren Derby, and Raymundo Gonzalez, editors.
- Durham, North Carolina : London, England : Duke University Press, (c)2014.
- xv, 536 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- The latin america readers .
European encounters -- The people who greeted Columbus / Religion of the Taino people / First descriptions of the land, first violence against its people / Death of the Spanish at Navidad / The first Christian converts and martyrs in the new world / Founding Santo Domingo / The Indian monarchs / Criminals as kings / A voice in the wilderness: brother Antonio Montesino / The Royal response / Pirates, governors, and slaves -- Las Casas blamed for the African slave trade / The slave problem in Santo Domingo / Lemba and the Maroons of Hispaniola / Francis Drake's sacking of Santo Domingo / Colonial delinquency / The bulls / The buccaneers of Hispaniola / Business deals with the buccaneers / The idea of value on Hispaniola / Revolutions -- The monteros and the guerreros / The border Maroons of Le Maniel / The people-eater / The Boca Nigua revolt / Hayti and San Domingo / Toussaint's conquest / After the war, tertulias / Stupid Spain / The Dominican bolivar / Profane bell bottoms / Dominicans unite! / Caudillos and empires -- Pedro Santana / The caudillo of the South / In the army camp at Bermejo / Irving Rouse -- Ramon Pane -- Christopher Columbus -- Diego Alvarez Chanca -- Ramon Pane -- Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas -- Luis Joseph Peguero -- Bartolome de Las Casas -- Bartolome de Las Casas -- Ferdinand I -- Augustus Francis MacNutt -- Alvaro de Castro -- Alonso Lopez de Cerrato -- Walter Bigges -- Carlos Esteban Deive -- Flerida de Nolasco -- Alexander O. Exquemelin -- Jean-Baptiste Labat -- Antonio Sanchez Valverde -- Manuel Vicente Hernandez Gonzalez -- Mederic Louis Elie Moreau de Saint-Mery -- Raymundo Gonzalez -- David Patrick Geggus -- James Franklin -- Jonathan Brown -- William Walton Jr. -- Carlos Urrutia de Montoya -- Jose Nunez de Caceres -- Cesar Nicolas Penson -- La Trinitaria -- Miguel Angel Monclus -- Buenaventura Baez -- Pedro Francisco Bono The war of the restoration / Spanish recolonization: a postmortem, US Commission of Inquiry to Santo Domingo -- Making the case for US annexation / Dominican support for annexation, US Commission of Inquiry to Santo Domingo -- Opposition to US annexation / Dominican nationalism versus annexation / A lesson in "quiet good-breeding" / Marti's travel notes / Ulises "Lilis" Heureaux / Your friend, Ulises / The idea of the nation: order and progress -- Street people and godparents / From Paris to Santo Domingo / Public enemies: the revolutionary and the pig / The "master of decimas" / Barriers to progress: revolutions, diseases, holidays, and cockfights / Food, race, and nation / Tobacco to the rescue / Patrons, peasants, and tobacco / Salome, Salome / The case for commerce, 1907, Dominican Department of Promotion and public works -- Dollars, gunboats, and bullets -- Uneasiness about the US Government / Carlos Vargas -- Ulysses S. Grant -- Justin S. Morrill -- Gregorio Luperon -- Samuel Hazard -- Jose Marti -- Americo Lugo -- Ulises Heureaux -- Luis Emilio Gomez Alfau -- Francisco Moscoso Puello -- Emiliano Tejera -- Juan Antonio Alix -- Pedro Francisco Bono -- Lauren Derby -- Pedro Francisco Bono -- Michiel Baud -- Urena de Henriquez -- Emiliano Tejera. In the midst of revolution, US receivership of Dominican customs -- Gavilleros, listin diario -- A resignation and a machine gun / The "water torture" and other abuses, US senate, hearings before a select committee on Haiti and Santo Domingo -- The land of bullet holes / American sugar kingdom / The universal negro improvement association in San Pedro de Macoris, officers and members of the association -- The crime of Wilson / The era of Trujillo -- The Haitian massacre / Message to Dominican women / The sugar strike of 1946 / Informal resistance on a Dominican sugar plantation / Biography of a great leader / A diplomat's diagnosis of the dictator / A British view of the dictatorship / Exile invasions, anonymous / I am Minerva! / The long transition to democracy -- "Basta ya!": a peasant woman speaks out / Without begging god / The masters / The rise and demise of democracy, CIA reports, 1961-1963 -- "Ni mato, ni robo" / Fashion police / The revolution of the Magi / United States intervention in the revolution of 1965 / The president of the United States chooses the next president of the Dominican Republic / Operation power pack / The twelve years / Frederic Wise and Meigs O. Frost -- Harry Franck -- Cesar J. Ayala -- Fabio Fiallo -- Eyewitnesses -- Dario Contreras -- Roberto Cassa -- Catherine C. LeGrand -- Abelardo Nanita -- Richard A. Johnson -- W.W. McVittie -- Armed Forces Magazine -- Mu-Kien Adriana Sang -- Aurora Rosado -- Joaquin Balaguer -- Juan Bosch -- Juan Bosch -- Elias Wessin y Wessin -- Jose Francisco Pena Gomez -- William Bennett -- Lyndon Johnson -- Lawrence A. Yates -- CIA Special Report. Why not, Dr. Balaguer? / Dominican, cut the cane! / The blind caudillo / The "eat alones" of the liberation party / The election of 2000 / The sour taste of US-Dominican sugar policy / Leonel, Fidel, and Barack, Leonel Fernandez, Fidel Castro, and Barack Obama -- Religious practices -- Mercedes / Altagracia / The Catholic bishops say no to the dictator, the five bishops of the Dominican Republic -- Liberation theology / To die in Villa Mella / A tire blowout gives entry into the world of spiritism / Dios Olivorio Mateo: the living god, interview with Irio Leonel Ramirez Lopez -- Jesus is calling you / Popular culture -- Carnival and holy week / Tribulations of Dominican racial identity / Origins of merengue and musical instruments of the republic / Dominican music on the world stage: Eduardo Brito / The people call all of it merengue / A bachata party / The tiger / La monteria: the hunt for wild pigs and goats / Everyday life in a poor barrio / The name is the same as the person / Juan Luis Guerra: I hope it rains ... / The Dominican diaspora -- The first immigrant to Manhattan, 1613: Jan Rodrigues / Player to be named later: Osvaldo/Ossie/Ozzie Virgil / First Dominican Major-Leaguer / The Dominican dandy: Juan Marichal / The queen of merengue / Dominican hip-hop in Spain / Black women are confusing, but the hair lets you know / Los Domincanyorks / The Yola / The Dominican who won the Kentucky Derby / You know you're Dominican? / Orlando Martinez -- State Sugar Council -- Anonymous -- Andres L. Mateo -- Central Election Commission -- Matt Peterson -- Flerida de Nolasco -- Anonymous -- Octavio A. Beras -- Carlos Hernandez Soto -- Martha Ellen Davis -- Frances Jane "Fanny" Crosby -- Luis Emilio Gomez Alfau -- Silvio Torres-Saillant -- J.M. Coopersmith -- Aristides Inchaustegui -- Johnny Ventura -- Julio Arzeno -- Rafael Damiron -- Martha Ellen Davis -- Tahira Vargas -- Jose Labourt -- Eric Paul Roorda -- Crew Members of the Jonge Tobias and Fortuyn -- Enrique Rojas -- Rob Ruck -- Milly Quezada -- Arianna Puello -- Ginetta Candelario -- Luis Guarnizo -- Milagros Ricourt -- Joel Rosario -- Anonymous.
"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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F1935 / .D665 2014
European encounters -- The people who greeted Columbus / Religion of the Taino people / First descriptions of the land, first violence against its people / Death of the Spanish at Navidad / The first Christian converts and martyrs in the new world / Founding Santo Domingo / The Indian monarchs / Criminals as kings / A voice in the wilderness: brother Antonio Montesino / The Royal response / Pirates, governors, and slaves -- Las Casas blamed for the African slave trade / The slave problem in Santo Domingo / Lemba and the Maroons of Hispaniola / Francis Drake's sacking of Santo Domingo / Colonial delinquency / The bulls / The buccaneers of Hispaniola / Business deals with the buccaneers / The idea of value on Hispaniola / Revolutions -- The monteros and the guerreros / The border Maroons of Le Maniel / The people-eater / The Boca Nigua revolt / Hayti and San Domingo / Toussaint's conquest / After the war, tertulias / Stupid Spain / The Dominican bolivar / Profane bell bottoms / Dominicans unite! / Caudillos and empires -- Pedro Santana / The caudillo of the South / In the army camp at Bermejo / Irving Rouse -- Ramon Pane -- Christopher Columbus -- Diego Alvarez Chanca -- Ramon Pane -- Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas -- Luis Joseph Peguero -- Bartolome de Las Casas -- Bartolome de Las Casas -- Ferdinand I -- Augustus Francis MacNutt -- Alvaro de Castro -- Alonso Lopez de Cerrato -- Walter Bigges -- Carlos Esteban Deive -- Flerida de Nolasco -- Alexander O. Exquemelin -- Jean-Baptiste Labat -- Antonio Sanchez Valverde -- Manuel Vicente Hernandez Gonzalez -- Mederic Louis Elie Moreau de Saint-Mery -- Raymundo Gonzalez -- David Patrick Geggus -- James Franklin -- Jonathan Brown -- William Walton Jr. -- Carlos Urrutia de Montoya -- Jose Nunez de Caceres -- Cesar Nicolas Penson -- La Trinitaria -- Miguel Angel Monclus -- Buenaventura Baez -- Pedro Francisco Bono The war of the restoration / Spanish recolonization: a postmortem, US Commission of Inquiry to Santo Domingo -- Making the case for US annexation / Dominican support for annexation, US Commission of Inquiry to Santo Domingo -- Opposition to US annexation / Dominican nationalism versus annexation / A lesson in "quiet good-breeding" / Marti's travel notes / Ulises "Lilis" Heureaux / Your friend, Ulises / The idea of the nation: order and progress -- Street people and godparents / From Paris to Santo Domingo / Public enemies: the revolutionary and the pig / The "master of decimas" / Barriers to progress: revolutions, diseases, holidays, and cockfights / Food, race, and nation / Tobacco to the rescue / Patrons, peasants, and tobacco / Salome, Salome / The case for commerce, 1907, Dominican Department of Promotion and public works -- Dollars, gunboats, and bullets -- Uneasiness about the US Government / Carlos Vargas -- Ulysses S. Grant -- Justin S. Morrill -- Gregorio Luperon -- Samuel Hazard -- Jose Marti -- Americo Lugo -- Ulises Heureaux -- Luis Emilio Gomez Alfau -- Francisco Moscoso Puello -- Emiliano Tejera -- Juan Antonio Alix -- Pedro Francisco Bono -- Lauren Derby -- Pedro Francisco Bono -- Michiel Baud -- Urena de Henriquez -- Emiliano Tejera. In the midst of revolution, US receivership of Dominican customs -- Gavilleros, listin diario -- A resignation and a machine gun / The "water torture" and other abuses, US senate, hearings before a select committee on Haiti and Santo Domingo -- The land of bullet holes / American sugar kingdom / The universal negro improvement association in San Pedro de Macoris, officers and members of the association -- The crime of Wilson / The era of Trujillo -- The Haitian massacre / Message to Dominican women / The sugar strike of 1946 / Informal resistance on a Dominican sugar plantation / Biography of a great leader / A diplomat's diagnosis of the dictator / A British view of the dictatorship / Exile invasions, anonymous / I am Minerva! / The long transition to democracy -- "Basta ya!": a peasant woman speaks out / Without begging god / The masters / The rise and demise of democracy, CIA reports, 1961-1963 -- "Ni mato, ni robo" / Fashion police / The revolution of the Magi / United States intervention in the revolution of 1965 / The president of the United States chooses the next president of the Dominican Republic / Operation power pack / The twelve years / Frederic Wise and Meigs O. Frost -- Harry Franck -- Cesar J. Ayala -- Fabio Fiallo -- Eyewitnesses -- Dario Contreras -- Roberto Cassa -- Catherine C. LeGrand -- Abelardo Nanita -- Richard A. Johnson -- W.W. McVittie -- Armed Forces Magazine -- Mu-Kien Adriana Sang -- Aurora Rosado -- Joaquin Balaguer -- Juan Bosch -- Juan Bosch -- Elias Wessin y Wessin -- Jose Francisco Pena Gomez -- William Bennett -- Lyndon Johnson -- Lawrence A. Yates -- CIA Special Report. Why not, Dr. Balaguer? / Dominican, cut the cane! / The blind caudillo / The "eat alones" of the liberation party / The election of 2000 / The sour taste of US-Dominican sugar policy / Leonel, Fidel, and Barack, Leonel Fernandez, Fidel Castro, and Barack Obama -- Religious practices -- Mercedes / Altagracia / The Catholic bishops say no to the dictator, the five bishops of the Dominican Republic -- Liberation theology / To die in Villa Mella / A tire blowout gives entry into the world of spiritism / Dios Olivorio Mateo: the living god, interview with Irio Leonel Ramirez Lopez -- Jesus is calling you / Popular culture -- Carnival and holy week / Tribulations of Dominican racial identity / Origins of merengue and musical instruments of the republic / Dominican music on the world stage: Eduardo Brito / The people call all of it merengue / A bachata party / The tiger / La monteria: the hunt for wild pigs and goats / Everyday life in a poor barrio / The name is the same as the person / Juan Luis Guerra: I hope it rains ... / The Dominican diaspora -- The first immigrant to Manhattan, 1613: Jan Rodrigues / Player to be named later: Osvaldo/Ossie/Ozzie Virgil / First Dominican Major-Leaguer / The Dominican dandy: Juan Marichal / The queen of merengue / Dominican hip-hop in Spain / Black women are confusing, but the hair lets you know / Los Domincanyorks / The Yola / The Dominican who won the Kentucky Derby / You know you're Dominican? / Orlando Martinez -- State Sugar Council -- Anonymous -- Andres L. Mateo -- Central Election Commission -- Matt Peterson -- Flerida de Nolasco -- Anonymous -- Octavio A. Beras -- Carlos Hernandez Soto -- Martha Ellen Davis -- Frances Jane "Fanny" Crosby -- Luis Emilio Gomez Alfau -- Silvio Torres-Saillant -- J.M. Coopersmith -- Aristides Inchaustegui -- Johnny Ventura -- Julio Arzeno -- Rafael Damiron -- Martha Ellen Davis -- Tahira Vargas -- Jose Labourt -- Eric Paul Roorda -- Crew Members of the Jonge Tobias and Fortuyn -- Enrique Rojas -- Rob Ruck -- Milly Quezada -- Arianna Puello -- Ginetta Candelario -- Luis Guarnizo -- Milagros Ricourt -- Joel Rosario -- Anonymous.
"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."
9780822357001
2013047598
GBB465042 bnb
016760824 Uk
F1935 / .D665 2014