The Dominican Republic reader : history, culture, politics / Eric Paul Roorda, Lauren Derby, and Raymundo Gonzalez, editors.

European encounters -- The people who greeted Columbus / Irving Rouse -- Religion of the Taino people / Ramon Pane -- First descriptions of the land, first violence against its people / Christopher Columbus -- Death of the Spanish at Navidad / Diego Alvarez Chanca -- The first Christian converts and martyrs in the new world / Ramon Pane -- Founding Santo Domingo / Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas -- The Indian monarchs / Luis Joseph Peguero -- Criminals as kings / Bartolome de Las Casas -- A voice in the wilderness: brother Antonio Montesino / Bartolome de Las Casas -- The Royal response / Ferdinand I -- Pirates, governors, and slaves -- Las Casas blamed for the African slave trade / Augustus Francis MacNutt -- The slave problem in Santo Domingo / Alvaro de Castro -- Lemba and the Maroons of Hispaniola / Alonso Lopez de Cerrato -- Francis Drake's sacking of Santo Domingo / Walter Bigges -- Colonial delinquency / Carlos Esteban Deive -- The bulls / Flerida de Nolasco -- The buccaneers of Hispaniola / Alexander O. Exquemelin -- Business deals with the buccaneers / Jean-Baptiste Labat -- The idea of value on Hispaniola / Antonio Sanchez Valverde -- Revolutions -- The monteros and the guerreros / Manuel Vicente Hernandez Gonzalez -- The border Maroons of Le Maniel / Mederic Louis Elie Moreau de Saint-Mery -- The people-eater / Raymundo Gonzalez -- The Boca Nigua revolt / David Patrick Geggus -- Hayti and San Domingo / James Franklin -- Toussaint's conquest / Jonathan Brown -- After the war, tertulias / William Walton Jr. -- Stupid Spain / Carlos Urrutia de Montoya -- The Dominican bolivar / Jose Nunez de Caceres -- Profane bell bottoms / Cesar Nicolas Penson -- Dominicans unite! / La Trinitaria -- Caudillos and empires -- Pedro Santana / Miguel Angel Monclus -- The caudillo of the South / Buenaventura Baez -- In the army camp at Bermejo / Pedro Francisco Bono

The war of the restoration / Carlos Vargas -- Spanish recolonization: a postmortem, US Commission of Inquiry to Santo Domingo -- Making the case for US annexation / Ulysses S. Grant -- Dominican support for annexation, US Commission of Inquiry to Santo Domingo -- Opposition to US annexation / Justin S. Morrill -- Dominican nationalism versus annexation / Gregorio Luperon -- A lesson in "quiet good-breeding" / Samuel Hazard -- Marti's travel notes / Jose Marti -- Ulises "Lilis" Heureaux / Americo Lugo -- Your friend, Ulises / Ulises Heureaux -- The idea of the nation: order and progress -- Street people and godparents / Luis Emilio Gomez Alfau -- From Paris to Santo Domingo / Francisco Moscoso Puello -- Public enemies: the revolutionary and the pig / Emiliano Tejera -- The "master of decimas" / Juan Antonio Alix -- Barriers to progress: revolutions, diseases, holidays, and cockfights / Pedro Francisco Bono -- Food, race, and nation / Lauren Derby -- Tobacco to the rescue / Pedro Francisco Bono -- Patrons, peasants, and tobacco / Michiel Baud -- Salome, Salome / Urena de Henriquez -- The case for commerce, 1907, Dominican Department of Promotion and public works -- Dollars, gunboats, and bullets -- Uneasiness about the US Government / Emiliano Tejera.

In the midst of revolution, US receivership of Dominican customs -- Gavilleros, listin diario -- A resignation and a machine gun / Frederic Wise and Meigs O. Frost -- The "water torture" and other abuses, US senate, hearings before a select committee on Haiti and Santo Domingo -- The land of bullet holes / Harry Franck -- American sugar kingdom / Cesar J. Ayala -- The universal negro improvement association in San Pedro de Macoris, officers and members of the association -- The crime of Wilson / Fabio Fiallo -- The era of Trujillo -- The Haitian massacre / Eyewitnesses -- Message to Dominican women / Dario Contreras -- The sugar strike of 1946 / Roberto Cassa -- Informal resistance on a Dominican sugar plantation / Catherine C. LeGrand -- Biography of a great leader / Abelardo Nanita -- A diplomat's diagnosis of the dictator / Richard A. Johnson -- A British view of the dictatorship / W.W. McVittie -- Exile invasions, anonymous / Armed Forces Magazine -- I am Minerva! / Mu-Kien Adriana Sang -- The long transition to democracy -- "Basta ya!": a peasant woman speaks out / Aurora Rosado -- Without begging god / Joaquin Balaguer -- The masters / Juan Bosch -- The rise and demise of democracy, CIA reports, 1961-1963 -- "Ni mato, ni robo" / Juan Bosch -- Fashion police / Elias Wessin y Wessin -- The revolution of the Magi / Jose Francisco Pena Gomez -- United States intervention in the revolution of 1965 / William Bennett -- The president of the United States chooses the next president of the Dominican Republic / Lyndon Johnson -- Operation power pack / Lawrence A. Yates -- The twelve years / CIA Special Report.

Why not, Dr. Balaguer? / Orlando Martinez -- Dominican, cut the cane! / State Sugar Council -- The blind caudillo / Anonymous -- The "eat alones" of the liberation party / Andres L. Mateo -- The election of 2000 / Central Election Commission -- The sour taste of US-Dominican sugar policy / Matt Peterson -- Leonel, Fidel, and Barack, Leonel Fernandez, Fidel Castro, and Barack Obama -- Religious practices -- Mercedes / Flerida de Nolasco -- Altagracia / Anonymous -- The Catholic bishops say no to the dictator, the five bishops of the Dominican Republic -- Liberation theology / Octavio A. Beras -- To die in Villa Mella / Carlos Hernandez Soto -- A tire blowout gives entry into the world of spiritism / Martha Ellen Davis -- Dios Olivorio Mateo: the living god, interview with Irio Leonel Ramirez Lopez -- Jesus is calling you / Frances Jane "Fanny" Crosby -- Popular culture -- Carnival and holy week / Luis Emilio Gomez Alfau -- Tribulations of Dominican racial identity / Silvio Torres-Saillant -- Origins of merengue and musical instruments of the republic / J.M. Coopersmith -- Dominican music on the world stage: Eduardo Brito / Aristides Inchaustegui -- The people call all of it merengue / Johnny Ventura -- A bachata party / Julio Arzeno -- The tiger / Rafael Damiron -- La monteria: the hunt for wild pigs and goats / Martha Ellen Davis -- Everyday life in a poor barrio / Tahira Vargas -- The name is the same as the person / Jose Labourt -- Juan Luis Guerra: I hope it rains ... / Eric Paul Roorda -- The Dominican diaspora -- The first immigrant to Manhattan, 1613: Jan Rodrigues / Crew Members of the Jonge Tobias and Fortuyn -- Player to be named later: Osvaldo/Ossie/Ozzie Virgil / First Dominican Major-Leaguer / Enrique Rojas -- The Dominican dandy: Juan Marichal / Rob Ruck -- The queen of merengue / Milly Quezada -- Dominican hip-hop in Spain / Arianna Puello -- Black women are confusing, but the hair lets you know / Ginetta Candelario -- Los Domincanyorks / Luis Guarnizo -- The Yola / Milagros Ricourt -- The Dominican who won the Kentucky Derby / Joel Rosario -- You know you're Dominican? / 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." Back Cover

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