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Foundations of despotism : peasants, the Trujillo regime, and modernity in Dominican history / Richard Lee Turits.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2003.Description: x, 384 p. : map ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0804743533 (cloth : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 972.9305/3/092 B 21
LOC classification:
  • HD1531.D6 T87 2003
  • 118 F 1938.5 T938f 2003
Contents:
Freedom in El Monte : from slaves to independent peasants in colonial Santo Domingo -- Imagining modernity : peasants, property, and the state in the century after independence -- Peasant-state compromise and rural transformation under the Trujillo dictatorship -- Negotiating dictatorship : landowners, state officials, and everyday contests over agrarian reform --
Bordering the nation : race, colonization, and the 1937 Haitian massacre in the Dominican frontier -- Taming the countryside : agricultural colonies as rural reform under the Trujillo regime -- Memories of dictatorship : rural culture and everyday forms of state formation under Trujillo -- The birth of a Dominican sugar empire and the decline of the Trujillo regime.
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Item type Current library Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Vol info Copy number Status Barcode
Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Recursos Regionales Recursos Regionales (2do. Piso) HD1531.D6 T87 2003 | 118 F 1938.5 T938f 2003 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 1 Available 00000033934

Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-368) and index.

Freedom in El Monte : from slaves to independent peasants in colonial Santo Domingo -- Imagining modernity : peasants, property, and the state in the century after independence -- Peasant-state compromise and rural transformation under the Trujillo dictatorship -- Negotiating dictatorship : landowners, state officials, and everyday contests over agrarian reform --

Bordering the nation : race, colonization, and the 1937 Haitian massacre in the Dominican frontier -- Taming the countryside : agricultural colonies as rural reform under the Trujillo regime -- Memories of dictatorship : rural culture and everyday forms of state formation under Trujillo -- The birth of a Dominican sugar empire and the decline of the Trujillo regime.

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