Foundations of despotism : peasants, the Trujillo regime, and modernity in Dominican history /
Turits, Richard Lee.
Foundations of despotism : peasants, the Trujillo regime, and modernity in Dominican history / Richard Lee Turits. - Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2003. - x, 384 p. : map ; 24 cm.
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.
0804743533 (cloth : alk. paper)
2002010778
Trujillo Molina, Rafael Leónidas, 1891-1961.
Agriculture and state--History--Dominican Republic--20th century.
Peasantry--Political activity.--Dominican Republic
Dominican Republic--History--1930-1961.
HD1531.D6 / T87 2003 118 F 1938.5 / T938f 2003
972.9305/3/092 B
Foundations of despotism : peasants, the Trujillo regime, and modernity in Dominican history / Richard Lee Turits. - Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2003. - x, 384 p. : map ; 24 cm.
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.
0804743533 (cloth : alk. paper)
2002010778
Trujillo Molina, Rafael Leónidas, 1891-1961.
Agriculture and state--History--Dominican Republic--20th century.
Peasantry--Political activity.--Dominican Republic
Dominican Republic--History--1930-1961.
HD1531.D6 / T87 2003 118 F 1938.5 / T938f 2003
972.9305/3/092 B