Turits, Richard Lee. <br/><br/>
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. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-368) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0804743533 (cloth : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2002010778 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Trujillo Molina, Rafael Leónidas, 1891-1961. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Agriculture and state--History--Dominican Republic--20th century.<br/>Peasantry--Political activity.--Dominican Republic
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Dominican Republic--History--1930-1961.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HD1531.D6  / T87 2003 118 F 1938.5  / T938f 2003 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>972.9305/3/092  B