This book examines the economic and political continuities between the U.S. military government and subsequent regimes, including the infamous Trujillo dictatorship (1930-1961).

The Dominican Republic: A National History

History

Moya Pons, Frank

Americas

Markus Wiener Pub

Frank Moya Pons is the best-known contemporary Dominican historian. The author of many books and articles, he is a recognized scholar both at home and abroad. This book is based on his well-known Manual de historia dominicana (1992), now in its tenth edition and considered a basic text in Dominican historiography. But his new book is more than a simple translation of the old classic; it is a revised and expanded edition, with new sections, detailed historical maps, and a comprehensive bibliographic essay. The history of the Island and the Dominican Republic from 1492 to 1990 by " the best-known contemporary Dominican historian.

History of the Caribbean

From the arrival of the first Europeans in the region until the 1930s, plantations -- building their fortunes on sugar, and to a lesser extent on cotton, indigo, tobacco, coffee, and bananas -- brought unprecedented wealth to Old World owners, effected a fundamental shift in the landscape and economy of the Caribbean and the Atlantic world, saw the enslavement of first indigenous populations and then imported Africans, and led to bloody wars on both sides of the Atlantic over control of the lucrative sugar market. In this comprehensive volume, Frank Moya Pons explores the history, context, and consequences of the major changes that marked the Caribbean between Columbus' initial landing and the Great Depression. He investigates indigenous commercial ventures and institutions, the rise of the plantation economy in the 16th century, and the impact of slavery. He discusses the slave revolts and struggles for independence, seen by European landowners not as a matter of human or political rights but as an expensive interruption to their profit flow. History of the Caribbean traces the fate of a group of small islands whose natural resources transformed them first into some of the wealthiest places on earth and then into some of the poorest. This book intertwines the socioeconomics of the Caribbean with Atlantic history in a captivating narrative that will fascinate a general audience and provide new insights for specialists.

Markus Wiener Publishers

History of the Caribbean: Plantations, Trade, and War in the Atlantic World

From the arrival of the first Europeans in the region until the 1930s, plantations - building their fortunes on sugar, and to a lesser extent on cotton, indigo, tobacco, coffee, and bananas - brought unprecedented wealth to Old World owners, effected a fundamental shift in the landscape and economy of the Caribbean and the Atlantic world, saw the enslavement of first indigenous populations and then imported Africans, and led to bloody wars on both sides of the Atlantic over control of the lucrative sugar market. In this comprehensive volume, Frank Moya Pons explores the history, context, and consequences of the major changes that marked the Caribbean between Columbus' initial landing and the Great Depression. He investigates indigenous commercial ventures and institutions, the rise of the plantation economy in the 16th century, and the impact of slavery. He discusses the slave revolts and struggles for independence, seen by European landowners not as a matter of human or political rights but as an expensive interruption to their profit flow. History of the Caribbean traces the fate of a group of small islands whose natural resources transformed them first into some of the wealthiest places on earth and then into some of the poorest. This book intertwines the socioeconomics of the Caribbean with Atlantic history in a captivating narrative that will fascinate a general audience and provide new insights for specialists.

This updated edition of "The Dominican Republic: A National History" will cover the period from 1990 to 2008, that is, from the collapse of the Dominican economy to the May 2008 presidential elections. In addition to the electoral fraud and constitutional reforms of 1994 and the return and current administration of Leonel Fernandez, the update will focus on financial crises, the economic reforms of the 1990s, the free-trade agreement with the U.S., and party politics. It will also take account of recent Dominican cultural upheavals prompted by the growth of tourism, resistance to change, and the rapid alteration of values stemming from the migration from rural to urban areas, industrialization, and return migration from the United states.

Pons, Frank M.

Hispaniola Books Corp

Historia de la República Dominicana

Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas

Manual de historia dominicana (Spanish Edition)

Caribbean Publishers

Iniciamos la colección de Historia de las Antillas con la publicación del volumen dedicado a Cuba (2009). En 2010 presentamos el correspondiente a República Dominicana en el que participan especialistas de distintas escuelas historiográficas, instituciones y disciplinas. La larga experiencia como investigadores de la mayoría de los autores que integran este volumen avala su contenido que, de manera resumida, trata de presentar un compendio de la historia de República Dominicana basada en largos años de trabajo en archivos y bibliotecas de República Dominicana, España y Estados Unidos, fundamentalmente. A través de los capítulos se presenta una historia conectada y entrelazada entre distintos actores, diferentes tiempos, espacios y discursos que convergieron y se distanciaron en función de determinados intereses.

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

Doce Calles

Descripción de las grandes transformaciones estructurales ocurridas en la República Dominicana, desde el último cuarto del siglo XIX hasta las postrimerías del XX. El lector podrá apreciar aquí, los esfuerzos realizados por el pueblo dominicano hacia construir un régimen democrático a partir de la muerte del dictador Rafael Trujillo.

Breve historia contemporánea de la República Dominicana (Spanish Edition)

FONDO DE CULTURA ECONOMICA*

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The Dominican Republic: A National History

The Dominican Republic: A National History

History of the Caribbean

History of the Caribbean: Plantations, Trade, and War in the Atlantic World

History of the Caribbean

The Dominican Republic: A National History

Historia de la República Dominicana

Manual de historia dominicana (Spanish Edition)

Historia de la República Dominicana

Breve historia contemporánea de la República Dominicana (Spanish Edition)