Foundations of despotism : peasants, the Trujillo regime, and modernity in Dominican history
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| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | x, 384 pages : map ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [349]-368) and index. |
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Stanford, Calif. :
Stanford University Press,
2003.
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| ISBN: | 0804743533 (cloth : alk. paper) |
Table of 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.