The Dominican Republic Reader: History, Culture, Politics

Media type: E-Book

Title: The Dominican Republic Reader : History, Culture, Politics

Contributor: Ferdinand I [Contributor]; La Trinitaria [Contributor]; Nanita, Abelardo [Contributor]; Exquemelin, Alexander O [Contributor]; López de Cerrato, Alonso [Contributor]; Lugo, Américo [Contributor]; Mateo, Andrés L [Contributor]; Herrera y Tordesillas, Antonio de [Contributor]; Sánchez Valverde, Antonio [Contributor]; Puello, Arianna [Contributor]; Incháustegui, Arístides [Contributor]; MacNutt, Augustus Francis [Contributor]; Rosado, Aurora [Contributor]; Obama, Barack [Contributor]; Las Casas, Bartolomé de [Contributor]; Báez, Buenaventura [Contributor]; Esteban Deive, Carlos [Contributor]; Hernández Soto, Carlos [Contributor]; Urrutia de Montoya, Carlos [Contributor]; Vargas, Carlos [Contributor]; LeGrand, Catherine C [Contributor]; Columbus, Christopher [Contributor]; Ayala, César J [Contributor]; Penson, César Nicolás [Contributor]; Contreras, Darío [Contributor]; Geggus, David Patrick [Contributor]; Derby, Lauren H [Editor]; Álvarez Chanca, Diego [Contributor]; Wessin y Wessin, Elías [Contributor]; Tejera, Emiliano [Contributor]; Rojas, Enrique [Contributor]; Roorda, Eric Paul [Contributor]; Fiallo, Fabio [Contributor]; Castro, Fidel [Contributor]; Nolasco, Flérida de [Contributor]; Crosby, Frances Jane [Contributor]; Moscoso Puello, Francisco [Contributor]; Wise, Frederic [Contributor]; Candelario, Ginetta [Contributor]; González, Raymundo [Editor]; Luperón, Gregorio [Contributor]; Franck, Harry [Contributor]; Ramírez López, Irio Leonel [Contributor]; Rouse, Irving [Contributor]; Coopersmith, J. M [Contributor]; Franklin, James [Contributor]; Labat, Jean-Baptiste [Contributor]; Balaguer, Joaquín [Contributor]; Rosario, Joel [Contributor]; Ventura, Johnny [Contributor]; Brown, Jonathan [Contributor]; Peña Gómez, José Francisco [Contributor]; Labourt, José [Contributor]; Martí, José [Contributor]; Núñez de Cáceres, José [Contributor]; Alix, Juan Antonio [Contributor]; Bosch, Juan [Contributor]; Arzeno, Julio [Contributor]; Morrill, Justin S [Contributor]; Derby, Lauren Hutchinson [Contributor]; Yates, Lawrence A [Contributor]; Fernández, Leonel [Contributor]; Diario, Listín [Contributor]; Gómez Alfau, Luis Emilio [Contributor]; Peguero, Luis Joseph [Contributor]; Guarnizo, Luis [Contributor]; Johnson, Lyndon [Contributor]; Hernández González, Manuel Vicente [Contributor]; Davis, Martha Ellen [Contributor]; Peterson, Matt [Contributor]; Frost, Meigs O [Contributor]; Baud, Michiel [Contributor]; Monclús, Miguel Ángel [Contributor]; Ricourt, Milagros [Contributor]; Quezada, Milly [Contributor]; Sang, Mu-Kien Adriana [Contributor]; Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry, Médéric Louis [Contributor]; Beras, Octavio A [Contributor]; Martínez, Orlando [Contributor]; Bonó, Pedro Francisco [Contributor]; Damirón, Rafael [Contributor]; Pané, Ramón [Contributor]; González, Raymundo [Contributor]; Johnson, Richard A [Contributor]; Ruck, Rob [Contributor]; Cassá, Roberto [Contributor]; Roorda, Eric Paul [Editor]; Ureña de Henríquez, Salomé [Contributor]; Hazard, Samuel [Contributor]; Torres-Saillant, Silvio [Contributor]; Vargas, Tahira [Contributor]; Heureaux, Ulises [Contributor]; Grant, Ulysses S [Contributor]; McVittie, W. W [Contributor]; Bigges, Walter [Contributor]; Bennett, William [Contributor]; Walton, William [Contributor]; Castro, Álvaro de [Contributor]

Published: Durham: Duke University Press, [2014]
[Online-Ausgabe]

Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (552 p); 85 illustrations, incl. 10 in color

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9780822376521

ISBN: 9780822376521

Identifier:

Keywords: HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / General

Type of reproduction: [Online-Ausgabe]

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Footnote: In English
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web

Description: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Map -- Introduction -- I. European Encounters -- The People Who Greeted Columbus -- Religion of the Taíno People -- First Descriptions of the Land, First Violence against Its People -- Death of the Spanish at Navidad -- The First Christian Converts-and Martyrs-in the New World -- Founding Santo Domingo -- The Indian Monarchs -- Criminals as Kings -- A Voice in the Wilderness: Brother Antonio Montesino -- The Royal Response -- II. Pirates, Governors, and Slaves -- Las Casas Blamed for the African Slave Trade -- The Slave Problem in Santo Domingo -- Lemba and the Maroons of Hispaniola -- Francis Drake's Sacking of Santo Domingo -- Colonial Delinquency -- The Bulls -- The Buccaneers of Hispaniola -- Business Deals with the Buccaneers -- The Idea of Value on Hispaniola -- III. Revolutions -- The Monteros and the Guerreros -- The Border Maroons of Le Maniel -- The "People-Eater" -- The Boca Nigua Revolt -- Hayti and San Domingo -- Toussaint's Conquest -- After the War, Tertulias -- Stupid Spain -- The Dominican Bolívar -- Arrogant Bell Bottoms -- Dominicans Unite -- IV. Caudillos and Empires -- Pedro Santana -- The Caudillo of the South -- In the Army Camp at Bermejo -- The War of the Restoration -- Spanish Recolonization: A Postmortem -- Making the Case for US Annexation -- Dominican Support for Annexation -- Opposition to US Annexation -- Dominican Nationalism versus Annexation -- A Lesson in "Quiet Good-Breeding" -- Martí's Travel Notes -- Ulises "Lilís" Heureaux -- Your Friend, Ulises -- V. The Idea of the Nation: Order and Progress -- Street People and Godparents -- From Paris to Santo Domingo -- Public Enemies: The Revolutionary and the Pig -- The "Master of Décimas" -- Barriers to Progress: Revolutions, Diseases, Holidays, and Cockfights -- Food, Race, and Nation -- Tobacco to the Rescue -- Patrons, Peasants, and Tobacco -- Salomé -- The Case for Commerce, 1907 -- VI. Dollars, Gunboats, and Bullets -- Uneasiness about the US Government -- In the Midst of Revolution -- Gavilleros -- A Resignation and a Machine Gun -- The "Water Torture" and Other Abuses -- The Land of Bullet-Holes -- American Sugar Kingdom -- The Universal Negro Improvement Association in San Pedro de Macorís -- The Crime of Wilson -- VII. The Era of Trujillo -- The Haitian Massacre -- Message to Dominican Women -- The Sugar Strike of 1946 -- Informal Resistance on a Dominican Sugar Plantation -- Biography of a Great Leader -- A Diplomat's Diagnosis of the Dictator -- A British View of the Dictatorship -- Exile Invasions -- I Am Minerva! -- VIII. The Long Transition to Democracy -- "Basta Ya!": A Peasant Woman Speaks Out -- Without Begging God -- The Masters -- The Rise and Demise of Democracy -- "Ni Mató, Ni Robó" -- Fashion Police -- The Revolution of the Magi -- United States Intervention in the Revolution of 1965 -- The President of the United States Chooses the Next President of the Dominican Republic -- Operation Power Pack -- Lawrence A. Yates -- Why Not, Dr. Balaguer? -- Dominican, Cut the Cane! -- The Blind Caudillo -- The "Eat Alones" of the Liberation Party -- The Election of 2000 -- The Sour Taste of US-Dominican Sugar Policy -- Leonel, Fidel, and Barack -- IX. Religious Practices -- Mercedes -- Altagracia -- The Catholic Bishops Say No to the Dictator -- Liberation Theology -- To Die in Villa Mella -- A Tire Blowout Gives Entry into the World of Spiritism -- Díos Olivorio Mateo: The Living God -- Jesus Is Calling You -- X. Popular Culture -- Carnival and Holy Week -- Tribulations of Dominican Racial Identity -- Origins of Merengue and Musical Instruments of the Republic -- Dominican Music on the World Stage: Eduardo Brito -- "The People Call All of It Merengue" -- A Bachata Party -- The Tiger -- La Montería: The Hunt for Wild Pigs and Goats -- Everyday Life in a Poor Barrio -- The Name Is the Same as the Person -- "I Hope It Rains . . .": Juan Luis Guerra -- XI. The Dominican Diaspora -- The First Immigrant to Manhattan, 1613: Jan Rodrigues -- Player to Be Named Later: Osvaldo/Ossie/Ozzie Virgil, First Dominican Major Leaguer -- The Dominican Dandy: Juan Marichal -- The Queen of Merengue -- Dominican Hip-Hop in Spain -- Black Women Are Confusing, but the Hair Lets You Know -- Los Dominicanyorks -- The Yola -- The Dominican Who Won the Kentucky Derby -- You Know You're Dominican . . . -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Acknowledgment of Copyrights and Sources -- Index

Despite its significance in the history of Spanish colonialism, the Dominican Republic is familiar to most outsiders through only a few elements of its past and culture. Non-Dominicans may be aware that the country shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti and that it is where Christopher Columbus chose to build a colony. Some may know that the country produces talented baseball players and musicians; others that it is a prime destination for beach vacations. Little else about the Dominican Republic is common knowledge outside its borders. This Reader seeks to change that. It provides an introduction to the history, politics, and culture of the country, from precolonial times into the early twenty-first century. Among the volume's 118 selections are essays, speeches, journalism, songs, poems, legal documents, testimonials, and short stories, as well as several interviews conducted especially for this Reader. Many of the selections have been translated into English for the first time. All of them are preceded by brief introductions written by the editors. The volume's eighty-five illustrations, ten of which appear in color, include maps, paintings, and photos of architecture, statues, famous figures, and Dominicans going about their everyday lives

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