Historical Dictionary of the Dominican Republic

Eric Paul Roorda (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

394 Seiten

2016
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
9780810879058 (ISBN)

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The colony called Santo Domingo, which became the Dominican Republic, was the violent crucible in which the ingredients of the New World, drawn from America, Europe and Africa, were fused together for the first time: humans, religions, technologies, animals, plants and learned behaviors. The history of the Dominican Republic diverged from the patterns established by the rest of Latin America, as it ultimately gained independence not from Spain, but from Haiti, and Spain later recolonized the country during a watershed period in the 1860s. In the 20th century, the United States occupied the Dominican Republic on two formative occasions, from 1916 to 1924 and again in 1965-1966, interventions detailed in this volume. At every turn, the backdrop to this pattern of shaky sovereignty has been the extreme instability of Dominican politics, which has been punctuated by incessant civil wars, coups, and periods of dictatorship, until the last few decades.

The Historical Dictionary of the Dominican Republic contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 500 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the Dominican Republic.

Eric Paul Roorda is Professor of History at Bellarmine University in Louisville, Kentucky, and Co-director of the Munson Institute of American Maritime Studies at Mystic Seaport, Connecticut. He was a Fulbright Scholar in the Dominican Republic, and is a member of the Dominican Academy of History.

Editor’s Foreward Jon Woronoff
Preface
Reader’s Notes
Acronyms and Abbreviations
Map
Chronology
Introduction
THE DICTIONARY
Appendixes
Heads of State
Provinces
Bibliography
About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum	13.04.2016
Reihe/Serie	Historical Dictionaries of the Americas
Zusatzinfo	1 Maps
Sprache	englisch
Maße	151 x 230 mm
Gewicht	581 g
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-13	9780810879058 / 9780810879058
Zustand	Neuware