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Trujillo: Aproximacion al Hombre y su Tiempo (Paperback)
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Trujillo's biography, from childhood until his assassination and explains the underlying circumstances that produced what became one of the longest-living and the bloodiest Latin-American dictatorship.
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The Dominican Republic: A National History (Paperback)
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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 Spanish version has been for decades now the textbook in Dominican History classes at the university level.
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The Devil behind the Mirror: Globalization and Politics in the Dominican Republic (Paperback)
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In The Devil behind the Mirror, Steven Gregory provides a compelling and intimate account of the impact that transnational processes associated with globalization are having on the lives and livelihoods of people in the Dominican Republic.
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What's Love Got to Do with It?: Transnational Desires and Sex Tourism in the Dominican Republic (Paperback)
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What's Love Got to Do with It? is an in-depth examination of the motivations of workers, clients, and others connected to the sex tourism business in Sosúa, a town on the northern coast of the Dominican Republic.
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Impact of Intervention: The Dominican Republic During the U.S. Occupation of 1916-1924 (Paperback)
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Bruce J. Calder analyzes the real story behind the 1916 intervention and its impact in how things later developed in the Dominican Republic.
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Dominican People: A Documentary History (Paperback)
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This books features annotated documents on some of the transcendental events that have taken place on the island since pre-Columbian times.
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The Tainos: Rise and Decline of the People Who Greeted Columbus (Paperback)
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Over five hundred years ago when Columbus set foot in the "New World" he found a peaceful race of people that called themselves Tainos. Within decades they had ceased to exist, obliterated from the larger Caribbean islands by disease, slavery and abuse.
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Dominicanos en Estados Unidos (Paperback)
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Velasquez and Urena analyze the roots of the Dominican migration to the United States and the underlying economic and social circumstances that produced this phenomenon.
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El Sindicalismo en la Republica Dominicana (Paperback)
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History and impact of unions in the Dominican Republic since its beginning to this day. The author has written over dozen books on unionism in the Dominican Republic.
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La Presencia Negra en Santo Domingo: Un Enfoque Etnohistorico (Paperback)
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There are not many studies of the African influence in the Dominican national identity, at least not as many as they should, Carlos Andujar writes a serious book, albeit a small one, on the tremendous influence of the Dominican's African ancestors in religiosity, language, culture and ethnicity.
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