Durham London : Duke University Press, 2014.;©2014
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Part of the series The Latin America readers;Latin America readers.
Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 507-514) and index.
• European encounters — The people who greeted Columbus / Irving Rouse — Religion of the Taíno people / Ramón Pané — First descriptions of the land, first violence against its people / Christopher Columbus — Death of the Spanish at Navidad / Diego Alvarez Chanca — The first Christian converts and martyrs in the new world / Ramón Pané — Founding Santo Domingo / Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas — The Indian monarchs / Luís Joseph Peguero — Criminals as kings / Bartolomé de Las Casas — A voice in the wilderness: brother Antonio Montesino / Bartolomé de Las Casas — The Royal response / Ferdinand I — Pirates, governors, and slaves — Las Casas blamed for the African slave trade / Augustus Francis MacNutt — The slave problem in Santo Domingo / Alvaro de Castro — Lemba and the Maroons of Hispaniola / Alonso López de Cerrato — Francis Drake’s sacking of Santo Domingo / Walter Bigges — Colonial delinquency / Carlos Esteban Deive — The bulls / Flérida de Nolasco — The buccaneers of Hispaniola / Alexander O. Exquemelin — Business deals with the buccaneers / Jean-Baptiste Labat — The idea of value on Hispaniola / Antonio Sánchez Valverde — Revolutions — The monteros and the guerreros / Manuel Vicente Hernández González — The border Maroons of Le Maniel / Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry — The people-eater / Raymundo González — The Boca Nigua revolt / David Patrick Geggus — Hayti and San Domingo / James Franklin — Toussaint’s conquest / Jonathan Brown — After the war, tertulias / William Walton Jr. — Stupid Spain / Carlos Urrutia de Montoya — The Dominican bolívar / José Nuñez de Cáceres — Profane bell bottoms / César Nicolás Penson — Dominicans unite! / La Trinitaria — Caudillos and empires — Pedro Santana / Miguel Ángel Monclús — The caudillo of the South / Buenaventura Báez — In the army camp at Bermejo / Pedro Francisco Bo
• AIn the midst of revolution, US receivership of Dominican customs — Gavilleros, listín diario — A resignation and a machine gun / Frederic Wise and Meigs O. Frost — The water torture and other abuses, US Senate, hearings before a select committee on Haiti and Santo Domingo — The land of bullet holes / Harry Franck — American sugar kingdom / César J. Ayala — The universal negro improvement association in San Pedro de Macorís, officers and members of the association — The crime of Wilson / Fabio Fiallo — The era of Trujillo — The Haitian massacre / Eyewitnesses — Message to Dominican women / Darío Contreras — The sugar strike of 1946 / Roberto Cassá — Informal resistance on a Dominican sugar plantation / Catherine C. LeGrand — Biography of a great leader / Abelardo Nanita — A diplomat’s diagnosis of the dictator / Richard A. Johnson — A British view of the dictatorship / W. W. McVittie — Exile invasions, anonymous / Armed Forces Magazine — I am Minerva! / Mu-Kien Adriana Sang — The long transition to democracy — Basta ya! : a peasant woman speaks out / Aurora Rosado — Without begging god / Joaquín Balaguer — The masters / Juan Bosch — The rise and demise of democracy, CIA reports, 1961-1963 — Ni mató, ni robó / Juan Bosch — Fashion police / Elías Wessin y Wessin — The revolution of the Magi / José Francisco Peña Gómez — United States intervention in the revolution of 1965 / William Bennett — The president of the United States chooses the next president of the Dominican Republic / Lyndon Johnson — Operation power pack / Lawrence A. Yates — The twelve years / CIA Special Report — Why not, Dr. Balaguer? / Orlando Martínez — Dominican, cut the cane! / State Sugar Council — The blind caudillo / Anonymous — The eat alones of the liberation party / Andres L. Mateo — The election of 2000 / Central Election Commission — The sour taste of US-Dominican sugar policy / Matt Peterson — Leonel, Fidel, and Bara

Subjects:

• Dominican Republic — Civilization.
• Dominican Republic — History.
• Dominican Republic — Social life and customs.
• Civilization. fast (OCoLC)fst00862898
• Manners and customs. fast (OCoLC)fst01007815
• Dominican Republic. fast (OCoLC)fst01206148
• Dominikanische Republik. (DE-588)4012694-8 gnd
• History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628

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