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Suggestions for Further Reading
General
Atkins
, G. Pope
, and Larman
Wilson
. The Dominican Republic and the United States: From Imperialism to Transnationalism
. Athens
: University of Georgia Press
, 1998
.
Betances
, Emelio
. State and Society in the Dominican Republic
. Boulder, CO
: Westview
, 1995
.
Betances
, Emelio
, and Hobart
Spalding
. Dominican Republic Today: Realities and Perspectives
. New York
: Bilder Center for Western Hemisphere Studies
, 1996
.
Cassá
, Roberto
. Historia social y economica de la República Dominicana
. Santo Domingo
: Alfa y Omega
, 1991
.
Fernández
, Eladio
. Hispaniola: A Photographic Journey through Island Biodiversity
. Cambridge, MA
: Harvard University Press
, 2007
.
Moré
, Gustavo
, et al. Historias para la construcción de la Arquitectura Dominicana, 1492–2008
. Santo Domingo
: Grupo Leon Jiménez
, 2008
.
Moya Pons
, Frank
. The Dominican Republic: A National History
. 3rd ed. Princeton, NJ
: Markus Wiener
, 2010
.
Moya Pons
, Frank
, ed. El siglo XX dominicano: Economía, política, pensamiento y literatura
. Santo Domingo
: CODETEL
, 2002
.
Moya Pons
, Frank
, ed. Historia de la República Dominicana
. Madrid
: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
, 2010
.
San Miguel
, Pedro L.
The Imagined Island: History, Identity and Utopia in Hispaniola
. Chapel Hill
: University of North Carolina Press
, 2009
.
Valdez
, Juan R.
Tracing Dominican Identity: The Writings of Pedro Henríquez Ureña
. New York
: Palgrave Macmillan
, 2011
.
Vega
, Bernardo
. Más imágenes de ayer
. Santo Domingo
: Fundación Cultural Dominicana
, 1988
.
Part I. European Encounters
Arroyo
, Antonio Stevens
. Cave of the Jagua: The Mythological World of the Taínos
. Scranton, PA
: University of Scranton Press
, 2006
.
Bercht
, Fatima
, et al., eds. Taíno: Pre-Columbian Art and Culture from the Caribbean
. New York
: Monacelli
, 1997
.
Las Casas
, Bartolomé de
. The Devastation of the Indies
. Translated by Herma
Briffault
. Baltimore
: Johns Hopkins University Press
, 1992
.
Mann
, Charles C.
1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
. New York
: Knopf
, 2011
.
Rouse
, Irving
. The Tainos: Rise and Decline of the People Who Greeted Columbus
. New Haven, CT
: Yale University Press
, 1993
.
Sale
, Kirkpatrick
. The Conquest of Paradise: Christopher Columbus and the Columbian Legacy
. New York
: Plume
, 1995
.
Wilson
, Samuel M.
The Archaeology of the Caribbean
. Cambridge
: Cambridge University Press
, 2007
.
Wilson
, Samuel M.
Hispaniola: Caribbean Chiefdoms in the Age of Columbus
. Tuscaloosa
: University of Alabama Press
, 1990
.
Part II. Pirates, Governors, and Slaves
Deive Esteban
, Carlos
. La esclavitud del negro en Santo Domingo, 1492–1844
. Vols. 1 and 2
. Santo Domingo
: Museo del Hombre Dominicano
, 1980
.
Deive Esteban
, Carlos
. Los cimarrones del Maniel de Neiba: Historia e etnografía
. Santo Domingo
: Banco Central
, 1985
.
Fraginals
, Moreno Manuel
, Frank Moya
Pons
, and Stanley
Engerman
. Between Slavery and Free Labor: The Spanish-Speaking Caribbean in the Nineteenth Century
. Baltimore
: Johns Hopkins University Press
, 1985
.
González
, Raymundo
. De esclavos a campesinos: Vida rural en el Santo Domingo colonial
. Santo Domingo
: Archivo General de la Nación
, 2011
.
Kelsey
, Harry
. Sir Francis Drake: The Queen's Pirate
. New Haven, CT
: Yale University Press
, 2000
.
Lane
, Kris
. Pillaging the Empire: Piracy in the Americas, 1500–1750
. Armonk, NY
: M. E. Sharpe
, 1998
.
Moya Pons
, Frank
. Cinco siglos de iglesia dominicana
. Santo Domingo
: Editora Amigo del Hogar
, 1987
.
Moya Pons
, Frank
, ed. La vida escandalosa en Santo Domingo en los siglos XVII y XVIII
. Santiago
: Universidad Católico Madre y Maestra
, 1976
.
Price
, Richard
. Maroon Societies: Rebel Slave Communities in the Americas
. 3rd ed. Baltimore
: Johns Hopkins University Press
, 1996
.
Part III. Revolutions
Cruz Sánchez
, Filiberto
. Mella: Biografía política
. Santo Domingo
: Ediciones El Nuevo Diario
, 1996
.
Dubois
, Laurent
. Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution
. Cambridge, MA
: Harvard University Press
, 2005
.
Fick
, Carolyn
. The Making of Haiti: The Saint Domingue Revolution from Below
. Knoxville
: University of Tennessee Press
, 1990
.
Fischer
, Sibylle
. Modernity Disavowed: Haiti and Cultures of Slavery in the Age of Revolution
. Durham, NC
: Duke University Press
, 2004
.
Geggus
, David Patrick
, and Norman
Fiering
. The World of the Haitian Revolution
. Bloomington
: Indiana University Press
, 2009
.
Geggus
, David Patrick
, and David Barry
Gaspar
. A Turbulent Time: The French Revolution and the Greater Caribbean
. Bloomington
: Indiana University Press
, 1997
.
Inoa
, Orlanda
. Biografía de Juan Pablo Duarte
. Santo Domingo
: Editorial Letra Gráfica
, 2008
.
James
, C. L. R.
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
. New York
: Vintage
, 1963
.
Michel
, Emilio Cordero
. La revolución haitiana y Santo Domingo
. Santo Domingo
: Editora Nacional
, 1968
.
Ott
, Thomas O.
The Haitian Revolution, 1789–1804
. Knoxville
: University of Tennessee Press
, 1987
.
Picó
, Fernando
. One Frenchman, Four Revolutions: General Ferrand and the Peoples of the Caribbean
. Princeton, NJ
: Markus Wiener
, 2011
.
Part IV. Caudillos and Empires
Álvarez-López
, Luis
. The Dominican Republic and the Beginning of a Revolutionary Cycle in the Spanish Caribbean: 1861–1898
. Lanham, MD
: University Press of America
, 2009
.
Hernández Flores
, Ismael
. Pedro Santana, totalmente negativo
. Santo Domingo
: Alfa y Omega
, 1984
.
Martínez-Fernández
, Luis
. Torn between Empires: Economy, Society and Patterns of Political Thought in the Hispanic Caribbean, 1840–1878
. Athens
: University of Georgia Press
, 1994
.
Nelson
, W. J.
Almost a Territory: America's Attempt to Annex the Dominican Republic
. Newark
: University of Delaware Press
, 1991
.
Sang
, Mu-Kien Adriana
. Buenaventura Báez, el Caudillo Del Sur
. Santo Domingo
: INTEC
, 1991
.
Part V. The Idea of the Nation: Order and Progress
Alvarez
, Julia
. In the Name of Salomé
. Chapel Hill, NC
: Algonquin Books
, 2000
.
Baud
, Michiel
. Peasants and Tobacco in the Dominican Republic, 1870–1930
. Knoxville
: University of Tennessee Press
, 1995
.
Franks
, Julie Cheryl
. Transformando la propiedad: La tenencia de tierras y los derechos políticos en la región azucarera dominicana, 1880–1930
. Santo Domingo
: Academia Dominicana de Historia
, 2013
.
González
, Raymundo
. Pedro Francisco Bonó, el intelectual de los pobres
. Santo Domingo
: Tobogan
, 2003
.
Hoetink
, Harry
. The Dominican People, 1850–1900
. Baltimore
: Johns Hopkins University Press
, 1982
.
Martínez Vergne
, Teresita
. Nation and Citizen in the Dominican Republic, 1880–1916
. Chapel Hill
: University of North Carolina Press
, 2009
.
Peguero
, Valentina
. The Militarization of Culture in the Dominican Republic, from the Captains General to General Trujillo
. Lincoln
: University of Nebraska Press
, 2004
.
Sang
, Mu-Kien
. Ulises Heureaux: Biografía de un dictador
. Santo Domingo
: Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo
, 1987
.
San Miguel
, Pedro
. La Guerra silenciosa: Las luchas sociales en la ruralia dominicana
. Mexico City
: Instituto de Investigaciones Dr. José María Luis Mora
, 2004
.San Miguel
, Pedro
. Los desvarios de ti noel: Ensayos sobre la producción del saber en el Caribe
. San Juan
: Ediciones Vértigo
, 2001
.
Sommer
, Doris
. Foundational Fictions: The National Romances of Latin America
. Berkeley
: University of California Press
, 1991
.
Sommer
, Doris
. One Master for Another: Populism as Patriarchal Rhetoric in Dominican Novels
. Lanham, MD
: University Press of America
, 1983
.
Zeller
, Neici
. Discursos y espacios demininos en República Dominicana, 1880–1961
. Santo Domingo
: Editorial Letra Gráfica
, 2012
.
Part VI. Dollars, Gunboats, and Bullets
Calder
, Bruce
. The Impact of Intervention: The Dominican Republic during the U.S. Occupation of 1916–1924
. Princeton, NJ
: Markus Wiener
, 2006
.
González
Canalda
, María
Filomena
. Los gavilleros, 1904–1916
. Santo Domingo
: Archivo General de la Nación
, 2008
.
Veeser
, Cyrus
. A World Safe for Capitalism: Dollar Diplomacy and America's Rise to Global Power
. New York
: Columbia University Press
, 2007
.
Welles
, Sumner
. Naboth's Vineyard: The Dominican Republic, 1844–1924
. New York
: Arno
, 1972
.
Part VII. The Era of Trujillo
Alvarez
, Julia
. In the Time of the Butterflies
. Chapel Hill, NC
: Algonquin Books
, 2010
.
Cassá
, Roberto
. Los orígenes del movimiento 14 de Julio
. Santo Domingo
: Editora Universitaria
. 1999
.
Crassweller
, Robert D.
Trujillo: The Life and Times of a Caribbean Dictator
. New York
: MacMillan
, 1966
.
Derby
, Lauren H.
The Dictator's Seduction: Politics and Popular Imagination in the Era of Trujillo
. Durham, NC
: Duke University Press
, 2009
.
Diederich
, Bernard
. Trujillo: The Death of the Dictator
. Princeton, NJ
: Markus Wiener
, 2000
.
García
, Juan Manuel
. La matanza de los haitianos: Genocidio de Trujillo, 1937
. Santo Domingo
: Editora Alfa y Omega
, 1983
.
Roorda
, Eric Paul
. The Dictator Next Door: The Good Neighbor Policy and the Trujillo Regime in the Dominican Republic, 1930–1945
. Durham, NC
: Duke University Press
, 1998
.
Turits
, Richard Lee
. Foundations of Despotism: Peasants, the Trujillo Regime, and Modernity in Dominican History
. Palo Alto, CA
: Stanford University Press
, 2004
.
Vargas Llosa
, Mario
. The Feast of the Goat
. New York
: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux
, 2001
.Vega
, Bernardo
, ed. Control y represión en la dictadura trujillista
. Santo Domingo
: Fundación Cultural Dominicana
, 1986
.
Part VIII. The Long Transition to Democracy
Bosch
, Brian J.
Balaguer and the Dominican Military: Presidential Control of the Factional Officer Corps in the 1960s and 1970s
. Jefferson, NC
: McFarland
, 2007
.
Brea
, Ramonina
. Estado de situación de la democracia dominicana (1978–1992)
. Santiago
: PUCAMAIMA
, 1995
.
Brea
, Ramonina
, and Isis
Duarte
. Entre la calle y la casa: Las mujeres dominicanas y la cultura política a finales del siglo XX
. Santo Domingo
: Profamilia
, 1999
.
Brea
, Ramonina
, Rosario
Espinal
, and Fernando
Valerio-Holguín
, eds. La República Dominicana en el umbral del siglo XXI: Cultura, política y cambio social
. Santiago
: PUCAMAIMA
, 1999
.
Cassá
, Roberto
. Los Doce Años: Contrarevolución y Desarrollismo
. Santo Domingo
: Alfa y Omega
, 1986
.
Chester
, Eric Thomas
. Rag-Tags, Scum and Commies: U.S. Intervention in the Dominican Republic, 1965–1966
. New York
: Monthly Review Press
, 2001
.
Espinal
, Rosario
. Autoritarismo y democracía en la política dominicana
. San José, Costa Rica
: Centro Interamericano de asesoría y promoción estatal, Instituto Interamericano de derechos humanos
, 1987
.Gleijesis
, Piero
. The Dominican Crisis: The 1965 Constitutionalist Revolt and American Intervention
. Baltimore
: Johns Hopkins University Press
, 1978
.
Hartlyn
, Jonathan
. The Struggle for Democratic Politics in the Dominican Republic
. Chapel Hill
: University of North Carolina Press
, 1998
.
Krohn-Hansen
, Christian
. Political Authoritarianism in the Dominican Republic
. New York
: Palgrave Macmillan
, 2009
.
Lowenthal
, Abraham F.
The Dominican Intervention
. Baltimore
: Johns Hopkins University Press
, 1994
.
McPherson
, Alan L.
Yankee No! Anti-Americanism in U.S.-Latin American Relations
. Cambridge, MA
: Harvard University Press
, 2006
.
Part IX. Religious Practices
Andujar
, Carlos
. Identidad cultural y religiosidad popular
. Santo Domingo
: Editora Cole
, 1999
.
Betances
, Emelio
. The Catholic Church and Power Politics in Latin America: The Dominican Case in Comparative Perspective
. Lanham, MD
: Rowman and Littlefield
, 2007
.
Davis
, Martha Ellen
. La otra ciencia: El vodú como religión y medicina popular
. Santo Domingo
: Editora Universitaria
, 1987
.
Davis
, Martha Ellen
. Ruta hacia Liborio: Mesianismo en el sur profundo dominicano
. Santo Domingo
: UNESCO
, 2004
.Deive
, Carlos Esteban
. Vodú y magia en Santo Domingo
. Santo Domingo
: Museo del Hombre Dominicano
, 1979
.
Hernández Soto
, Carlos
. Kalunga Eh! Los Congos de Villa Mella
. Santo Domingo
: Editorial Letra Gráfica
, 2004
.
Hernández Soto
, Carlos
. Morir en Villa Mella: Ritos funerarios dominicanos
. Santo Domingo
: CIASCA
, 1996
.
Lundius
, Jan
, and Mats
Lundahl
. Peasants and Religion: A Socioeconomic Study of Díos Olivorio and the Palma Sola Movement in the Dominican Republic
. New York
: Routledge
, 2000
.
Martínez
, Lusitania
. Palma Sola: Opresión y esperanza (su geografía mítica y social)
. Santo Domingo
: Ediciones CEDEE
, 1991
.
Ripley
, George
. Imágenes de possession: Vodú dominicano
. Santo Domingo
: Cocolo Editorial
, 2002
.
Savino
, Giovanni
. La comarca fija de Liborio
. Makonda, IL
: Earthcds
.Savino
, Giovanni
. Misterios
. Makonda, IL
: Earthcds
.Part X. Popular Culture
Austerlitz
, Paul
. Merengue: Dominican Music and Dominican Identity
. Philadelphia
: Temple University Press
, 1997
.
Brennan
, Denise
. What's Love Got to Do with It? Transnational Desires and Sex Tourism in the Dominican Republic
. Durham, NC
: Duke University Press
, 2004
.
Cabezas
, Amalia
. Economies of Desire: Sex and Tourism in Cuba and the Dominican Republic
. Philadelphia
: Temple University Press
, 2009
.
Carruyo
, Light
. Producing Knowledge, Protecting Forests: Rural Encounters with Gender, Ecotourism and International Aid in the Dominican Republic
. University Park
: Pennsylvania State University Press
, 2008
.
Castillo
, José del
, and Manuel A. García
Arévalo
. Anthology of the Merengue
. Santo Domingo
: Banco Antillano
, 1989
.
Davis
, Martha Ellen
. Aspectos de la influencia africana en la música tradicional dominicana
. Santo Domingo
: Museo del Hombre Dominicano
, 1980
.
Davis
, Martha Ellen
. Voces del purgatorio: Estudio del salve dominicana
. Santo Domingo
: Museo del Hombre Dominicano
, 1981
.
Duarte
, Isis
. Los hogares dominicanos: El mito de la “familia ideal” y los tipos de jefaturas del hogar
. Santo Domingo
: Instituto de Estudios de Población y Desarrollo
, 1995
.
Klein
, Allan M.
Sugarball: The American Game, the Dominican Dream
. New Haven, CT
: Yale University Press
, 1991
.
Lizardo
, Fradique
. Cultura Africana en Santo Domingo
. Santo Domingo
: Editora Taller
, 1979
.
Lizardo
, Fradique
. Danzas y bailes folklóricos dominicanos
. Santo Domingo
: Fundación García Arévalo
, 1975
.
Maggiolo
, Marcio Veloz
, Pedro Delgado
Malagón
, and José del
Castillo
. Bolero: Visiones y perfiles de una pasión dominicana
. Santo Domingo
: CODETEL
, 2009
.
Pacini-Hernández
, Deborah
. Bachata: A Social History of Dominican Popular Culture
. Philadelphia
: Temple University Press
, 1995
.
Padilla
, Mark
. Caribbean Pleasure Industry: Tourism, Sexuality and aids in the Dominican Republic
. Chicago
: University of Chicago Press
, 2007
.
Ruck
, Rob
. The Tropic of Baseball: Baseball in the Dominican Republic
. Lincoln, NE
: Bison Books
, 1991
.
Saez
, José L.
Historia de un sueño importado: Ensayos sobre el cine en Santo Domingo
. Santo Domingo
: Ediciones Siboney
, 1983
.
Savino
, Giovanni
. Culture of Palo: Palo Music and Oral Traditions from the Dominican Republic
. Makonda, IL
: Earthcds
.Tejeda
Ortíz
, Juan
Dagoberto
. Atlas folklórico de la República Dominicana
. Santo Domingo
: Editorial Santillana
, 2003
.
Tejeda Ortíz
, Juan Dagoberto
. El carnaval dominicano: Antecedentes, tendencias y perspectivas
. República Dominicana
: Instituto Panamericano de Geografía e Historia, Sección Nacional de Dominicana
, 2008
.Vargas
, Tahira
. De la casa a la calle: Estudio de la familia y vecindad en un barrio de Santo Domingo
. Santo Domingo
: Editora Búho
, 1998
.
Vega
, Bernardo
, ed. Dominican Cultures: The Making of a Caribbean Society
. Princeton, NJ
: Marcus Wiener
, 2007
.
Part XI. The Dominican Diaspora
Alvarez
, Julia
. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents
. Chapel Hill, NC
: Algonquin Books
, 2010
.
Breton
, Marcos
, and José Luis
Villegas
. Away Games: The Life and Times of a Latin Baseball Player
. Albuquerque
: University of New Mexico Press
, 1999
.
Candelario
, Ginetta
. Black behind the Ears: Dominican Racial Identity from Museums to Beauty Shops
. Durham, NC
: Duke University Press
, 2007
.
Fischkin
, Barbara
. Muddy Cup: A Dominican Family Comes of Age in a New America
. New York
: Scribner
, 1997
.
Gregory
, Steven
. The Devil behind the Mirror: Globalization and Politics in the Dominican Republic
. Berkeley
: University of California Press
, 2006
.
Hoffnung-Garskof
, Jesse
. A Tale of Two Cities: Santo Domingo and New York after 1950
. Princeton, NJ
: Princeton University Press
, 2007
.
Hudes
, Quiaria Alegria
, and Lin-Manuel
Miranda
. In the Heights: The Complete Book and Lyrics of the Broadway Musical
. New York
: Applause Theater and Cinema Books
, 2013
.
Levitt
, Peggy
. The Transnational Villagers
. Berkeley
: University of California Press
, 2001
.
Marichal
, Juan
, and Lew
Freedman
. Juan Marichal: My Journey from the Dominican Republic to Cooperstown
. Minneapolis
: MVP Books
, 2011
.
Méndez
, Danny
. Narratives of Migration and Displacement in Dominican Literature
. London
: Routledge
, 2012
.
Pessar
, Patricia
, and Sherri
Grasmuck
. Between Two Islands: Dominican International Migration
. Berkeley
: University of California Press
, 1991
.
Safa
, Helen
. The Myth of the Male Breadwinner: Women and Industrialization in the Caribbean
. Boulder, CO
: Westview
, 1999
.