.... Index. xv, 575 pp. Cloth, $59.95. Paper, $19.95; The Dictator Next Door: The Good Neighbor Policy and the Trujillo Regime in the Dominican Republic,1930-1945. By eric paul roorda. American Encounters/Global Interactions. Durham: Duke University Press, 1998. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xii...

...Lauren Derby 2003 by Duke University Press 2003 In the Shadow of the State: The Politics of Denunciation and Panegyric during the Trujillo Regime in the Dominican Republic, 1940–1958 Lauren Derby Mr. Lucho Nuñez Soriano, the principal member of the tributary services of this...

...Richard Lee Turits 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 A World Destroyed, A Nation Imposed: The 1937 Haitian Massacre in the Dominican Republic Richard Lee Turits Forgetting, I would go so far as to say historical error, is a crucial factor in the creation of a nation, which is...

...Sol Serrano Chile: The Making of a Republic, 1830–1865: Politics and Ideas. By simon collier. Cambridge Latin American Studies, no. 89. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Map. Bibliography. Index. xxi, 271 pp. Cloth, $65.00. 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 Book Reviews...

...Lowell Gudmundson Nicaragua's Conservative Republic, 1858-93. By arturo j. cruz jr. London: St. Anthony's Oxford, 2002. Tables. Index. 196 pp. Paper. 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 Book Reviews General Central Africans and Cultural Transformations in the American Diaspora...

...Valeria Coronel The Plebeian Republic: The Huanta Rebellion and the Making of the Peruvian State, 1820-1850 . By cecilia méndez. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005. Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xvi, 343 pp. Cloth, $84.95. Paper, $23.95. Duke University...

...Guadalupe García Black Political Activism and the Cuban Republic . By Pappademos Melina . Envisioning Cuba . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2011 . Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xi, 324 pp. Cloth , $39.95 . Copyright 2013 by Duke University...

...Bruce J. Calder Nation and Citizen in the Dominican Republic, 1880-1916 . By teresita martínez-vergne. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. Photographs. Illustration. Maps. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xviii, 235 pp. Cloth, $59.95. Paper, $24.95. Duke University...

...Ulrich Muecke Crafting the Republic: Lima's Artisans and Nation Building in Peru, 1821-1879 By iñigo l. garcía-bryce. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2004. Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Figure. Bibliography. Index. xv, 220 pp. Cloth, $39.95. Duke University Press 2007...

...David Block Landscapes of Power and Identity: Comparative Histories in the Sonoran Desert and the Forests of Amazonia from Colony to Republic . By cynthia radding. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005. Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. xxiv, 431 pp...

.... Subsequent volumes promise to take on the histories of Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, the non-­Hispanic Caribbean, and finally, a comparative study of the region. Organized thematically and comprised of chapters by a variety of Cuba scholars, it offers both an encyclopedic rehearsal of...

...Eric Paul Roorda The Militarization of Culture in the Dominican Republic, from the Captains General to General Trujillo. By valentina peguero. Studies in War, Society, and the Military. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. Photographs. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. x, 263 pp...

...Catalina Muñoz This article examines the cultural programs developed by reformist intellectuals and artists working for the Colombian government during the period known as the Liberal Republic (1930-1946). It explores the implementation of two music programs in particular, the orfeones obreros and...

... levels. Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 State of Ambiguity: Civic Life and Culture in Cuba's First Republic . Edited by Palmer Steven , Piqueras José Antonio , and Cobos Amparo Sánchez . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2014 . Illustration. Maps. Figures...

...Ellen D. Tillman Abstract In the early 1900s, the US government experimented with what they saw as a progressive style of influence in the Dominican Republic. While the Roosevelt and Taft administrations sought alternatives to armed intervention, US officers serving as diplomats pushed for more...

... (especially the Marine Corps archive in Quantico) and the Dominican Republic (particularly the Archivo General de la Nación) to assemble this accessible account of an important but understudied event. It complements the work of Bruce Calder and Alan McPherson. The thesis emerges in a concise exposition of...

...John Soluri A Camera in the Garden of Eden: The Self-Forging of a Banana Republic . By Coleman Kevin . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2016 . Photographs. Plates. Notes. Bibliography. Index. 312 pp. Paper , $27.95 . Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017...

... Hispanic juridical and political culture” [p. 1]), and, on the other hand, “the Hidalgo Revolt.” “We Are Now the True Spaniards”: Sovereignty, Revolution, Independence, and the Emergence of the Federal Republic of Mexico, 1808–1824 . By Rodríguez O. Jaime E. Stanford, CA : Stanford University...

...Ana S. Q. Liberato The Mulatto Republic: Class, Race, and Dominican National Identity . By Mayes April J. . Gainesville : University Press of Florida , 2014 . Photographs. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiii, 195 pp. Cloth , $69.95 . Copyright © 2015 by...

...Anne Eller Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 The Dominican Republic Reader is a valuable and eminently teachable collection that benefits from the varied interests and deep expertise of its editors. The collection is temporally balanced, beginning with entries about pre...