The dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo, who ruled the Dominican Republic from 1930 until his
assassination in 1961, was one of the longest and bloodiest in Latin American history. The …

The question of how US foreign policy should manage relations with autocratic
governments, particularly in the Caribbean and Latin America, has always been difficult and …

Clara Irazábal and her contributors explore the urban history of some of Latin America's
great cities through studies of their public spaces and what has taken place there. The …

La producción cultural contemporánea de las islas del Caribe hispano incluye textos que se
caracterizan por su posición incómoda con respecto de la doxa cultural que les sirve de …

In 1955, a Free World's Fair of Peace and Confraternity was held in the Caribbeanisland
nation of the Dominican Republic to celebrate the twenty-fifth year of the regime of …

What is' authoritarian rule'and is it best studied? Using the Dominican Republic, this book
investigates new methods of analysis, arguing that it should be imperative to approach …

Esta pieza etnográfica discute la construcción de “sujetos regenerados”, una forma de
subjetividad política que forma parte del proceso de renovación urbana implantado por la …

This article analyses feminism in the Dominican Republic, and the rightward shift of the
women's movement in the 1930s and 1940s, by examining the historical development of …

This series aims to present cutting-edge developments and debates within the field of
sociology. It will provide a broad range of case studies and the latest theoretical …

In the social imaginaries of the Dominican Republic, national culture has its origins in el
campo, the countryside. Country spaces and country people are viewed as embodying the …