TY  - BOOK
AU  - Turits,Richard Lee
TI  - Foundations of despotism: peasants, the Trujillo regime, and modernity in Dominican history 
SN  - 0804743533 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - HD1531.D6 T87 2003
U1  - 972.9305/3/092B 21
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Stanford, Calif.
PB  - Stanford University Press
KW  - Trujillo Molina, Rafael Leónidas,
KW  - Agriculture and state
KW  - Dominican Republic
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Peasantry
KW  - Political activity
KW  - 1930-1961
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-368) and index; Freedom in El Monte : from slaves to independent peasants in colonial Santo Domingo -- Imagining modernity : peasants, property, and the state in the century after independence -- Peasant-state compromise and rural transformation under the Trujillo dictatorship -- Negotiating dictatorship : landowners, state officials, and everyday contests over agrarian reform --; Bordering the nation : race, colonization, and the 1937 Haitian massacre in the Dominican frontier -- Taming the countryside : agricultural colonies as rural reform under the Trujillo regime -- Memories of dictatorship : rural culture and everyday forms of state formation under Trujillo -- The birth of a Dominican sugar empire and the decline of the Trujillo regime
ER  -