Foundations of Despotism: Peasants, the Trujillo Regime, and Modernity in Dominican History

by RichardLeeTurits (Author)

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  Paperback
  2004

  $41.75

  Explores the history of the Dominican Republic as it evolved from the first European colony in the Americas into a modern nation under the rule of Rafael Trujillo. It investigates the social foundations of Trujillo's enduring and brutal dictatorship (1930-1961) and, more broadly, the way power is sustained in such non-democratic regimes.