The question of how U.S. foreign policy should manage relations with autocratic governments, particularly in the Caribbean and Latin America, has always been difficult and complex. In "The Dictator Next Door" Eric Paul Roorda focuses on the relations between the U.S. and the Dominican Republic following Rafael Trujillo s seizure of power in 1930. Examining the transition from the noninterventionist policies of the Hoover administration to Roosevelt s Good Neighbor policy, Roorda blends diplomatic history with analyses of domestic politics in both countries not only to explore the political...
The question of how U.S. foreign policy should manage relations with autocratic governments, particularly in the Caribbean and Latin America, has alwa...
Despite its significance in the history of Spanish colonialism, the Dominican Republic is familiar to most outsiders through only a few elements of its past and culture. Non-Dominicans may be aware that the country shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti and that it is where Christopher Columbus chose to build a colony. Some may know that the country produces talented baseball players and musicians; others that it is a prime destination for beach vacations. Little else about the Dominican Republic is common knowledge outside its borders. This Reader seeks to change that. It provides an...
Despite its significance in the history of Spanish colonialism, the Dominican Republic is familiar to most outsiders through only a few elements of it...
Eric Paul Roorda Lauren H. Derby Raymundo Gonzalez
Despite its significance in the history of Spanish colonialism, the Dominican Republic is familiar to most outsiders through only a few elements of its past and culture. Non-Dominicans may be aware that the country shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti and that it is where Christopher Columbus chose to build a colony. Some may know that the country produces talented baseball players and musicians; others that it is a prime destination for beach vacations. Little else about the Dominican Republic is common knowledge outside its borders. This Reader seeks to change that. It provides an...
Despite its significance in the history of Spanish colonialism, the Dominican Republic is familiar to most outsiders through only a few elements of it...
The question of how U.S. foreign policy should manage relations with autocratic governments, particularly in the Caribbean and Latin America, has always been difficult and complex. In "The Dictator Next Door" Eric Paul Roorda focuses on the relations between the U.S. and the Dominican Republic following Rafael Trujillo s seizure of power in 1930. Examining the transition from the noninterventionist policies of the Hoover administration to Roosevelt s Good Neighbor policy, Roorda blends diplomatic history with analyses of domestic politics in both countries not only to explore the political...
The question of how U.S. foreign policy should manage relations with autocratic governments, particularly in the Caribbean and Latin America, has alwa...
The colony called Santo Domingo, which became the Dominican Republic, was the violent crucible in which the ingredients of the New World, drawn from America, Europe and Africa, were fused together for the first time: humans, religions, technologies, animals, plants and learned behaviors. The history of the Dominican Republic diverged from the patterns established by the rest of Latin America, as it ultimately gained independence not from Spain, but from Haiti, and Spain later recolonized the country during a watershed period in the 1860s. In the 20th century, the United States occupied the...
The colony called Santo Domingo, which became the Dominican Republic, was the violent crucible in which the ingredients of the New World, drawn from A...
