Suchergebnisse

The Dominican Belle Époque, 1922 -- San Zenon and the making of Ciudad Trujillo -- The master of ceremonies -- Compatriotas! el jefe calls -- Clothes make the man -- Trujillo's two bodies -- Papa Liborio and the morality of rule -- Charisma and the gift of recognition.

European encounters -- The people who greeted Columbus / Irving Rouse -- Religion of the Taíno people / Ramón Pané -- First descriptions of the land, first violence against its people / Christopher Columbus -- Death of the Spanish at Navidad / Diego Alvarez Chanca -- The first Christian converts and martyrs in the new world / Ramón Pané -- Founding Santo Domingo / Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas -- The Indian monarchs / Luís Joseph Peguero -- Criminals as kings / Bartolomé de Las Casas -- A voice in the wilderness: brother Antonio Montesino / Bartolomé de Las Casas -- The Royal response / Ferdinand I -- Pirates, governors, and slaves -- Las Casas blamed for the African slave trade / Augustus Francis MacNutt -- The slave problem in Santo Domingo / Alvaro de Castro -- Lemba and the Maroons of Hispaniola / Alonso López de Cerrato -- Francis Drake's sacking of Santo Domingo / Walter Bigges -- Colonial delinquency / Carlos Esteban Deive -- The bulls / Flérida de Nolasco -- The buccaneers of Hispaniola / Alexander O. Exquemelin -- Business deals with the buccaneers / Jean-Baptiste Labat -- The idea of value on Hispaniola / Antonio Sánchez Valverde -- Revolutions -- The monteros and the guerreros / Manuel Vicente Hernández González -- The border Maroons of Le Maniel / Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry -- The people-eater / Raymundo González -- The Boca Nigua revolt / David Patrick Geggus -- Hayti and San Domingo / James Franklin -- Toussaint's conquest / Jonathan Brown -- After the war, tertulias / William Walton Jr. -- Stupid Spain / Carlos Urrutia de Montoya -- The Dominican bolívar / José Nuñez de Cáceres -- Profane bell bottoms / César Nicolás Penson -- Dominicans unite! / La Trinitaria -- Caudillos and empires -- Pedro Santana / Miguel Ángel Monclús -- The caudillo of the South / Buenaventura Báez -- In the army camp at Bermejo / Pedro Francisco Bonó -- The war of the restoration / Carlos Vargas -- Spanish recolonization: a postmortem, US Commission of Inquiry to Santo Domingo -- Making the case for US annexation / Ulysses S. Grant -- Dominican support for annexation, US Commission of Inquiry to Santo Domingo -- Opposition to US annexation / Justin S. Morrill -- Dominican nationalism versus annexation / Gregorio Luperón -- A lesson in "quiet good-breeding" / Samuel Hazard -- Martí's travel notes / José Martí -- Ulises "Lilís" Heureaux / Américo Lugo -- Your friend, Ulises / Ulises Heureaux -- The idea of the nation: order and progress -- Street people and godparents / Luis Emilio Gómez Alfau -- From Paris to Santo Domingo / Francisco Moscoso Puello -- Public enemies: the revolutionary and the pig / Emiliano Tejera -- The "master of décimas" / Juan Antonio Alix -- Barriers to progress: revolutions, diseases, holidays, and cockfights / Pedro Francisco Bonó -- Food, race, and nation / Lauren Derby -- Tobacco to the rescue / Pedro Francisco Bonó -- Patrons, peasants, and tobacco / Michiel Baud -- Salomé, Salomé / Ureña de Henríquez -- The case for commerce, 1907, Dominican Department of Promotion and public works -- Dollars, gunboats, and bullets -- Uneasiness about the US Government / Emiliano Tejera.