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Foundations of despotism : peasants, the Trujillo regime, and modernity in Dominican history / Richard Lee Turits.

by Turits, Richard Lee.

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Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2003.

Trujillo Molina, Rafael Leónidas, 1891-1961.

Peasants -- Dominican Republic -- Political activity.

Agriculture and state -- Dominican Republic -- History -- 20th century.

Dominican Republic -- History -- 1930-1961.

0804743533 (cloth : alk. paper)

9780804743532 (cloth : alk. paper)

0804751056 (pbk : alk. paper)

9780804751056 (pbk : alk. paper)

x, 384 p. : map ; 24 cm.

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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.

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