Dictatorship, Development and Disintegration ... Vol. 1 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dictatorship, Development and Disintegration ... Vol. 1 write by Howard J. Wiarda. This book was released on 1975. Dictatorship, Development and Disintegration ... Vol. 1 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Dictatorship, Development, and Disintegration
Dictatorship, Development, and Disintegration - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dictatorship, Development, and Disintegration write by Howard J. Wiarda. This book was released on 1975. Dictatorship, Development, and Disintegration available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Dictator's Seduction
The Dictator's Seduction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Dictator's Seduction write by Lauren H. Derby. This book was released on 2009-07-17. The Dictator's Seduction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo, who ruled the Dominican Republic from 1930 until his assassination in 1961, was one of the longest and bloodiest in Latin American history. The Dictator’s Seduction is a cultural history of the Trujillo regime as it was experienced in the capital city of Santo Domingo. Focusing on everyday forms of state domination, Lauren Derby describes how the regime infiltrated civil society by fashioning a “vernacular politics” based on popular idioms of masculinity and fantasies of race and class mobility. Derby argues that the most pernicious aspect of the dictatorship was how it appropriated quotidian practices such as gossip and gift exchange, leaving almost no place for Dominicans to hide or resist. Drawing on previously untapped documents in the Trujillo National Archives and interviews with Dominicans who recall life under the dictator, Derby emphasizes the role that public ritual played in Trujillo’s exercise of power. His regime included the people in affairs of state on a massive scale as never before. Derby pays particular attention to how events and projects were received by the public as she analyzes parades and rallies, the rebuilding of Santo Domingo following a major hurricane, and the staging of a year-long celebration marking the twenty-fifth year of Trujillo’s regime. She looks at representations of Trujillo, exploring how claims that he embodied the popular barrio antihero the tíguere (tiger) stoked a fantasy of upward mobility and how a rumor that he had a personal guardian angel suggested he was uniquely protected from his enemies. The Dictator’s Seduction sheds new light on the cultural contrivances of autocratic power.
Why the Cocks Fight
Why the Cocks Fight - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Why the Cocks Fight write by Michele Wucker. This book was released on 2014-04-08. Why the Cocks Fight available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Like two roosters in a fighting arena, Haiti and the Dominican Republic are encircled by barriers of geography and poverty. They co-inhabit the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, but their histories are as deeply divided as their cultures: one French-speaking and black, one Spanish-speaking and mulatto. Yet, despite their antagonism, the two countries share a national symbol in the rooster--and a fundamental activity and favorite sport in the cockfight. In this book, Michele Wucker asks: "If the symbols that dominate a culture accurately express a nation's character, what kind of a country draws so heavily on images of cockfighting and roosters, birds bred to be aggressive? What does it mean when not one but two countries that are neighbors choose these symbols? Why do the cocks fight, and why do humans watch and glorify them?" Wucker studies the cockfight ritual in considerable detail, focusing as much on the customs and histories of these two nations as on their contemporary lifestyles and politics. Her well-cited and comprehensive volume also explores the relations of each nation toward the United States, which twice invaded both Haiti (in 1915 and 1994) and the Dominican Republic (in 1916 and 1965) during the twentieth century. Just as the owners of gamecocks contrive battles between their birds as a way of playing out human conflicts, Wucker argues, Haitian and Dominican leaders often stir up nationalist disputes and exaggerate their cultural and racial differences as a way of deflecting other kinds of turmoil. Thus Why the Cocks Fight highlights the factors in Caribbean history that still affect Hispaniola today, including the often contradictory policies of the U.S.
Dictatorship, Developement an Disintegration
Dictatorship, Developement an Disintegration - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dictatorship, Developement an Disintegration write by Howard J. Wiarda. This book was released on 1975. Dictatorship, Developement an Disintegration available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
