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Combining intellectual and social history, Teresita Martinez-Vergne explores the processes by which people in the Dominican Republic began to hammer out a common sense of purpose and a modern national identity at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. Hoping to build a nation of hardworking, peaceful, voting citizens, the Dominican intelligentsia impressed on the rest of society a discourse of modernity based on secular...

10) La Fiesta del Chivo

Author:

Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936-

Series:

Contemporanea

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Spanish

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1 of 1	MCPLD Central Forgn Lang	SPANISH Fiction VARGASLL Mario
1 of 1	MCPLD Clifton Foreign Language	SPANISH Fic VARGAS L Mario
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1 of 1	WCU Book Stacks	PQ8498.32.A65 F54 2004

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11) The struggle for democratic politics in the Dominican Republic

Author:

Hartlyn, Jonathan

Series:

H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman

Pub. Date:

2017

Lexile measure:

1520L

Language:

English

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Over the past several decades, the Dominican Republic has experienced striking political stagnation in spite of dramatic socioeconomic transformations. In this work, Jonathan Hartlyn offers a new explanation for the country's political evolution, based on a broad comparative perspective. Hartlyn rejects cultural explanations unduly focused on legacies from the Spanish colonial era and structural explanations excessively centered on the lack of national...

12) Rains of injustice

Pub. Date:

2010

Language:

Spanish

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1 of 1	TELL WPL Video	DVD ESPAÑOL R RAINS

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1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

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Set in the 1950s and based on a true story, sisters from a wealthy family find the courage to take a stand against Rafael Trujillo, the brutal dictator of the Dominican Republic.