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 Dominican Republic on two formative occasions,
from 1916 to 1924 and again in 1965-1966, interventions detailed in
this volume. At every turn, the backdrop to this pattern of shaky
sovereignty has been the extreme instability of Dominican politics,
which has been punctuated by incessant civil wars, coups, and
periods of dictatorship, until the last few decades. The Historical
Dictionary of the Dominican Republic contains a chronology, an
introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The
dictionary section has over 500 cross-referenced entries on
important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations,
religion, and culture. This book is an excellent access point for
students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the
Dominican Republic.
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