Lauren H. Derby

The Dictator's Seduction

Politics and the Popular Imagination in the Era of Trujillo

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Produktbeschreibung

An analysis of the ways that General Rafael Trujillos dictatorship (1930-1961) pervaded everyday life in the Dominican Republics capital, Santo Domingo.

Produktdetails

• American Encounters/Global Interactions
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juli 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 596g
• ISBN-13: 9780822344827
• ISBN-10: 0822344823
• Artikelnr.: 25877192

Autorenporträt

Lauren Derby

Inhaltsangabe

Preface ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction. Populism as Vernacular Practice 1
1. The Dominican Belle Époque, 1922 25
2. San Zenón and the Making of Cuidad Trujillo 66
3. The Master of Ceremonies 109
4. Compatriotas! El Jefe Calls 135
5. Clothes Make the Man 173
6. Trujillo's Two Bodies 204
7. Papá Liborio and the Morality of Rule 227
Conclusion. Charisma and the Gift of Recognition 257
Notes 267
Bibliography 353
Index 393