Allen Wells

Gebundenes Buch

Tropical Zion

General Trujillo, Fdr, and the Jews of Sosúa

Beschreibung

A history of a colony of European Jewish refugees in the Dominican Republic, examined in the context of US refugee policy during World War II and US-Dominican relations.

Autor

Allen Wells is the Roger Howell Jr. Professor of History at Bowdoin College. He is the author of Yucatán’s Gilded Age: Haciendas, Henequen, and International Harvester, 1860–1915; a co-author of Summer of Discontent, Seasons of Upheaval: Elite Politics and Rural Rebellion in Yucatán, 1876–1915; and a co-editor of The Second Conquest of Latin America: Coffee, Henequen, and Oil during the Export Boom, 1850–1930.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Januar 2009
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 826g
• ISBN-13: 9780822343899
• ISBN-10: 0822343894
• Artikelnr.: 25882132