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Essay
Social Composition of the Dominican Republic
Composición social dominicana: historia e interpretación
Juan Bosch · 1970
Synopsis
The history of the Dominican social classes and groups, from the first encounter between Europeans and the inhabitants of the island to the middle of the twentieth century: cattle ranchers and planters, sugar oligarchs, rivalries of the empires in the Caribbean, effects of the Haitian revolution, the American occupation, the rise of Trujillo. The author explains the country's civil wars by the struggle waged among the strata of a numerous petty bourgeoisie.
Context
According to Acento, the author wrote the book in 1968, in Spain, during his second exile; it appeared in 1970. In it he applies a class-struggle reading to the country's internal wars, which, in his view, had no ideological orientation. Routledge published the first English translation in 2016, introduced by the sociologist Wilfredo Lozano, in a series of classics of Dominican studies.
Who it is for
In Spanish, translated into English; a work of social history, to be read knowing that its author was also a statesman.
Prizes and reception
A reference work for Dominican history, chosen by a British university press for translation.
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