{"product_id":"foundations-of-despotism-9780804751056","title":"Foundations of Despotism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExplores the history of the Dominican Republic as it evolved from the first European colony in the Americas into a modern nation under the rule of Rafael Trujillo. It investigates the social foundations of Trujillo's enduring and brutal dictatorship (1930-1961) and, more broadly, the way power is sustained in such non-democratic regimes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"One of the best works ever done on the Dominican Republic, this wonderful book goes a long way toward explaining not only the long-lived Trujillo dictatorship but subsequent Dominican social and political history as well. It is also a powerful critique of the simplistic demonizing of the Caribbean dictatorial model of politics attached to strongmen like Trujillo, Somoza, and Duvalier.\"—Lowell Gudmundson, Mount Holyoke College\u003cbr\u003e\"...It becomes clear that \u003ci\u003eFoundations of Despotism\u003c\/i\u003e is indeed a sophisticated, scholarly antidote to many of the works on the Trujillo regime that have come out in the past four decades...\"—Canadian Journal of History\u003cbr\u003e\"[T]his is an elegantly written, extensively documented, and superbly argued work. Turits combines traditional, archival work with innovative forms of oral history, and no doubt it will stand the test of time as a fundamental text in the historiography of the Caribbean.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe Americas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Turits has given us a solid and original contribution to the vast literature on Rafael Leonidas Trujillo as well as a splendid contribution to the growing literature on peasants, modernization, and social change.\"—\u003ci\u003eCanadian Journal of Latin American \u0026amp; Caribbean Studies\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405560815959,"sku":"9780804751056","price":22.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804751056.jpg?v=1730492834","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/foundations-of-despotism-9780804751056","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}