Dictator''s Seduction - Politics and the Popular Imagination in the Era of Trujillo

Informationen zum Autor Lauren Derby is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. Klappentext Analysis of the Dominican dictator Trujillo's influence on Dominican political culture, claiming that authoritarian rulers can mobilize support in ways that have even more to do with social class formation and cultural transmission than with terror and br Zusammenfassung An analysis of the ways that General Rafael Trujillos dictatorship (1930–1961) pervaded everyday life in the Dominican Republics capital, Santo Domingo. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Lauren Derby, Lauren H Derby, Lauren H. Derby, Lauren Hutchinson Derby, Lauren Derby
• Assisted by: Gilbert M. Joseph (Editor)
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.07.2009
• EAN: 9780822344865
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4486-5
• No. of pages: 432
• Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions; American Encounters/Global Int; American Encounters/Global Interactions; American Encounters/Global Int
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous