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Author Alvarez López, Luis.

Title The Dominican Republic and the beginning of a revolutionary cycle in the Spanish Caribbean, 1861-1898 / Luis Álvarez López
Published Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 102 pages)
Contents Seventeen fundamental conclusions about the annexation to Spain and the Restoration War of the Dominican Republic: 1861-1865 -- Kidnapping the rebels' goods: state and society under the last Spanish domination of Quisqueya (1863-1865) -- Santo Domingo, Puerto Rico and Cuba: between national independence and Spanish colonialism 1844-1859 -- Ramon Emeterio Betances and the revolutionary cycle in the Spanish Caribbean (from the Restoration War to the Cuban Spanish American Philippines War 1864-1898) -- The Spanish soldiers in the last campaign of Santo Domingo: diseases, injuries, disables and deaths 1861-1865
Summary In this book, Alvarez-López details the history of revolution in the Dominican Republic, which was an infant independent nation struggling to preserve its political independence from Haiti and from the expansionist policies of northern European countries and the United States. In 1861, the Dominican Republic was annexed to Spain. The Spanish empire expansionist policy sought to preserve Cuba and Puerto Rico, and the acquisition of the Dominican Republic strengthened Spain's hold on the Antilles Empire. Spain's policies strengthened the political objectives of the Dominican ruling class, which were political stability and control of the political power under a Caucasian empire. While both these objectives were achieved, the new colonial experiment was a total failure. The exclusion of the native ruling class, over taxation, economic exploitation, coercive imposition of the Catholic Church customs, prejudice against blacks and mulattos led to war, ending with the defeat of the Spanish Empire. This defeat opened a revolutionary cycle in the Spanish Caribbean
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 91-96) and index
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Subject HISTORY -- Caribbean & West Indies -- General.
SUBJECT Dominican Republic -- History -- 1844-1930. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85038981
Dominican Republic -- Annexation to Spain
Subject República Dominicana -- Historia -- 1844-1930
República Dominicana -- Historia -- 1861-1865 (Reincorporación a España)
Dominican Republic
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021679002
ISBN 9780761847151
0761847154
128361572X
9781283615723
9786613928177
6613928178