Currently one of the biggest tourist destinations in the Caribbean, the Dominican Republic has much more to offer than its idyllic beaches. "Dominican Republic in Focus" is a authoritative and up-to-date guide to this vibrant country. It explores the land, history and politics, economy, society and people, culture and includes tips on where to go and what to see. Photos and maps.
The Dominican Republic is home to some of the best beaches in the world.
Dominican Republic: A Guide to the People, Politics, and Culture
Combining intellectual and social history, Teresita Martnez-Vergne explores the processes by which people in the Dominican Republic began to hammer out a common sense of purpose and a modern national...
Analysis of Evangelical Christianity in the Dominican Republic: Focus on Two Historical Protestant Churches : the African Methodist Episcopal Church...
Product Description: This updated and expanded edition extends the narrative from 1990 to the first decade of the present century, beginning with the collapse of the Dominican economy.
The Dominican Republic, though the fastest-growing economy in Latin America and the Caribbean since 2010, cannot afford complacency.
Over the past several decades, the Dominican Republic has experienced striking political stagnation in spite of dramatic socioeconomic transformations. In this work, Jonathan Hartlyn offers a new...
This book focuses on the Dominican Republic's strategic and political importance and its position as a pacesetter, a microcosm, a crucible of Latin American social and political change, viewing the Dominican Republic in the light of its own ...
While the Dominican state was in profound crisis, new political parties, labor unions, student organizations, ... it changed its policy several times during 1961 in an attempt to respond to the volatile state of Dominican politics.
A history of the Dominican Republic from pre-Columbian times to the present. The book focuses on the merger of three cultures across time - the indiginous cultures of the Caribbean, the Iberians of southern Europe and the Africans.