Table of Contents

1. Introducing Quisqueya 2. The People of the Dominican Republic 3. The Indigenous Heritage 4. The Spanish Heritage 5. Voices of Opposition 6. The Renegades: Marginal People 7. Los Cimarrones: Another Transfrontier Culture 8. The Africans: An Early Presence 9. Azucar: The Advent and Decline of Sugar 10. Hispaniola's Slave-Labor Plantation Economy 11. Hispaniola's Century of Misery 12. Hispaniola's Demographic Expansion: Interior Colonization 13. The Neighbor to the West: Saint-Domingue 14. The Haitian Revolution and the Neighbor to the East 15. The After-Shock: Consequences of the Haitian Revolution 16. French, then Haitian, Domination of Santo Domingo 17. A Haitian President in Santo Domingo18. After Independence, More War 19. After Restoration, More Chaos 20. Invasion from the Northern Colossus 21. The Era of Trujillo: 1930-1961 22. Living in the Shadow of Trujillo 23. Conclusions: Dreaming Jointly in Defining Dominican Culture