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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777526003321

Autore

Martínez Vergne Teresita

Titolo

Nation & citizen in the Dominican Republic, 1880-1916 [[electronic resource] /] / Teresita Martínez-Vergne

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2005

ISBN

979-88-908792-2-6

0-8078-7692-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p.)

Disciplina

972.93/04

Soggetti

Nationalism - Dominican Republic - History

National characteristics, Dominican

Citizenship - Dominican Republic

Dominican Republic Intellectual life

Dominican Republic Politics and government 1844-1930

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-222) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The national project -- The city as the site of citizenship -- Race in the formation of nationality -- Representing bourgeois womanhood -- Working people in the city -- Claiming citizenship from below.

Sommario/riassunto

Combining intellectual and social history, this book explores the processes by which people in the Dominican Republic began to hammer out a common sense of purpose and a modern national identity, at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries.