State And Society In The Dominican Republic

Emelio Betances is associate professor of sociology and Latin American studies at Gettysburg College.

• Introduction: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives, 1 Nineteenth-Century Regionalism, Political Struggle, and State Formation, 2 Capitalist Agriculture and Class-State Formation at the Turn ofthe Century, 3 Merchants and the Integration of the State into the International Credit System, 4 The Beginnings of the Modern Dominican State, 5 State Formation and the U.S. Military Occupation, 6 Class and State Formation Under Trujillo, 7 Consolidation of the Modern State, Class Formation, and Capitalist Restructuring, 8 State and Class Formation in the Dominican Republic: Some Conclusions