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We Dream Together: Dominican Independence, Haiti, and the Fight for Caribbean Freedom
Anne Eller
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Description for We Dream Together: Dominican Independence, Haiti, and the Fight for Caribbean Freedom
Paperback. In this thorough social and political history Anne Eller breaks with dominant narratives of the history of the Dominican Republic and its relationship with Haiti by tracing the complicated history of its independence between 1822 and 1865, showing how the Dominican Republic's political roots are deeply entwined with Haiti's. Num Pages: 400 pages, 11 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJD; 1KJH; 3JH; 3JJC; HBJK; HBTQ; HBTR; JPW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 545.
In We Dream Together Anne Eller breaks with dominant narratives of conflict between the Dominican Republic and Haiti by tracing the complicated history of Dominican emancipation and independence between 1822 and 1865. Eller moves beyond the small body of writing by Dominican elites that often narrates Dominican nationhood to craft inclusive, popular histories of identity, community, and freedom, summoning sources that range from trial records and consul reports to poetry and song. Rethinking Dominican relationships with their communities, the national project, and the greater Caribbean, Eller shows how popular anticolonial resistance was anchored in a rich and complex political culture. Haitians and Dominicans fostered a common commitment to Caribbean freedom, the abolition of slavery, and popular democracy, often well beyond the reach of the state. By showing how the island's political roots are deeply entwined, and by contextualizing this history within the wider Atlantic world, Eller demonstrates the centrality of Dominican anticolonial struggles for understanding independence and emancipation throughout the Caribbean and the Americas.
Product Details
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822362371
SKU
V9780822362371
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About Anne Eller
Anne Eller is Assistant Professor of History at Yale University.
Reviews for We Dream Together: Dominican Independence, Haiti, and the Fight for Caribbean Freedom
Successful in dealing with the challenge of keeping all the various protagonists, political forces and international events in play along with foregrounding the everyday lives of inhabitants. . . . A welcome addition to an important new direction in the nineteenth-century Caribbean history. . . . She proves that a full understanding of the past is not possible without unearthing the sometimes surprising network of connections that underpin historical events.
J. Michael Dash
Slavery & Abolition
A thorough, panoptic study of the sociopolitical dynamics at work in the Dominican Republic . . . . The strength of the scholarship is astounding.
Sophie Marinez
H-Haiti, H-Net Reviews
Exhaustively researched and eloquently argued. We Dream Together is an important work for everyone interested in Haiti and the Dominican Republic to absorb and to ponder.
Eric Paul Roorda
Hispanic American Historical Review
With We Dream Together, Anne Eller has produced not only an invaluable contribution to the academic field of history, but also a forceful manifesto.
Milagros Ricourt
American Historical Review
For those of us descended from the island that is now Haiti and the Dominican Republic, We Dream Together offers historical lessons that should encourage a reconfiguration of identity that centers the social, economic, and political relationships forged between oppressed communities on both sides of the island's internal border.
Sandy Placido
Black Perspectives
Eller's book is an important addition to the historiography on anti-colonial struggles. Her globalized perspective is insightful as it offers the reader a fresh way of looking at events in Hispaniola within the context of global competition for interests in the Caribbean.
Bekeh Utietiang
Journal of Global South Studies
Anne Eller's pathbreaking study provides the first social history of the Restoration War, moving purposefully away from elite accounts to explore what the Haitian and Domimnican people on the ground were thinking and feeling.
Gavin O'Toole
Latin American Review of Books
In doing away with simplistic, jingoistic evaluations of relationships between and among Caribbean actors, Eller allows readers to better appreciate the relationship of the eventual Dominican overthrow of the Spanish annexation to Puerto Rican and Cuban struggles for independence from Spain. Highly recommended.
W. J. Nelson
Choice
J. Michael Dash
Slavery & Abolition
A thorough, panoptic study of the sociopolitical dynamics at work in the Dominican Republic . . . . The strength of the scholarship is astounding.
Sophie Marinez
H-Haiti, H-Net Reviews
Exhaustively researched and eloquently argued. We Dream Together is an important work for everyone interested in Haiti and the Dominican Republic to absorb and to ponder.
Eric Paul Roorda
Hispanic American Historical Review
With We Dream Together, Anne Eller has produced not only an invaluable contribution to the academic field of history, but also a forceful manifesto.
Milagros Ricourt
American Historical Review
For those of us descended from the island that is now Haiti and the Dominican Republic, We Dream Together offers historical lessons that should encourage a reconfiguration of identity that centers the social, economic, and political relationships forged between oppressed communities on both sides of the island's internal border.
Sandy Placido
Black Perspectives
Eller's book is an important addition to the historiography on anti-colonial struggles. Her globalized perspective is insightful as it offers the reader a fresh way of looking at events in Hispaniola within the context of global competition for interests in the Caribbean.
Bekeh Utietiang
Journal of Global South Studies
Anne Eller's pathbreaking study provides the first social history of the Restoration War, moving purposefully away from elite accounts to explore what the Haitian and Domimnican people on the ground were thinking and feeling.
Gavin O'Toole
Latin American Review of Books
In doing away with simplistic, jingoistic evaluations of relationships between and among Caribbean actors, Eller allows readers to better appreciate the relationship of the eventual Dominican overthrow of the Spanish annexation to Puerto Rican and Cuban struggles for independence from Spain. Highly recommended.
W. J. Nelson
Choice