Wells / Joseph / Rosenberg Tropical Zion

General Trujillo, FDR, and the Jews of Sosúa
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9205-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 480 Seiten

Reihe: American encounters/global interactions

A history of Sosúa, a Dominican Republic settlement founded as a refuge for Jews fleeing Nazi Europe, and an analysis of the geopolitics underlying the settlements formation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wells, Allen

Joseph, Gilbert M.

Rosenberg, Emily S.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte des Judentums (Diaspora)
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Abbreviations ix

Prologue xi

Part One: The Refugees' Plight

1. "Our Ethnic Problem" 3

2. Think Big 28

3. Jewish Farmers 44

Part Two: Converging Interests

4. "The Eyes of the World Are on the Dominican Republic" 69

5. One Good Turn 91

6. Lives in the Balance 105

7. Playing God 127

Part Three: Growing Pains

8. First Impressions 151

9. Flawed Vision 176

10. Containment 198

11. Trial and Error 219

Part Four: Middle Age

12. The Man Who Saved Souls 243

13. A "Splendid President" 266

14. Golden Years 281

15. "The Beginning of the End" 299

16. Ravages of Aging 314

Epilogue 339

Acknowledgments 355

Notes 359

Bibliography 409

Index 437

Über Autor(innen)

Allen Wells is the Roger Howell Jr. Professor of History at Bowdoin College. He is the author of Yucatán’s Gilded Age: Haciendas, Henequen, and International Harvester, 1860–1915; a co-author of Summer of Discontent, Seasons of Upheaval: Elite Politics and Rural Rebellion in Yucatán, 1876–1915; and a co-editor of The Second Conquest of Latin America: Coffee, Henequen, and Oil during the Export Boom, 1850–1930.