Arquitectura Contemporanea en Republica Dominicana
Author : Rafael Calventi
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Page : 230 pages
File Size : 17,22 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Architecture
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Author : Rafael Calventi
Publisher :
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 17,22 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Architecture
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Page : 472 pages
File Size : 39,16 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Architecture
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La presente obra versa sobre lo que ha ocurrido en el país en lo que concierne a la arquitectura durante diferentes etapas de nuestro devenir histórico. El mismo es, más que una relación de nombres, fechas y obras, un texto de perfil académico, enriquecido con una presentación eminentemente gráfica, atendiendo a la naturaleza de su objeto de estudio.
Author : Emilio José Brea
Publisher :
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 42,96 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Architecture
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Author : Enrique Penson
Publisher :
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 38,65 MB
Release : 2006
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Author : Clara Irazábal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 26,51 MB
Release : 2008-01-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1134326238
Clara Irazábal and her contributors explore the urban history of some of Latin America’s great cities through studies of their public spaces and what has taken place there. The avenues and plazas of Mexico City, Havana, Santo Domingo, Caracas, Bogotaì, SaÞo Paulo, Lima, Santiago, and Buenos Aires have been the backdrop for extraordinary, history-making events. While some argue that public spaces are a prerequisite for the expression, representation and reinforcement of democracy, they can equally be used in the pursuit of totalitarianism. Indeed, public spaces, in both the past and present, have been the site for the contestation by ordinary people of various stances on democracy and citizenship. By exploring the use and meaning of public spaces in Latin American cities, this book sheds light on contemporary definitions of citizenship and democracy in the Americas.
Author : Holger R. Escoto
Publisher :
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 18,57 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Architecture
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Author : Lauren H. Derby
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 48,54 MB
Release : 2009-07-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0822390868
The dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo, who ruled the Dominican Republic from 1930 until his assassination in 1961, was one of the longest and bloodiest in Latin American history. The Dictator’s Seduction is a cultural history of the Trujillo regime as it was experienced in the capital city of Santo Domingo. Focusing on everyday forms of state domination, Lauren Derby describes how the regime infiltrated civil society by fashioning a “vernacular politics” based on popular idioms of masculinity and fantasies of race and class mobility. Derby argues that the most pernicious aspect of the dictatorship was how it appropriated quotidian practices such as gossip and gift exchange, leaving almost no place for Dominicans to hide or resist. Drawing on previously untapped documents in the Trujillo National Archives and interviews with Dominicans who recall life under the dictator, Derby emphasizes the role that public ritual played in Trujillo’s exercise of power. His regime included the people in affairs of state on a massive scale as never before. Derby pays particular attention to how events and projects were received by the public as she analyzes parades and rallies, the rebuilding of Santo Domingo following a major hurricane, and the staging of a year-long celebration marking the twenty-fifth year of Trujillo’s regime. She looks at representations of Trujillo, exploring how claims that he embodied the popular barrio antihero the tíguere (tiger) stoked a fantasy of upward mobility and how a rumor that he had a personal guardian angel suggested he was uniquely protected from his enemies. The Dictator’s Seduction sheds new light on the cultural contrivances of autocratic power.
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,78 MB
Release : 1949
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Author : Eric Paul Roorda
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 591 pages
File Size : 37,76 MB
Release : 2014-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0822376520
Despite its significance in the history of Spanish colonialism, the Dominican Republic is familiar to most outsiders through only a few elements of its past and culture. Non-Dominicans may be aware that the country shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti and that it is where Christopher Columbus chose to build a colony. Some may know that the country produces talented baseball players and musicians; others that it is a prime destination for beach vacations. Little else about the Dominican Republic is common knowledge outside its borders. This Reader seeks to change that. It provides an introduction to the history, politics, and culture of the country, from precolonial times into the early twenty-first century. Among the volume's 118 selections are essays, speeches, journalism, songs, poems, legal documents, testimonials, and short stories, as well as several interviews conducted especially for this Reader. Many of the selections have been translated into English for the first time. All of them are preceded by brief introductions written by the editors. The volume's eighty-five illustrations, ten of which appear in color, include maps, paintings, and photos of architecture, statues, famous figures, and Dominicans going about their everyday lives.
Author : Mark D. Anderson
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 16,60 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813931967
Annotation In the aftermath of disaster, literary and other cultural representations of the event can play a role in the renegotiation of political power. Here, the author analyses four natural disasters in Latin America that acquired national significance and symbolism through literary mediation.