Quisqueya La Bella: The Dominican Republic in Historical and Cultural Perspective (Perspectives on Latin America and the Caribbean) [Paperback]

Alan Cambeira (Author), Alan Camberia (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 286 pages
• Publisher: M.E. Sharpe; 1 edition (January 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1563249367
• ISBN-13: 978-1563249365
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #816,579 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #46 in Books > History > Americas > Caribbean & West Indies > Dominican Republic

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237 of 237 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Quisqueya La Bella- Excellent Interpretation, August 26, 2003

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This review is from: Quisqueya La Bella: The Dominican Republic in Historical and Cultural Perspective (Perspectives on Latin America and the Caribbean) (Paperback)

More than a history text, Quisqueya La Bella helps you interpret the cultural and ethnic aspects that shaped the Dominican Republic. Read about one of the largest immigrant groups to the U.S.; read how the town of San Pedro de Macoris is home to more major league baseball players than any city in the world; read how the Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo brutually kept his iron-fisted grip on the island for over 31 years; read about the complex and often disturbing relationship with neighboring Haiti and how the Dominican Republic gave birth to the world-famous Merengue. Follow the rise and fall of slavery, sugar, and revolution. This English language book paints the "essential kaleidoscopic ingredients" of a fascinating people.

"Excellent Book" Very Highly Recommended

230 of 230 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars QUISQUEYA LA BELLA--*A SOLID CONTRIBUTION*, September 18, 2002

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This review is from: Quisqueya La Bella: The Dominican Republic in Historical and Cultural Perspective (Perspectives on Latin America and the Caribbean) (Paperback)

Quisqueya la Bella is a solid contribution to the understanding of the Dominican Republic today. It helps to close the existing gap concerning in-depth analysis in English of both the Dominican people and the socioeconomic problems that currently afflict Dominican society. Both deserve a wide audience...The author's text is generally passionate and committed...Cambeira sets out the shed light on the understanding of the Dominican mind.
New West Indian Guide Vol. 73 no. 1&2

233 of 234 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "BUILDING COMPASIONATE BRIDGES & ERASING FEAR", November 16, 2001

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This review is from: Quisqueya La Bella: The Dominican Republic in Historical and Cultural Perspective (Perspectives on Latin America and the Caribbean) (Paperback)

The sad coincidence of the tragic fate of American Airlines flight 587 and at the same time finishing Alan Cambeira's fascinating book about the evolution of Dominican Culture is uncanny. Like any fascinating work, "Quisqueya La Bella" has opened my heart and mind in truly eradicating my irrational fear and shameful ignorance about a beautiful community of people that knows true suffering at every turn.
Flight 587 and this excellently crafted book should leave all of us with a new found, genuine compassion to seek the truth.
This book and the people of the Dominican Republic really touched me deeply. This is the best of its kind that I've ever read in my life..I give 5 stars...Will become the seminal work.