MartAAA12nezVergne examines the development of a sense of nationhood in theDominican Republic with particular focus on the cities of Santo Domingo thecapital an... » 

MartAAA12nezVergne examines the development of a sense of nationhood in theDominican Republic with particular focus on the cities of Santo Domingo thecapital and San Pedro de Macors a booming sugar town in the late 19th andearly 20th centuries. She argues that the Dominican intelligentsia impressed onthe rest of society a discourse based on modern agricultural techniquessecular education private property and an open political process but blackimmigrants from the West Indies bourgeois women and working class men andwomen developed their ownsuprisingly modernnotions of citizenship in theirdaily interactions with city officials. «