Eric Paul Roorda is Professor of History at Bellarmine University in Louisville, Kentucky, and Co-director of the Munson Institute of American Maritime Studies at Mystic Seaport, Connecticut. He was a Fulbright Scholar in the Dominican Republic, and is a member of the Dominican Academy of History.

• Editor’s Foreward Jon WoronoffPrefaceReader’s NotesAcronyms and AbbreviationsMapChronologyIntroductionTHE DICTIONARYAppendixesHeads of StateProvincesBibliographyAbout the Author

[This book] contains over 500 entries on people, events, political entities, climatological and geographical features, and other factors that have shaped the history of the Dominican Republic. In addition, the book has an extensive and illuminating chronology, ranging from 4,000 B.C.E., by which time the first people had arrived on the island, to June 2015, when issues concerning undocumented Haitian immigrants living in the republic took center stage. . . .The volume contains a map, a list of acronyms and abbreviations, and a thoughtful bibliography of English and Spanish-language works covering the republic’s history, politics, economy, culture, environment, and society. Relevant reference works and Internet sources are also listed. The book will be of use to secondary school and college students as well as the general reader with an interest in our neighbors.

Eric Paul Roorda is Professor of History at Bellarmine University in Louisville, Kentucky, and Co-director of the Munson Institute of American Maritime Studies at Mystic Seaport, Connecticut. He was a Fulbright Scholar in the Dominican Republic, and is a member of the Dominican Academy of History.

• Editor’s Foreward Jon WoronoffPrefaceReader’s NotesAcronyms and AbbreviationsMapChronologyIntroductionTHE DICTIONARYAppendixesHeads of StateProvincesBibliographyAbout the Author

[This book] contains over 500 entries on people, events, political entities, climatological and geographical features, and other factors that have shaped the history of the Dominican Republic. In addition, the book has an extensive and illuminating chronology, ranging from 4,000 B.C.E., by which time the first people had arrived on the island, to June 2015, when issues concerning undocumented Haitian immigrants living in the republic took center stage. . . .The volume contains a map, a list of acronyms and abbreviations, and a thoughtful bibliography of English and Spanish-language works covering the republic’s history, politics, economy, culture, environment, and society. Relevant reference works and Internet sources are also listed. The book will be of use to secondary school and college students as well as the general reader with an interest in our neighbors.

Eric Paul Roorda is Professor of History at Bellarmine University in Louisville, Kentucky, and Co-director of the Munson Institute of American Maritime Studies at Mystic Seaport, Connecticut. He was a Fulbright Scholar in the Dominican Republic, and is a member of the Dominican Academy of History.

• Editor’s Foreward Jon WoronoffPrefaceReader’s NotesAcronyms and AbbreviationsMapChronologyIntroductionTHE DICTIONARYAppendixesHeads of StateProvincesBibliographyAbout the Author

[This book] contains over 500 entries on people, events, political entities, climatological and geographical features, and other factors that have shaped the history of the Dominican Republic. In addition, the book has an extensive and illuminating chronology, ranging from 4,000 B.C.E., by which time the first people had arrived on the island, to June 2015, when issues concerning undocumented Haitian immigrants living in the republic took center stage. . . .The volume contains a map, a list of acronyms and abbreviations, and a thoughtful bibliography of English and Spanish-language works covering the republic’s history, politics, economy, culture, environment, and society. Relevant reference works and Internet sources are also listed. The book will be of use to secondary school and college students as well as the general reader with an interest in our neighbors.