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Columbus in 1492 discovered the island of Santo Domingo which he called La Española, and the city of Santo Domingo, founded by his brother, Bartholomew, in 1496, was for long the centre of Spanish power in America The country declared its independence of Spain in 1821, was invaded and held by the Haitians from 1822 to 1844 when the Dominican Republic was founded and a Constitution adopted. The country was occupied by American marines from 1916 to the adoption of a new constitution in 1924.
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Statistical and other Books of Reference concerning the Dominican Republic
The Constitution of the Dominican Republic of 1908. San Domingo, 1918.
Santo Domingo, its Past and its Present Condition. [U.S. Navy Department.] Santo Domingo City, 1920.
Informe sobre la situación económica y financiera de la República Dominicana. I el modo de solucionar sus problemas, presentado por el Licdo. Francisco J. Peynado, a la comisión especial del senado de los EΕ. UU. para investigar los asuntos de la República Dominicana. Santo Domingo, 1922.
Report of the Overseas Trade Department. London. Annual.
García (José Gabriel), Compendio de la historia de Santo Domingo. Revised ed. 3 vols Santo Domingo, 1896. [Brings the history down to July, 1865.]
Knight (M. M.), The Americans in Santo Domingo. (A critical account of the American occupation.) New York, 1928.
Logroño (Α.), Compendio Didáctico de Historia Patria. Vol. I. Santo Domingo. 1912. [Up to 1844.]
Mareau de Saini-Méry (M. L. E.), Description Topographique, Physique, Civile. Politique et Historique de la Partié Espagnole de l’Ile de Saint Dominique. Philadelphia, 1799. [Probably the standard work on Spanish Santo Domingo.]
Monte y Tejada (Antonio), Historia de Santo Domingo. Completed ed., bringing the history down to 1821. 4 vols. Santo Domingo, 1890.
Nouel (Carlos A ), Historia Eclesiástica de la Arquidiócesis de Santo Domingo, First City of America. 2 vols. Rome, 1913.
Rodriguez (Α.), La Cuestion Dominico-Haitiana : Estudio Geografico-Historico. 2nd Ed. San Domingo, 1919.
Schönrich (Otto), Santo Domingo : The Country with a Future. New York, 1919.
Stoddart (T. L.), The French Revolution in San Domingo. New York, 1915
Welles (Sumner), Naboth’s Vineyard. (History of events culminating in re-establishment of Constitutional Government, by former U.S. Commissioner to the Republic.) 2 vols. New York, 1928.
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Epstein, M. (1932). Dominican Republic. In: Epstein, M. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230270619_25
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