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Offers a historical examination of church-state relations and case study of the Dominican Republic, which leads into important regional comparisons that broaden our understanding of the Catholic Church in the whole of Latin America.

This book represents a milestone in Dominican studies, offering an analysis of the formation of the Dominican state and exploring the development of state-society relations since the late nineteenth century.

An analysis of the formation of the Dominican state, and an exploration of the development of state-society relations since the late-19th century. The author argues that the groundwork for the establishment of a modern state was laid during the regimes of Ulises Heureaux and Ramon Caceres.