We Dream Together: Dominican Independence, Haiti, and the Fight for Caribbean Freedom

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Book Review| August 01 2018 We Dream Together: Dominican Independence, Haiti, and the Fight for Caribbean Freedom We Dream Together: Dominican Independence, Haiti, and the Fight for Caribbean Freedom. By Eller, Anne. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016. Photographs. Maps. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xviii, 381 pp. Paper, $27.95. Eric Paul Roorda Eric Paul Roorda Bellarmine University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Hispanic American Historical Review (2018) 98 (3): 524–526. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-6933721 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Email Permissions Search Site Citation Eric Paul Roorda; We Dream Together: Dominican Independence, Haiti, and the Fight for Caribbean Freedom. Hispanic American Historical Review 1 August 2018; 98 (3): 524–526. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-6933721 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter Books & JournalsAll JournalsHispanic American Historical Review Search Advanced Search In the funny, profound, and overlooked 1996 documentary Le sort de l'Amérique (The fate of America), an exploration of what it means to be Canadian, Quebecois filmmaker Jacques Godbout asserts that “history is the imaginary dimension of a people.” In We Dream Together, a sweeping revision of the intertwined histories of the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and their neighbors in the Caribbean region, Anne Eller of Yale University provides powerful and provocative evidence for Godbout's statement. According to Eller's exhaustively researched and eloquently argued account, the meaning of Dominican nationality today is the product of an imagined past.In Eller's treatment of the events in Hispaniola between 1822 and 1865, her central goal is to dismantle systematically the spurious dichotomy between Haiti and the Dominican Republic, one that serves to maintain and often to intensify the two republics' recurring conflicts. The implicit... Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press2018 Issue Section: Eighteenth–Nineteenth Centuries You do not currently have access to this content.