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Richard Lee Furits Foundations of Despotism: Peasants, the Trujillo Regime, and Modernity in Dominican History.(Book review)
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Richard Lee Furits Foundations of Despotism: Peasants, the Trujillo Regime, and Modernity in Dominican History Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003, x + 384 pp.
The list of books about the Dominican Republic's Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, including both scholarly publications and novels, keeps growing. What, one should enquire, is this fascination with tyranny? Why does Mario Vargas Llosa choose to write a major novel (The Feast of the Goat, soon to be a film) about Trujillo rather than, for instance, Puerto Rico's democratically elected Luis Munoz Marin, every ...
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ROBERT TREAT PAINE STORER JR., 83, FUND-RAISER
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; In 1985, Robert Treat Paine Storer Jr. cofounded the Friends of...2002, the infirmary established the Robert T. P. Storer Jr. Rehabilitation Fund...a descendant of patriot Robert Treat Paine, one of the signers of the Declaration...
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Taunton's patriots & tories: the patriotic struggle in one southeastern Massachusetts community led to honor for patriot Robert Treat Paine and obscurity for Tory Daniel Leonard. (History -- Struggle for Freedom).
Magazine article from: The New American
; ...incident to his brother-in-law Robert Treat Paine, who had just returned from the...the war was in fact already on. Paine had reputedly toasted at a dinner...illuminate the latest posterity." Paine knew war was coming, as did Samuel...
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Historic past pays for Paine House Public, private trust support landmark
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...fund-raiser." Also called the Robert Treat Paine House, this 19th-century country...his death in 1961. Then, says Robert Treat Paine Storer, president of the Paine...property, the descendants formed the Robert Treat Paine Historic Trust so...
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Elizabeth Paine, 64, of Weston, attorney.(Obituary)
Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald
; Elizabeth Paine of Weston, a lawyer, died Sunday at Massachusetts General Hospital of cancer. She was 64. Born in Cambridge, Ms. Paine was a descendant of Robert Treat Paine, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence...
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AS YOU WERE SAYING ...; Granary reminds us to honor Hancock, Adams and Paine.
Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald
; ...in the Granary: John Hancock, Samuel Adams and Robert Treat Paine. Skilled politicians trained in the school of town...The last of the trio is the least well known, Robert Treat Paine. Originally from Taunton and trained as a minister...
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Visit dead for a Halloween treat.(Travel)
Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald
; ...original granary. Paul Revere is buried here, as are three signers of the Declaration of Independence: John Hancock, Robert Treat Paine and Samuel Adams. Seek out the grave of Elizabeth Vergoose, the famous storyteller Mother Goose, who was laid...
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PETERIFIED FOREST NATIONAL PARK EXPANSION ACT AND RESOURCES:ROBERT G. NUNES BILL
Transcript from: Congressional Testimony
; ...leading role in creating a new nation. A statue of Robert Treat Paine symbolically faces away from the Church Green National...center of the city moved towards the Taunton Green. Robert Treat Paine, a Taunton resident, was as a signer of the Declaration...
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WALTHAM HISTORIC DAYS
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...will be held at 10 a.m. at the Storer Estate, Robert Treat Paine Drive. Rain date is June 16. 617-964-8536...781-891-8717. Open house at Stonehurst, the Robert Treat Paine Estate 1-3 p.m. June 11 at 100 Robert Treat...
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A FOUNDATION FOR SAVING STONEHURST WALTHAM MANSE IS IN DIRE NEED OF RESTORATION
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...WALTHAM - Stonehurst, as named by the Robert Treat Paine family in 1866, is an imposing...decorated multiroom house and into Paine's legacy of philanthropic efforts...open space and affordable housing. Paine, whose great-grandfather of the...
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Trinity Church, Boston.(Books about Antiques.)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques
; ...earthbound than a Gothic spire. The money man was Robert Treat Paine, the namesake of his great grandfather...Henry Holiday in England at the behest of Paine and Brooks. The first of these honors Paine the Signer as well as a deceased child in...
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