Distant Neighbors in the Caribbean: The Dominican Republic and Jamaica in Comparative Perspective

by Richard S. Hillman and Thomas J. D'Agostino

This study in comparative politics provides a comparison and contrast in the political development of two countries with divergent historical influences--the Dominican Republic and Jamaica. Although situated in close geographical proximity to each other and to the United States, Jamaica and the Dominican Republic are island nations generally considered separately in the fields of Latin American and Commonwealth Caribbean politics. The mutually...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275939278
• ISBN13: 9780275939274
• Release Date: May 1992
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"