海地与多米尼加同踞于伊斯帕尼奥拉岛,有关这两个国家的比较历史研究见Michele Wecker用英文写就的Why the Cocks Fight:Dominicans, Haitians, and the Struggle for Hispaniola(New York:Hill and Wang, 1999),文笔生动。Rafael Emilio Yunén用西班牙文写就的La Isla Como Es(Santiago, República Dominicana:Universidad Católica Madrey Maestra, 1985)侧重的是地理与社会的比较研究。
Mats Lundahl写的三本关于海地的书是很好的入门读物:Peasants and Poverty:A study of Haiti(London:Croom Helm, 1979);The Haitian Economy:Man, Land, and Markets(London:Croom Helm, 1983);以及Politics or Markets?Essays on Haitian Underdevelopment(London:Routledge, 1992)。C.L.R.James写的The Black Jacobins, 2nd ed.(London:Vintage, 1963)是一本关于海地1781—1803年革命的经典著作。
Frank Moya Pons的The Dominican Republic:A National History(Princeton, N.J.:Markus Wiener,1998)是一本英文写的多米尼加共和国历史书。该作者还用西班牙文写过Manual de Historia Dominicana, 9th ed.(Santiago, República Dominicana, 1999)。相关的西班牙语书籍还有Roberto Cassá写的Historia Socialy Económica de la República Dominicana(Santo Domingo:Editora Alfay Omega, 1998 and 2001)。Marlin Clausner写的历史书籍则着重于多米尼加农村地区:Rural Santo Domingo:Settled, Unsettled, Resettled(Philadelphia:Temple University Press, 1973)。Harry Hoetink写的The Dominican People, 1850-1900:Notes for a Historical Sociology(Baltimore:Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982)关注的视角是19世纪晚期的多米尼加。Claudio Vedovato在Politics, Foreign Trade and Economic Development:A Study of the Dominican Republic(London:Croom Helm, 1986)一书中探讨了楚吉洛和后楚吉洛时代。还有两本论及楚吉洛时代的书籍也值得关注:Howard Wiarda的Dictatorship and Development:The Methods of Control in Trujillo's Dominican Republic(Gainesville, University of Florida Press, 1968)以及Richard Lee Turits最近出版的Foundations of Despotism:Peasants, the Trujillo Regime, and Modernity in Dominican History(Palo Alto, Calif.:Stanford University Press, 2002)。
Walter Cordero在“Introducción:bibliografía sobre medio ambientey recursos naturals en la República Dominicana”(2003)一文中详述了多米尼加共和国环境政策的历史,与本章极其契合。