| Description |
xiii, 384 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Invitation to the reader -- Introduction -- Part One.The emergence of a people -- An island is settled / Arturo Morales Carrión -- The outpost of empire / Aida R. Caro Costas -- The organization of an institutional and social life / Aida R. Caro Costas -- The eighteenth-century society / Luis González Vales -- Puerto Rico in a revolutionary world / Arturo Santana -- Towards a plantation society (1860-1866) / Luis González Vales -- The challenge to colonialism (1866-1897) / Luis González Vales -- Part Two.The struggle for identity / Arturo Morales Carrión -- 1898 : the hope and trauma -- The rise of colonial tutelage -- The Wilsonian era in Puerto Rico -- The aftermath of the Jones Act -- The plight of the 1930s -- The forging of consensus -- The PPD democratic hegemony (1944-1969) -- The postscriptum : the end of consensus -- Part Three. Epilogue / María Teresa Babín -- A special voice : the cultural expression. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Subject |
Puerto Rico -- History.
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Puerto Rico -- Civilization.
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| Added Author |
Morales Carrión, Arturo.
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Babín, María Teresa, 1910-1989.
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American Association for State and Local History.
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| ISBN |
0393017400 |
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