History of Puerto Rico: A Panorama of Its People
One of Puerto Rico's leading historians, Fernando Pico has had tremendous influence over our currect understanding of Puerto Rican society. Here, he examines the ways in which developments in the courts and commercial centers of the Americas, Europe, and Africa have affected the common people, who have tried since the nineteenth century to take control of their political, social and economic lives. Pico expands his book, "Historia General," for this first updated American edition to include...
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One of Puerto Rico's leading historians, Fernando Pico has had tremendous influence over our currect understanding of Puerto Rican society. Here, he examines the ways in which developments in the courts and commercial centers of the Americas, Europe, and Africa have affected the common people, who have tried since the nineteenth century to take control of their political, social and economic lives. Pico expands his book, "Historia General," for this first updated American edition to include movements and events as recent as the fight for Vieques. Annales An intelligent and up-to-date work.
Weights and MeasuresMap 1: The Caribbean in the 16th CenturyPreface to the Edition in EnglishChapter 1: The Formation of the Puerto Rican LandChapter 2: Amerindian SocietiesChapter 3: Backgrounds of the New Settlers of Puerto RicoMap 2: Africa in the 15th Century: main ecological zones and important cities of the westMap 3: Europe during the Spanish conquest of AmericaChapter 4: The Conquest of BoriquenChapter 5: Agriculture and Cattle Raising in the 16th and 17th CenturiesChapter 6: Puerto Rico in the Struggle for Commercial Hegemony in the 16th and17th Centuries CaribbeanChapter 7: Corsairs and Torch and Machete Farmers (1700-1765)Chapter 8: Political VicissitudesChapter 9: Faces New and Old: The Population (1765-1823)Chapter 10: The Transition to Monocultures (1765-1823)Chapter 11: A Slaveholding Society (1824-1868)Chapter 12: In the Hour of the Mountain (1868-1898)Chapter 13: Puerto Rico Becomes a Vast Sugarcane FieldChapter 14: The New Industrial and Urban Order (1940-1980)Chapter 15: Changes in Perceptions and Values (From the 1960s to 2005)Bibliography
\ AnnalesAn intelligent and up-to-date work.\ \ \ \ \ Choice MagazineOutstanding Academic Book of the Year 2006.\ \ \ Hispanic American Historical ReviewSuperbly synthesized.\ \
