Puerto Rico, a political and cultural history / Arturo Morales Carrion ; chapters by Maria Teresa Babin [and others]

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Main Author: Morales Carrion, Arturo
Corporate Author: American Association for State and Local History
Other Authors: Babin, Maria Teresa, 1910-1989
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Nashville : W.W. Norton ; American Association for State and Local History, ℗♭1983.
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Table of Contents:
  • Invitation to the reader
  • Introduction
  • Part One: The emergence of a people
  • An island is settled / Arturo Morales Carrion
  • 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 Gonzalez Vales
  • Puerto Rico in a revolutionary world / Arturo Santana
  • Towards a plantation society (1860-1866) / Luis Gonzalez Vales
  • The challenge to colonialism (1866-1897) / Luis Gonzalez Vales
  • Part Two: The struggle for identity / Arturo Morales Carrion
  • 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 / Maria Teresa Babin
  • A special voice: the cultural expression.