Author: Olga J. De Wagenheim
Publisher:
Published: 1990-03-01
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780943862507
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Olga Jiménez Wgenheim
Publisher:
Published: 2019-05-29
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781558766440
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book interprets Puerto Rico's first and most significant attempt to end its colonial dependence on Spain. Looking at the imperial policies and conditions within Puerto Rico that led to the 1868 rebellion known as El Grito de Lares, the author compares the colonization of Puerto Rico with that of Spanish America and explores why the island's independence movement began decades after Spain's other colonies of the region had revolted. Through the extensive use of previously unresearched archival materials of the rebel movement, she corrects many errors found in earlier accounts of the revolt, and offers new interpretations of the movement's impact on Spanish-Puerto Rican relations.
Author: Luis A. Figueroa
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2006-05-18
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780807876831
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The contributions of the black population to the history and economic development of Puerto Rico have long been distorted and underplayed, Luis A. Figueroa contends. Focusing on the southeastern coastal region of Guayama, one of Puerto Rico's three leading centers of sugarcane agriculture, Figueroa examines the transition from slavery and slave labor to freedom and free labor after the 1873 abolition of slavery in colonial Puerto Rico. He corrects misconceptions about how ex-slaves went about building their lives and livelihoods after emancipation and debunks standing myths about race relations in Puerto Rico. Historians have assumed that after emancipation in Puerto Rico, as in other parts of the Caribbean and the U.S. South, former slaves acquired some land of their own and became subsistence farmers. Figueroa finds that in Puerto Rico, however, this was not an option because both capital and land available for sale to the Afro-Puerto Rican population were scarce. Paying particular attention to class, gender, and race, his account of how these libertos joined the labor market profoundly revises our understanding of the emancipation process and the evolution of the working class in Puerto Rico.
Author: Berch Berberoglu
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9781439901090
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume examines the volatile nature and complex dynamics of national movements and ethnic conflict around the world.
Author: OLGA. JIMENEZ DE WAGENHEIM
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-06-30
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780367284862
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is a socioeconomic interpretation of Puerto Rico's first and most significant attempt to end its colonial relationship with Spain. Looking at the imperial policies and conditions within Puerto Rico that led to the 1868 rebellion known as "El Grito de Lares," Dr. Jiménez de Wagenheim compares the colonization of Puerto Rico with that of Spanish America and explores the reasons why the island's independence movement began decades after Spain's other colonies in the region had revolted. Through the extensive use of previously unresearched archive material, she examines the economic and social backgrounds of the leaders of the rebel movement, corrects many errors of earlier accounts of the revolt, and offers new interpretations of its impact on Spanish-Puerto Rican relations.
Author: Harry Franqui-Rivera
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2021-01-01
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 1496222342
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →As the island of Puerto Rico transitioned from Spanish to U.S. imperial rule, the military and political mobilization of popular sectors of its society played important roles in the evolution of its national identities and subsequent political choices. While scholars of American imperialism have examined the political, economic, and cultural aspects of U.S. colonialism in Puerto Rico, few have considered the integral role of Puerto Rican men in colonial military service, helping to consolidate the empire. In Soldiers of the Nation Harry Franqui-Rivera argues that the emergence of strong and complicated Puerto Rican national identities is deeply rooted in the long history of colonial military organizations on the island. Franqui-Rivera examines the patterns of inclusion and exclusion within the military and the various forms of citizenship that are subsequently transformed into socioeconomic and political enfranchisement. Analyzing the armed forces as an agent of cultural homogenization, Franqui-Rivera further explains the formation and evolution of Puerto Rican national identities that led to the creation of the Estado Libre Asociado (the commonwealth) in 1952. Franqui-Rivera concludes that Puerto Rican soldiers were neither cannon fodder for the metropolis nor the pawns of the criollo political elites. Rather, they were men with complex identities who demonstrated a liberal, popular, and broad definition of Puertorriqueñidad.
Author: Antonio Fernós
Publisher: La Editorial, UPR
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780847701421
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This work studies and analyzes the historical and political development of Puerto Rico and considers the debate regarding cultural definition and the right to sovereignty.