Rethinking Puerto Rican Precolonial History (Caribbean Archaeology and Ethnohistory)
Rethinking Puerto Rican Precolonial History (Caribbean Archaeology and Ethnohistory)
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The history of Puerto Rico has usually been envisioned as a sequence of colonizations-various indigenous peoples from Archaic [...]
Shaping the Discourse on Space: Charity and Its Wards in 19th-Century San Juan, Puerto Rico Reviews
Shaping the Discourse on Space: Charity and Its Wards in 19th-Century San Juan, Puerto Rico
As an inchoate middle class emerged in Puerto Rico in the early nineteenth century, its members sought to control not only public space, but also the people, activities, and even attitudes that filled it. Their instruments were the San Juan town [...]
The Santurce Crabbers: Sixty Seasons of Puerto Rican Winter League Baseball
The Santurce Crabbers: Sixty Seasons of Puerto Rican Winter League Baseball
The first owner of the Santurce Crabbers, Pedrin Zorrilla, was a visionary, with many Negro League and big league contacts (he signed up Josh Gibson, Satchel Paige, Roy Campanella, Ray Dandridge and Leon Day in the first decade). Santurce was the most successful winter league [...]
Colonialism, Catholicism, and Contraception: A History of Birth Control in Puerto Rico
Colonialism, Catholicism, and Contraception: A History of Birth Control in Puerto Rico
The authors analyze the tortuous course that Puerto Rico has followed in evolving a population policy, highlighting the island’s rapic economic growth, its role as a laboratory for testing different methods of birth control, and the inevitable conflicts between church and state. The strands [...]
Caciques y aldeas, población taína de Boriquén. Puerto Rico 1492 – 1582 Reviews
Caciques y aldeas, población taína de Boriquén. Puerto Rico 1492 – 1582
Caciques, aldeas y población taína de oriquén (Puerto Rico): 1492-1582 es uno de los estudios más serios y documentados, hasta el presente, sobre el problema de la población taína de Puerto Rico. Abarca desde el descubrimiento de América por Colón en 1492 hasta la [...]
Puerto Rico & Virgin Islands Wildlife Viewing Guide (Wildlife Viewing Guides Series)
Puerto Rico & Virgin Islands Wildlife Viewing Guide (Wildlife Viewing Guides Series)
In Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, 59 brown and white signs point the way to places where you can see wildlife on the ground, in the air, and underwater. This book provides details about you’re likely to see at [...]
Puerto Rico votes in English: Interviews with writers Posts ge?
Puerto Rico votes in English: Interviews with writers
Puerto Rican writers living in the United States and in writing in English can be found astride two cultures, two languages ??and two perspectives on life. You will also find two theorems of prejudice: racial, cultural and linguistic bias in [...]
? Coral records of ocean-atmosphere variability re-t:? Report from the workshop about Coral Pal Oklima Reconstruction, November 5-8, 1992, La Parguera, Puerto Rico / by RB Dunbar, JE Cole, organizers Reviews
Coral records of ocean-atmosphere variability re-t:? report from the workshop about Coral Pal Oklima Reconstruction, November 5-8, 1992, La Parguera , Puerto Rico / by RB Dunbar, JE Cole, organizer
This book has been digitized and reprinted in the collections of the University of California Libraries. Together, over [...]
The Political Economy of Colonialism: The State and Industrialization in Puerto Rico Reviews
The Political Economy of Colonialism: The State and Industrialization in Puerto Rico
This study examines how Puerto Rico’s industrial development process has shaped and been shaped by the state, relations with Washington, and Puerto Rican society, especially in light of the economic crises of the 1970s and 1980s. Sherrie Baver posits that Puerto Rico’s extreme integration [...]