Puerto Rico, 2006:

Puerto Rico, 2006:
Title Puerto Rico, 2006: PDF eBook
Author Mary Hilaire Tavenner
Publisher Xlibris Corporation
Pages 256
Release 2010-12-15
Genre History
ISBN 1456810049

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“This book is a detailed, well-researched history of how a community of Puerto Ricans came to be in the heart if America. Puerto Rico owes a debt of gratitude to the author and should declare Dr. Tavenner an “honorary Boricua” for the extraordinary effort she has put into documenting the factual history and the fascinating life story of her Puerto Rican neighbor in Lorain, Ohio” ---Secretary of State and Lt. Governor of Puerto Rico, Kenneth McClintock “These Memoirs are reflective of an educational journey in search of ways to better understand and serve individuals, communities, and institutions as a servant leader, unconditionally.”] ---Dr. Generosa Lopez-Molina, Educational Leadership

The Economy of Puerto Rico

The Economy of Puerto Rico
Title The Economy of Puerto Rico PDF eBook
Author Barry Bosworth
Publisher Brookings Institution Press
Pages 607
Release 2006
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 9780815715535

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In this innovative new book, economists from U.S. and Puerto Rican institutions address a range of major policy issues affecting the islands economic development. To frame the current situation, the contributors begin by assessing Puerto Ricos past experience with various growth policies.

Sugar, Slavery, and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico

Sugar, Slavery, and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico
Title Sugar, Slavery, and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico PDF eBook
Author Luis A. Figueroa
Publisher Univ of North Carolina Press
Pages 301
Release 2006-05-18
Genre History
ISBN 0807876836

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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.

Almost a Woman

Almost a Woman
Title Almost a Woman PDF eBook
Author Esmeralda Santiago
Publisher Da Capo Press
Pages 433
Release 2012-06-12
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0306821117

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Following the enchanting story recounted in When I Was Puerto Rican of the author’s emergence from the barrios of Brooklyn to the prestigious Performing Arts High School in Manhattan, Esmeralda Santiago delivers the tale of her young adulthood, where she continually strives to find a balance between becoming American and staying Puerto Rican. While translating for her mother Mami at the welfare office in the morning, starring as Cleopatra at New York’s prestigious Performing Arts High School in the afternoons, and dancing salsa all night, she begins to defy her mother’s protective rules, only to find that independence brings new dangers and dilemmas.

Puerto Rico: a Quick Overview of the Island and its People

Puerto Rico: a Quick Overview of the Island and its People
Title Puerto Rico: a Quick Overview of the Island and its People PDF eBook
Author
Publisher PediaPress
Pages 549
Release
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History of Puerto Rico

History of Puerto Rico
Title History of Puerto Rico PDF eBook
Author Fernando Pico
Publisher
Pages 380
Release 2014-06-09
Genre History
ISBN 9781558765993

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Luis Muñoz Marín

Luis Muñoz Marín
Title Luis Muñoz Marín PDF eBook
Author A. W. Maldonado
Publisher La Editorial, UPR
Pages 472
Release 2006
Genre History
ISBN 9780847701582

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The book describes the most important events in Muñoz's life, played out within his own internal "civil wars": the transformation from a young bohemian, succeding at nothing, to a political leader, spearheading the campaign to convince the jibaros not to sell their vote; the journey from an ardent independentista to a principal architect of today's Commonwealth; finally, the clash between Operation Bootstrap, that lifted the island from extreme poverty through industrialization, and Operation Serenity, an expression of his yearning for socialist values and humanitarian civilization."--Jacket.