Authors: Olga Jimenez De Wagenheim, Jimenez De Olga
ISBN-13: 9781558761223, ISBN-10: 1558761225
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Wiener, Markus Publishers, Incorporated
Date Published: August 1997
Edition: 1st Edition
Since many of the documents and books about Puerto Rico were written by the colonizers, only the victors were celebrated. With this in mind, the author has expressly composed this book from the viewpoint of the colonized, suppressed, and exploited. She challenges a previously-held notion that the Tainos simply gave up at the first sight of the Spaniards, and shows that they not only fought the intruders, but continued to resist them for more than sixty years after the battle of Yaguecas. The author discusses the fate and contributions of Africans who, as slaves or as free persons, became instrumental in Puerto Rico's social and economic development and shows how this multi-cultural Caribbean island brings together the global traditions of the Americas, Africa, and Europe.
Preface | ||
Acknowledgements | ||
Ch. 1 | The Land and the Amerindians | 1 |
Ch. 2 | The Newcomers to Boriquen | 19 |
Ch. 3 | "Discovery", Conquest and Colonization | 35 |
Ch. 4 | Foreign Attacks and Imperial Neglect, 1570s-1699 | 59 |
Ch. 5 | The Colony is Reformed, 1700-1799 | 77 |
Ch. 6 | Creoles Seek Political and Economic Power, 1800-1830s | 105 |
Ch. 7 | Sugar, Slavery and Absolute Rule, 1830-1867 | 137 |
Ch. 8 | From the Lares Uprising to Autonomy, 1868-1900 | 163 |
Ch. 9 | Invasion and Occupation by the United States, 1898-1900 | 195 |
Ch. 10 | Portrait of the Society | 227 |
Notes | 263 | |
Index | 287 |