<p>Because many of the documents and books about Puerto Rico have been written by the island's 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 Taínos 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 Yagüecas. 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.</p>

Puerto Rico, An Interpretive History

History

Olga Jimenez De Wagenheim

Americas

Markus Wiener Publishers

Puerto Rico: An Interpretive History from Pre-Columbian Times to 1900

Markus Wiener Pub

<p>The book, organized into ten historically-arranged parts, begins with the Island's discovery and settlement by the Spanish. It ends with the Operation Bootstrap program for industrialization, the development of a Commonwealth status, the mass migration of Hispanos to the United States after World War II, which resulted, in the editors' adroit phrase, in a 'divided nation.</p>

The Puerto Ricans: A Documentary History

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