The history of Puerto Rico /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pierce Flores, Lisa
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Santa Barbara, Calif. : Greenwood Press, [2010]
Series:Greenwood histories of the modern nations.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Puerto Rico and its people
  • Borinquen: origins and encounter (4000 BCE-1500 CE)
  • Spanish colony: from San Juan Bautista to Puerto Rico (1493-1800)
  • Spanish province: autonomy thwarted (1800-1898)
  • U.S. territory: military occupation and civil government (1898-1948)
  • Commonwealth: the freely associated state of Puerto Rico (1948-1968)
  • State of transition: after Operation Bootstrap (1968-1998)
  • Puerto Rico today (1999-2009).