The history of Puerto Rico /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Santa Barbara, Calif. :
Greenwood Press,
[2010]
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| Series: | Greenwood histories of the modern nations.
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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).