Puerto Rico a national history
Puerto Rico is a Spanish-speaking territory of the United States with a history shaped by conquest and resistance. For centuries, Puerto Ricans have crafted and negotiated complex ideas about nationhood. Jorell Meléndez-Badillo provides a new history of Puerto Rico that gives voice to the archipelag...
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Princeton ; Oxford :
Princeton University Press
[2024]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Prologue: "I am never coming back here"
- Borikén's first peoples: from migration to insurrection
- Consolidating the colonial project
- From reform to revolution
- Imagining the great Puerto Rican family
- Chronicle of a war foretold
- Foundations of U.S. colonialism in Puerto Rico
- A turbulent decade
- The populist moment
- The Great Migration
- The Cold War and the new push for independence
- The road to neoliberalism
- Broken promises and ongoing resistance
- The night everything went silent
- The storm's aftermath
- Broken memories and future-oriented histories
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Selected thematic bibliography
- Index.
