List of Maps
Weights and Measures
Preface to the English Edition
Preface to the First Spanish Edition
1. The Formation of the Land of Puerto Rico
2. Amerindian Societies
3. Backgrounds of the New Settlers of Puerto Rico
4. The Conquest of Boriquén
5. Agriculture and Cattle Raising in the Sixteenth and
Seventeenth Centuries
6. Puerto Rico in the Struggle for Commercial Hegemony
in the Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Caribbean
7. Corsairs and Settlers, 1700–1765
8. Political Transformations, 1765–1823
9. Faces New and Old: The Population, 1765–1823
10. The Transition to Monoculture, 1765–1823
11. A Slaveholding Society, 1824–1868
12. The Hour of the Mountains, 1868–1898
13. Puerto Rico Becomes a Vast Sugar Plantation
14. The New Industrial and Urban Order, 1940–1980
15. Changes in Perceptions and Values from the 1960s to 2005
16. Alternations in Power, 1980–2017
Notes
Selected Bibliography