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

Chapter 1 – The Land and the Amerindians
Chapter 2 – The Newcomers to Boriquén
Chapter 3 – “Discovery”, Conquest and Colonization
Chapter 4 – Foreign Attacks and Imperial Neglect, 1570s–1699
Chapter 5 – The Colony is Reformed, 1700–1799
Chapter 6 – Creoles Seek Political and Economic Power, 1800–1830s
Chapter 7 – Sugar, Slavery and Absolute Rule, 1830–1867
Chapter 8 – From the Lares Uprising to Autonomy, 1868–1897
Chapter 9 – Invasion and Occupation by the United States, 1898–1900
Chapter 10 – Portrait of the Society