Puerto Rico — Markus Wiener Publishers

Subject: Puerto Rico

Nationalist Heroines: Puerto Rican Women History Forgot, 1930s-1950s
	Jiménez de Wagenheim, Olga Subject: Puerto Rican History, US History, Women's History, Caribbean History	From the moment the United States seized Puerto Rico, in 1898, to the 1950s, the islanders employed various forms of resistance to the imposition of American colonial rule. A group of Nationalists led by Pedro Albizu Campos made it clear … More Information

Puerto Rico 1898: The War After the War
	Picó, Fernando Subject: Latin America, Caribbean	Picó’s text was originally published in Spanish in 1987, as one of several works written in the late-1990s marking the centennial of the Spanish-American-Cuban War of 1898 and its consequences for Puerto Rico. When the U.S. invaded Puerto Rico in … More Information

Puerto Rico Inside and Out: Changes and Continuities
	Picó, Fernando Subject: Caribbean	The essays in this book deal with continuity and change in Puerto Rico and together constitute a delightful San Juan reader from a thoughtful historian’s point of view. The themes range from Puerto Rican events as seen from Paris, to … More Information

Puerto Rico: An Interpretive History from Pre-Columbian Times to 1900
	de Wagenheim, Olga Jiménez Subject: Caribbean, Latin America, Puerto Rico	Because many of the documents and books about Puerto Rico have been written by the island’s colonizers, only the victors were celebrated. With this in mind, the author has expressly composed this book from the viewpoint of the colonized, suppressed, … More Information

Puerto Rico: The Four-Storied Country
	González, José Luis Subject: Caribbean	In this work, González dismantles the myth of a dominant Spanish and racially white national culture in Puerto Rican history. He claims that the national identity is primarily Mestizo (mixed race) with a significant contribution from Africa. González calls the … More Information

Puerto Rico’s Revolt for Independence: El Grito de Lares
	de Wagenheim, Olga Jiménez Subject: Caribbean	This book interprets Puerto Rico’s first and most significant attempt to end its colonial dependence on Spain. Looking at the imperial policies and conditions within Puerto Rico that led to the 1868 rebellion known as El Grito de Lares (the … More Information

Slave Revolts in Puerto Rico: Conspiracies and Uprisings, 1795-1873
	Baralt, Guillermo A. Subject: Caribbean	Winner of the Puerto Rico PEN Club Award From the emergence of the first sugar plantations up until 1873, when slavery was abolished, the wealth amassed by many landowners in Puerto Rico derived mainly from the exploitation … More Information

Taíno Revival: Critical Perspectives on Puerto Rican Identity and Cultural Politics
	Haslip-Viera, Gabriel, editor Subject: Caribbean	This simulating and timely collection examines the Taíno revival movement, a grassroots conglomeration of Puerto Ricans and other Latinos who promote or have adopted the culture and pedigree of the pre-Columbian Taíno Indian population of Puerto Rico and the … More Information

The Pond (La Charca): Puerto Rico’s 19th-Century Masterpiece
	Zeno-Gandia, Manuel (preface by Kal Wagenheim; introduction by Juan Flores) Subject: Caribbean, World Literature	Before the turn of the century, while the rich in Madrid, Paris and Rome capped their sumptuous dinners with sips of Puerto Rico’s exquisite black café, the anemic men, women and children who harvested the precious crop lived in squalid … More Information

The Puerto Ricans: A Documentary 50th Anniversary Edition 2023 Edition
	de Wagenheim, Olga, Jiménez and Kal Wagenheim, Luis Martînz-Fernandez, editors Subject: Puerto Rican History, Caribbean History, US History	*A panorama of Puerto Rican life from the 15th to the 21st century* For 50 years thousands of students, and readers interested in the history of Puerto Rico based on facts and documents have turned to this book. … More Information