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Author: Ramon Bosque-Perez
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 079148338X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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Puerto Rico, one of the last and most populated colonial territories in the world, occupies a relatively unique position. Its lengthy interaction with the United States has resulted in the long-term acquisition of expanded legal rights and relative political stability. At the same time, that interaction has simultaneously seen political intolerance and the denial of basic rights, particularly toward those who have challenged colonialism. In Puerto Rico under Colonial Rule, academics and intellectuals from the fields of political science, history, sociology, and law examine three themes: evidence of state-sponsored political persecution in the twentieth century, contemporary issues, and the case of Vieques.

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Publisher: Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Puerto Rico y el Caribe
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Category : History
Languages : es
Pages : 404

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Author: Carlos Domínguez Cristóbal
Publisher: La Editorial, UPR
ISBN: 9780847702978
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 718

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An investigation into government forestry policies in Puerto Rico and how these have impacted on the condition of the country's forests.

Author: John Kelly Thornton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521627245
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 382

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This edition contains a new chapter extending the story into the eighteenth century.

Author: Vicki L. Ruiz
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198035020
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273

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Spanning two centuries, this collection documents the lives of fifteen remarkable Latinas who witnessed, defined, defied, and wrote about the forces that shaped their lives. As entrepreneurs, community activists, mystics, educators, feminists, labor organizers, artists and entertainers, Latinas used the power of the pen to traverse and transgress cultural conventions.

Author: Joan Gill Blank
Publisher: Pineapple Press Inc
ISBN: 1561641030
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 239

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Using many photographs, the author reveals a fascinating piece of geography, Key Biscayne - America's southernmost barrier island.

Author: Douglas T. Peck
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1462821014
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 497

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This book introduces an innovative and verified pattern of Maya history that follows the origin of the Olmec culture in Tabasco through its melding into and becoming the Chontal Maya/Itza of the Yucatan. The Yucatan has been the focal point and geographical crossroad of profound cultural, ethnological, and sociological change and development in Mesoamerica from ancient times to the present. This far-reaching and historically significant acculturation was brought about by two widely separated epic migrations and military conquests by foreign peoples bringing radically new, innovative, and advanced culture to the area. The first of these was the migration and military conquest by the Olmec/Chontal Maya/Itza from Tabasco bringing their written language, mathematics, architectural expertise, and religion into northern and central Yucatan. This golden age of Maya civilization, centered in the Yucatan, lasted for a millennium during which the advanced Maya culture flowered and spread south into Honduras and Guatemala and west into the highlands of Mexico. In like manner, the second migration and military conquest of the Yucatan by Spanish conquistadors also brought new and advanced cultural norms to the area. The history of the origin, development, and impact of these two momentous events constitutes the thrust of this book and is contrary to and challenges much of the currently accepted historiography related to the subject. Contrary to current consensus the book shows that the seafaring and mercantile oriented Chontal Maya/Itza from Yucatan were a populous worldly element of the Maya civilization who traveled and spread their cultural influence not only throughout continental Mesoamerica, but ventured across the seas to the islands of the Caribbean and to the shores of Southwest Florida in the territory of the Calusa Indians. Consistent with this accomplishment, they had developed naval engineering, Metallurgy, tool design, woodworking, and ship building capabilities that enabled them to construct the large composite seaworthy vessels (not just log canoes) required. And from their expertise in mathematics and astronomy they developed a sophisticated method of celestial navigation for their overseas voyages a millennium before celestial navigation was developed in Europe.

Author: Antonello Gerbi
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 0822973812
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 481

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Translated by Jeremy Moyle In Nature in the New World (translated into English in 1985), Antonello Gerbi examines the fascinating reports of the first Europeans to see the Americas. These accounts provided the basis for the images of strange and new flora, fauna, and human creatures that filled European imaginations.Initial chapters are devoted to the writings of Columbus, Vespucci, Cortes, Verrazzano, and others. The second portion of the book concerns the Historia general y natural de las Indias of Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo, a work commissioned by Charles V of Spain in 1532 but not published in its entirety until the 1850s. Antonello Gerbi contends that Oviedo, a Spanish administrator who lived in Santo Domingo, has been unjustly neglected as a historian. Gerbi shows that Oviedo was a major authority on the culture, history, and conquest of the New World.

Author: Florida. University, Gainesville. Libraries. Catalog Dept
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Category : Caribbean Area
Languages : en
Pages : 364

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Author: Epigraphic Society
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Category : Inscriptions
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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