Puerto Rico 1898: The War After the War - Softcover

Pico, Fernando

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1558763279 ISBN 13: 9781558763272

Verlag: Markus Wiener Publishers, 2014

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Book by Fernando Pico

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Críticas:

The book is essentially the story of partidas sediciosas, armed groups that terrorized the Puerto Rican countryside in 1898 and 1899. Chiefly active during and after the invasion (July to October 1898), the partidas focused their anger on peninsular Spanish merchants and landowners. The bandits battered or killed their victims, and almost invariably destroyed property... Pico's thoughtful typology of the partidas sheds light on the tensions that undercut Puerto Rican society at the end of the nineteenth century. The author reconstructs, with the help of U.S. military records, previously unexplored aspects of the invasion. - American Historical Review; ""In this as in his earlier works, Pico, following the method of the Annales school, has reconstructed a period of Puerto Rico's history in splendid fashion. It should be of interest to social historians and students of Puerto Rican, Latin American, and U.S. History."" - Hispanic American Historical Review

Reseña del editor:

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 1898, the country was seriously divided by social conflicts; the invasion gave rise to violent expression of those preexisting conflicts. Picó examines the armed groups that terrorized the Puerto Rican countryside in 1898 and 1899, attacking first the farms and rural stores of Spaniards, and later those of native-born Puerto Ricans of European descent.

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• Verlag: Markus Wiener Publishers
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1558763279
• ISBN 13: 9781558763272
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 194