The Puerto Ricans: A Documentary History - Softcover

 
9781558769571: The Puerto Ricans: A Documentary History

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50th anniversary edition 1973-2023. This expanded edition covers 500 years of Puerto Rico's history, providing a kaleidoscopic view of the island's past. It begins with a preface by the editors celebrating the 50th anniversary of the book's first printing and includes new sections on the debt crisis and the end of the bankruptcy procedure in 2022, the COVID pandemic and its consequences, the hurricanes from Maria to Fiona and their aftermath, The 2022 elections and the upcoming plebiscite.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Kal Wagenheim is a former New York Times reporter and has taught journalism and creative writing at Columbia University and the State Prison in Trenton, NJ. He is the author of several books and plays including Clemente! The Enduring Legacy and the novel The Secret Life of Walter Mott.

Olga Jiménez de Wagenheim is Professor Emerita in History, Rutgers University. She has published several books on Puerto Rico, including Puerto Rico: An Interpretive History from Pre-Columbian Times to 1900, Puerto Rico's Revolt for Independence: El Grito de Lares, and Nationalist Heroines: Puerto Rican Women History Forgot, 1930s-1950s.

Luis Martínez-Fernández is Pegasus Professor of History at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. His research and publications have focused on Cuba, the Hispanic Caribbean, and the Cuban and Puerto Rican diasporas in Florida. He is the author of several books including Frontiers, Plantations, and Walled Cities and When the World Went Upside Down.

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