Puerto Rico
A National History
1st Edition
Published on 2. April 2024
312 pages
978-0-691-23128-0 (ISBN)
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Jorell Meléndez-Badillo is assistant professor of Latin American and Caribbean history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of The Lettered Barriada: Workers, Archival Power, and the Politics of Knowledge in Puerto Rico.
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Prologue: "I Am Never Coming Back Here
- 1. Borikén's First Peoples: From Migration to Insurrection
- 2. Consolidating the Colonial Project
- 3. Revolutionary Winds: From Reform to Revolution
- 4. Imagining the Great Puerto Rican Family
- 5. Chronicle of a War Foretold
- 6. Foundations of U.S. Colonialism in Puerto Rico
- 7. A Turbulent Decade
- 8. The Populist Moment
- 9. The Great Migration
- 10. The Cold War and the New Push for Independence
- 11. The Road to Collapse
- 12. Broken Promises and Ongoing Resistance
- 13. The Night Everything Went Silent
- 14. The Storm after María
- 15. Broken Memories and Future-Oriented Histories
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Selected Thematic Bibliography
- Index
