Agrarian Puerto Rico: Reconsidering Rural Economy and Society, 1899-1940 - Hardcover

Ayala, César J.; Bergad, Laird W.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1108488463 ISBN 13: 9781108488464

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2020

Synopsis

Challenges dominant interpretations of colonialism's impact on the economy and social structuring of a US-owned Caribbean colony.

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About the Authors

César J. Ayala is a Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of American Sugar Kingdom: The Plantation Economy of the Spanish Caribbean, 1898–1934 (1999) and co-author of Puerto Rico in the American Century: A History Since 1898 (2007).

Laird W. Bergad is a Distinguished Professor of Latin American and Caribbean History at Lehman College, City University of New York and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of Slavery and the Demographic and Economic History of Minas Gerais, Brazil, 1720–1888 (1999) and co-author of Hispanics in the United States: A Demographic, Social, and Economic History 1980–2005 (2010).

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1108488463
• ISBN 13: 9781108488464
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 322