Search Results - "Puerto Rico"

Beyond sun and sand Caribbean environmentalisms /

Table of Contents: “…Historical contentions and future trends in the coastal zones: the environmental movement in Puerto Rico /…”
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Beyond sun and sand Caribbean environmentalisms /

Table of Contents: “…Historical contentions and future trends in the coastal zones: the environmental movement in Puerto Rico /…”
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Colonial caring : A history of colonial and post-colonial nursing /

Table of Contents: “…American colonial and missionary nurses in Puerto Rico, 1900-30 /…”
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Colonial caring : A history of colonial and post-colonial nursing /

Table of Contents: “…American colonial and missionary nurses in Puerto Rico, 1900-30 /…”
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Rewriting Womanhood : Feminism, Subjectivity, and the Angel of the House in the Latin American Novel, 1887–1903 / by LaGreca, Nancy, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Women's imagined roles in nineteenth-century Mexico : seclusion in the midst of progress and early feminist reactions -- Coming of age(ncy) : Refugio Barragín de Toscano's La hija del bandido -- Women in Peru : national and private struggles for independence -- New models for new women : rethinking Cinderella's virtues and humanizing the stepmother in Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera's Blanca sol -- Women as body in Puerto Rico : medicine, morality, and institutionalizations of sexual oppression in the long nineteenth century -- Sexual agency in Ana Roque's Luz y sombra : a subversion of the essentialized woman.…”
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Rewriting Womanhood : Feminism, Subjectivity, and the Angel of the House in the Latin American Novel, 1887–1903 / by LaGreca, Nancy, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Women's imagined roles in nineteenth-century Mexico : seclusion in the midst of progress and early feminist reactions -- Coming of age(ncy) : Refugio Barragín de Toscano's La hija del bandido -- Women in Peru : national and private struggles for independence -- New models for new women : rethinking Cinderella's virtues and humanizing the stepmother in Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera's Blanca sol -- Women as body in Puerto Rico : medicine, morality, and institutionalizations of sexual oppression in the long nineteenth century -- Sexual agency in Ana Roque's Luz y sombra : a subversion of the essentialized woman.…”
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The conquest of history : Spanish colonialism and national histories in the nineteenth century / by Schmidt-Nowara, Christopher, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Spain between decolonizations : history against the currents of history -- Columbus's remains, Columbus in chains : commemoration and its discontents in late nineteenth-century Spain and Cuba -- The problem of prehistory in Puerto Rico and Cuba -- The specter of Las Casas -- Spain in the Philippines : archive and authority circa 1898 -- The return of Ponce de León.…”
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The conquest of history : Spanish colonialism and national histories in the nineteenth century / by Schmidt-Nowara, Christopher, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Spain between decolonizations : history against the currents of history -- Columbus's remains, Columbus in chains : commemoration and its discontents in late nineteenth-century Spain and Cuba -- The problem of prehistory in Puerto Rico and Cuba -- The specter of Las Casas -- Spain in the Philippines : archive and authority circa 1898 -- The return of Ponce de León.…”
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Letters and journals : early years of adventure. by Hubbard, L. Ron (La Fayette Ron), 1911-1986

Table of Contents: “…Ron Hubbard -- A first word on adventure -- Asian diaries -- Guam -- Homeward-bound aboard the Nitro -- Montana diaries -- The second Asian journal -- The Great Wall -- The Caribbean letters -- A Marine named Faulkner -- Letters from Puerto Rico -- Letter from the interior -- Epilogue.…”
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Letters and journals : early years of adventure. by Hubbard, L. Ron (La Fayette Ron), 1911-1986

Table of Contents: “…Ron Hubbard -- A first word on adventure -- Asian diaries -- Guam -- Homeward-bound aboard the Nitro -- Montana diaries -- The second Asian journal -- The Great Wall -- The Caribbean letters -- A Marine named Faulkner -- Letters from Puerto Rico -- Letter from the interior -- Epilogue.…”
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The American business cycle continuity and change /

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The American business cycle continuity and change /

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Culture works space, value, and mobility across the neoliberal Americas / by Dávila, Arlene M., 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Ideologies of consumption and the business of shopping malls -- Authenticity and space in Puerto Rico's culture-based informal economy -- The battle for cultural equity in the global arts capital of the world -- The trials of building a national museum of the American Latino -- Through commerce, for community: Miguel Luciano's nuyorican interventions -- Tango tourism and the political economy of space -- Urban/creative expats: outsourcing lives in Buenos Aires -- Conclusion: the cultural politics of neoliberalism.…”
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Culture works space, value, and mobility across the neoliberal Americas / by Dávila, Arlene M., 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Ideologies of consumption and the business of shopping malls -- Authenticity and space in Puerto Rico's culture-based informal economy -- The battle for cultural equity in the global arts capital of the world -- The trials of building a national museum of the American Latino -- Through commerce, for community: Miguel Luciano's nuyorican interventions -- Tango tourism and the political economy of space -- Urban/creative expats: outsourcing lives in Buenos Aires -- Conclusion: the cultural politics of neoliberalism.…”
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History of the Caribbean : plantations, trade, and war in the Atlantic world / by Moya Pons, Frank, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…The Spanish occupation of the Antilles -- Sugar and slaves in the Spanish Antilles -- Monopoly, privateers, and contraband -- The early tobacco colonies -- The Sugar Revolution in the Lesser Antilles -- Poverty in the Spanish Antilles -- The emergence of Saint-Domingue -- Caribbean sugar economies in the Eighteenth Century -- Caribbean trade circuits in the Eighteenth Century -- Trade and wars -- The French Revolution in the Antilles -- New peasantries in Haiti and Santo Domingo -- Abolitionism and crisis in the British West Indies -- Sugar without slaves in the British and French Antilles -- The Sugar Revolution in Cuba and Puerto Rico -- Abolitionism in the Spanish Antilles -- Centrales and colonos -- Plantations under American control -- Migrants, peasants, and proletarians -- Why the sugar plantation?.…”
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History of the Caribbean : plantations, trade, and war in the Atlantic world / by Moya Pons, Frank, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…The Spanish occupation of the Antilles -- Sugar and slaves in the Spanish Antilles -- Monopoly, privateers, and contraband -- The early tobacco colonies -- The Sugar Revolution in the Lesser Antilles -- Poverty in the Spanish Antilles -- The emergence of Saint-Domingue -- Caribbean sugar economies in the Eighteenth Century -- Caribbean trade circuits in the Eighteenth Century -- Trade and wars -- The French Revolution in the Antilles -- New peasantries in Haiti and Santo Domingo -- Abolitionism and crisis in the British West Indies -- Sugar without slaves in the British and French Antilles -- The Sugar Revolution in Cuba and Puerto Rico -- Abolitionism in the Spanish Antilles -- Centrales and colonos -- Plantations under American control -- Migrants, peasants, and proletarians -- Why the sugar plantation?.…”
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Ancient mines and quarries a trans-Atlantic perspective /

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Ancient mines and quarries a trans-Atlantic perspective /

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Decolonizing Diasporas : Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Literature / by Figueroa-Vásquez, Yomaira C

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Decolonizing Diasporas : Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Literature / by Figueroa-Vásquez, Yomaira C

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