Puerto Rico at the dawn of the modern age nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century perspectives ; from selected divisions of the Library of Congress.

Abstract

Portrays the early history of the commonwealth of Puerto Rico through first-person accounts, political writings, and histories drawn from the Library of Congress's General Collections. Among the topics it highlights are the land and its resources, relations with Spain, the competition among political parties, reform efforts, and recollections by veterans of the Spanish-American War. Materials in the collection were published between 1831 and 1929 and consist of thirty-nine political pamphlets, eighteen monographs, and one journal.Title from home page as viewed on Apr. 4, 2000.A collaborative project of the Library of Congress Hispanic Division and the National Digital Library Program in recognition of the centennial of the Spanish-American War.Selected from the collections of the Library of Congress's Humanities and Social Sciences Division, General Collection, Hispanic Division, and Geography and Map Division.Offered as part of the American Memory online resource