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PublisherUniversity of North Carolina Press
ISBN-100807848018
ISBN-139780807848012
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Edition2
Book TitleBuena Vista : Life and Work on a Puerto Rican Hacienda, 1833-1904
Number of Pages208 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1999
TopicInvestments & Securities / Commodities / General, Industries / Agribusiness, Caribbean & West Indies / General
FeaturesNew Edition
IllustratorYes
GenreBusiness & Economics, History
AuthorGuillermo Baralt
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight11.7 Oz
Item Length9.9 in
Item Width8 in
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LCCN98-037128
ReviewsThanks to this wonderful English translation, a contemporary Caribbean classic is now accessible to a wider readership.Francisco A. Scarano, University of Wisconsin-Madison, [A]ny visitor to Puerto Rico should read [this book] before making an obligatory visit to the island s Living Museum of Art and Science. Planeta.com, [A]ny visitor to Puerto Rico should read [this book] before making an obligatory visit to the island•s Living Museum of Art and Science.Planeta.com, [A]ny visitor to Puerto Rico should read [this book] before making an obligatory visit to the islandes Living Museum of Art and Science. Planeta.com, Out of the more than a score of agricultural estate histories that were originally researched and published in the Latin American history field in the 1970s and 1980s, Guillermo Baralt's work stands out as one of the most durable and most useful, especially as it is packaged in this 1999 edition. . . . Buena Vista can be used productively by both students and specialists alike. As a course text, because of its broad thematic applications, it can be used effectively in Latin American history and Latin American studies courses.-- The Americas, [A]ny visitor to Puerto Rico should read [this book] before making an obligatory visit to the island s Living Museum of Art and Science.Planeta.com, Thanks to this wonderful English translation, a contemporary Caribbean classic is now accessible to a wider readership. Francisco A. Scarano, University of Wisconsin-Madison, [A]ny visitor to Puerto Rico should read [this book] before making an obligatory visit to the island*s Living Museum of Art and Science. Planeta.com, [A]ny visitor to Puerto Rico should read [this book] before making an obligatory visit to the island'_¢s Living Museum of Art and Science. Planeta.com, This is an exceptional book, one that any visitor to Puerto Rico should read before making an obligatory visit to the island's Living Museum of Art and Science.-- Planeta.com
Edition DescriptionNew Edition
Table Of ContentContentsForeword to the English Translation, by Teresita Martínez Vergne Acknowledgments Abbreviations Table of Weights and Measures Introduction Chapter 1. Ponce in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century Chapter 2. The Founding of Buena Vista: From Farm to Cornmeal Factory Chapter 3. The Flour and Cornmeal Market in Ponce Chapter 4. Buena Vista: A Village of Slaves, 1833-1873 Chapter 5. Coffee at Buena Vista: The Farm Becomes a Coffee Plantation, 1868-1898 Chapter 6. Hired Workers, 1873-1898 Chapter 7. Buena Vista after the U.S. Invasion, 1898-1904 Chapter 8. Conclusions Afterword Chronology of Hacienda Buena Vista Inventory of Buena Vista, 1863 Notes Bibliography Index Tables1.1. Population of Ponce, 1846 1.2. Institutional and Administrative History of the Municipality of Ponce, 1800-1877 2.1. Commercial Crops, Buena Vista 2.2. Inventory of Livestock, Buena Vista, 1846 3.1. Main Crops in Ponce, 1864 3.2. Corn Prices, Buena Vista, 1868 3.3. Corn Purchases per Five-Year Period, 1850-1869 3.4. Buena Vista's Yearly Purchases of Corn, 1858-1871 3.5. Cornmeal Production at Buena Vista, 1850-1861 3.6. Buyers of Buena Vista Cornmeal, 1854 3.7. Income from Mill, 1850-1870 4.1. Number of Slaves at Buena Vista, 1846-1872 4.2. List of Slaves at Buena Vista, 1858 4.3. Place of Birth of Buena Vista Slaves 4.4. Deaths Caused by Cholera in Ponce, 1855-1856 4.5. Slave Deaths in Ponce, December 1855-November 1856 4.6. Runaway Slaves in Ponce, 1853-1865 5.1. Coffee Production in Puerto Rico, 1864-1896 5.2. Coffee Production in Ponce, by Barrio, 1863 5.3. Main Coffee-Producing Municipalities in Puerto Rico, 1897 5.4. Coffee Prices, 1839-1894 5.5. Coffee Exports, by Port, 1888 5.6. Losses at Buena Vista from Hurricane San Narciso, 1867 5.7. Replanting of Coffee Trees on Buena Vista, 1886 5.8. Buena Vista Coffee Production, 1861-1897 6.1. Jobs Done by Hired Workers at Buena Vista, 1873-1904 6.2. Coffee Pickers at Buena Vista, 1874 6.3. Coffee Pickers at Buena Vista, 1890 6.4. Payment to Coffee Pickers per Almud of Coffee Picked at Buena Vista, 1874-1894 6.5. Overseers at Buena Vista, 1872-1878 6.6. Salaries at Buena Vista for All Hired Workers (approximately 10), 1875 7.1. Coffee Production, Buena Vista, 1893-1900
SynopsisThis book traces the history of Buena Vista, an estate located in the southern foothills of Puerto Rico's central mountain range. Now a popular living history museum, Buena Vista flourished in the nineteenth century--first as a farm that furnished food for the city of Ponce and surrounding plantations, later as a producer of corn and cornmeal ground at the estate's water-powered mill, and finally as a coffee plantation. Drawing on an impressive range of primary sources, Guillermo Baralt portrays the estate's history as a series of overlapping changes: from slavery to salaried labor, from primitive processing techniques to the latest in mill technology, from Spanish rule to American control, and from hard-scrabble country life to life as part of the world marketplace. Richly illustrated and written in a lively narrative style, Buena Vista paints a compelling portrait of an era, an island, a family, and an estate, bringing a period in Caribbean history to vivid life., This book traces the history of Buena Vista, an estate located in the southern foothills of Puerto Rico's central mountain range. Now a popular living history museum, Buena Vista flourished in the nineteenth century—first as a farm that furnished food for the city of Ponce and surrounding plantations, later as a producer of corn and cornmeal ground at the estate's water-powered mill, and finally as a coffee plantation.Drawing on an impressive range of primary sources, Guillermo Baralt portrays the estate's history as a series of overlapping changes: from slavery to salaried labor, from primitive processing techniques to the latest in mill technology, from Spanish rule to American control, and from hard-scrabble country life to life as part of the world marketplace. Richly illustrated and written in a lively narrative style,Buena Vistapaints a compelling portrait of an era, an island, a family, and an estate, bringing a period in Caribbean history to vivid life., Edited by two leading experts on the languages of West Africa, this volume is the very first book to handle a range of topics in the syntax of Kwa, a branch of the Niger-Congo language family spoken by approximately 20 million people in Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, and Benin and in the extreme southwestern corner of Nigeria. Kwa includes a total of 45 related languages. The nine chapters each address a separate grammatical aspect of Kwa. These range from topics such as the verb phrase, argument structure, verb serialization and complex predicates, to discussions on tense, mood, and aspect and their relation to the structure of sentences. Also addressed are the structure of the noun phrase and the syntax of discourse particles. The studies in this volume demonstrate that Kwa languages offer a very rich empirical domain for linguistic theorizing. In this book, experts who are mostly native speakers present empirical data and show its theoretical relevance to comparative linguistics and comparative syntax. The book brings together a wealth of material and fresh insights and is a superb example of how empirical research feeds into typological and theoretical linguistics. As such, it is a gold mine to students and teachers of comparative syntax, as well as for anyone interested in studies on Niger Congo languages., This book traces the history of Buena Vista, an estate located in the southern foothills of Puerto Rico's central mountain range. Now a popular living history museum, Buena Vista flourished in the nineteenth century--first as a farm that furnished food for the city of Ponce and surrounding plantations, later as a producer of corn and cornmeal ground at the estate's water-powered mill, and finally as a coffee plantation.Drawing on an impressive range of primary sources, Guillermo Baralt portrays the estate's history as a series of overlapping changes: from slavery to salaried labor, from primitive processing techniques to the latest in mill technology, from Spanish rule to American control, and from hard-scrabble country life to life as part of the world marketplace. Richly illustrated and written in a lively narrative style, Buena Vista paints a compelling portrait of an era, an island, a family, and an estate, bringing a period in Caribbean history to vivid life., The history of Buena Vista, an estate located in the southern foothills of Puerto Rico's central mountain range. Drawing on a range of primary sources, it portrays the estate's history as a series of overlapping changes: from slavery to salaried labour, from Spanish rule to American control.
LC Classification NumberHD1471.P92P66313
