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This audiobook narrated by Tony Chiroldes traces the multifaceted history of Puerto Rico from pre-Columbian times to today
Puerto Rico is a Spanish-speaking territory of the United States with a history shaped by conquest and resistance. For centuries, Puerto Ricans have crafted and negotiated complex ideas about nationhood. Jorell Meléndez-Badillo provides a new history of Puerto Rico that gives voice to the archipelago's people while offering a lens through which to understand the political, economic, and social challenges confronting them today.
In this masterful work of scholarship, Meléndez-Badillo sheds light on the vibrant cultures of the archipelago in the centuries before the arrival of Columbus, and captures the full sweep of Puerto Rico's turbulent history in the centuries that followed, from the first indigenous insurrection against colonial rule in 1511—led by the powerful chieftain Agüeybaná II—to the establishment of the Commonwealth in 1952. He deftly portrays the contemporary period and the intertwined though unequal histories of the archipelago and the continental United States.
Puerto Rico is an engaging, sometimes personal, and consistently surprising history of colonialism, revolt, and the creation of a national identity, offering new perspectives not only on Puerto Rico and the Caribbean but on the United States and the Atlantic world more broadly.
Available in Spanish from our partners at Grupo Planeta
Audiobook details
GenreHistory
Length10 hrs 27 mins
Narrated byTony Chiroldes
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateApr 2, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Opening Credit, Dedication
10Chapter 8 - The Populist Moment
2Prologue - "I Am Never Coming Back Here"
11Chapter 9 - The Great Migration
3Chapter 1 - Borikén's First Peoples: From Migration to Insurrection
12Chapter 10 - The Cold War and the New Push for Independence
4Chapter 2 - Consolidating the Colonial Project
13Chapter 11 -The Road to Collapse
5Chapter 3 - Revolutionary Winds: From Reform to Revolution
14Chapter 12 - Broken Promises and Ongoing Resistance
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6Chapter 4 - Imagining the Great Puerto Rican Family
15Chapter 13 - The Night Every thing Went Silent
7Chapter 5 - Chronicle of a War Foretold
16Chapter 14 - The Storm after María
8Chapter 6 - Foundations of U.S. Colonialism in Puerto Rico
17Chapter 15 - Broken Memories and Future- Oriented Histories
9Chapter 7 -A Turbulent Decade
18Closing Credits
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