Puerto Rico's Revolt For Independence


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This book is a socioeconomic interpretation of Puerto Rico's first and most significant attempt to end its colonial relationship with Spain. Looking at the imperial policies and conditions within Puerto Rico that led to the 1868 rebellion known as "El Grito de Lares," Dr. Jiménez de Wagenheim compares the colonization of Puerto Rico with that of Spanish America and explores the reasons why the island's independence movement began decades after Spain's other colonies in the region had revolted. Through the extensive use of previously unresearched archive material, she examines the economic and social backgrounds of the leaders of the rebel movement, corrects many errors of earlier accounts of the revolt, and offers new interpretations of its impact on Spanish-Puerto Rican relations.




Luisa Capetillo, Pioneer Puerto Rican Feminist


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Luisa Capetillo (1879-1922) was a pioneer in the struggle for women's and workers' rights. A feminist and an anarchist, she earned her living as a labor leader and journalist. She wrote brilliant theoretical essays and published four books, including several plays. Ahead of her time, she espoused vegetarianism, a daily regime of Swedish calisthenics, and was the first woman in the Caribbean to wear pants in public. Her life can be read as a dramatic novel, every day an intense ode to personal and political liberation. This biography, the only in-depth historical account of her life and work, rescued her from oblivion and made her a popular icon throughout Latin America. This edition, the first available in English, brings Capetillo's inspiring story to a broader audience.




National Union Catalog


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Includes entries for maps and atlases.




Meditaciones de Madrugada


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El viajar por América Latina nos enseña que tenemos iguales problemas económicos, que vivimos influenciados por la religión católica, y que soñamos... Racialmente, en cada país ha habido una población indígena, que con la llegada de españoles se convirtió en mestiza, a todo ello se fue incrementado los europeos que llegaron a estas tierras huyendo de las tiranías, la hambruna, las pestes, y otras plagas socioeconómicas y religiosas. Sin duda el problema racial no es ajeno a ninguno de nuestros países, es una herencia traída por los españoles desde el viejo continente, hay castas que mantienen costumbres arraigadas, dejando en extrema pobreza a quienes son descendientes directos de los antiguos y naturales pobladores de estas tierras. La economía se ha globalizado, y capitales extranjeros juegan en la Bolsa de Valores, indistintamente de quien explota, quien vende, quien arriesga o quien dilapida la riqueza nacional.




Op. Cit


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Juan Ramón Jiménez Y la Palabra Poética


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"Four studies, by a noted literary linguist, on the meaning and poetic expression of the universally acclaimed work Platero y yo, by the renowned, Nobel prize winning poet, Juan Ramon Jimenez."




Books in Print


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Solemnidades


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"A new, imaginative and lyrical Island voice is heard in this collection of poems by a poet who knows how to evoke the extraordinary in the ordinary ways people go about in their daily lives."




Quixotism


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Exposes the cultural roots of Spanish fascism.