Rethinking Puerto Rican Precolonial History

by Reniel Rodriguez Ramos

Book Overview

Focuses on the successive indigenous cultures of Puerto Rico prior to 1493

The history of Puerto Rico has usually been envisioned as a sequence of colonizations-various indigenous peoples from Archaic through Ta?no were successively invaded, assimilated, or eliminated, followed by the Spanish entrada, which was then modified by African traditions and, since 1898, by the United States. The truth is more complex, but in many ways...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817356096
• ISBN13: 9780817356095
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"