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Buena Vista - Life and Work on a Puerto Rican Hacienda, 1833-1904 (Paperback, New edition)
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Buena Vista - Life and Work on a Puerto Rican Hacienda, 1833-1904 (Paperback, New edition)
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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. |This translation of a Caribbean classic
vividly captures the full history of Buena Vista, the 19th-century
Puerto Rican estate that is now a popular living history museum.
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