Van Middeldyk, Rudolph Adams <br/><br/>
The history of Puerto Rico;  from the Spanish discovery to the American occupation/ 
by R.A. Van Middeldyk, edited by Martin G. Brumbaugh. 
 - 2a ed. 
 - San Juan, P.R.  Fundación Puertorriqueña de las Humanidades [etc.]  c2005. 
 - xvii, 318 p.  front plates  20 cm. 
 - Colección We the people Puerto Rican series .
<br/><br/> Reprinted in facsimile by La Fundacion Puertorriqueña de las Humanidades, Academia Puertorriqueña de la Historia, Oficina del Historiador de Puerto Rico, National Endowment for the Humanities. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical refences (p. 311-312). 
<br/><br/>pt. 1. Historical.--pt. 2. The people and their institutions. 
<br/><br/> Van Middledyk's work was the first major historical study of Puerto Rico in English. Van Middledyk advanced Puerto Rican historiography by building on the works of Brau, Coll y Toste, and Acosta, and by consulting early Spanish chronicles. A librarian at the Free Public Library of San Juan, Van Middledyk possessed knowledge of and access to considerable primary source material. His history is sympathetic to the Indians and highly critical of Spanish colonial administration. Coming in the wake of American military occupation, the book sought to explain and justify control of the island by the United States. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1933352035 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Puerto Rico--History--To 1898.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>F1973  / .V26 2005 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>F 1973  / .V26 2005