TY  - BOOK
AU  - Van Middeldyk,Rudolph Adams
AU  - Brumbaugh,Martin Grove
ED  - Fundación Puertorriqueña de las Humanidades.
ED  - National Endowment for the Humanities.
ED  - Puerto Rico.
ED  - Academia Puertorriqueña de la Historia P.R.
TI  - The history of Puerto Rico: from the Spanish discovery to the American occupation
T2  - Colección We the people Puerto Rican series
SN  - 1933352035
AV  - F1973 .V26 2005
U1  - F 1973 
PY  - 2005///
CY  - San Juan, P.R.
PB  - Fundación Puertorriqueña de las Humanidades [etc.]
KW  - Puerto Rico
KW  - History
KW  - To 1898
KW  - Local
N1  - 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; Includes bibliographical refences (p. 311-312); pt. 1. Historical.--pt. 2. The people and their institutions; Originally published: New York : D. Appleton and Co., 1903
N2  - 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
ER  -