The history of Puerto Rico [electronic resource]
Lisa Pierce Flores.
- Santa Barbara, Calif. Greenwood Press c2010.
- 1 online resource (xxv, 155 p., [7] p. of plates) ill., map 25 cm.
- The Greenwood histories of the modern nations .
- Greenwood histories of the modern nations. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Puerto Rico and its people -- Borinquen: origins and encounter (4000 BCE-1500 CE) -- Spanish colony: from San Juan Bautista to Puerto Rico (1493-1800) -- Spanish province: autonomy thwarted (1800-1898) -- U.S. territory: military occupation and civil government (1898-1948) -- Commonwealth: the freely associated state of Puerto Rico (1948-1968) -- State of transition: after Operation Bootstrap (1968-1998) -- Puerto Rico today (1999-2009).