Buena Vista: Life and Work on a Puerto Rican Hacienda, 1833-1904 - Softcover

Baralt, Guillermo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807848018 ISBN 13: 9780807848012

Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press, 1999

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Book Description:

"A revealing story of agricultural modernization."-- Choice

From the Inside Flap:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0807848018
• ISBN 13: 9780807848012
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 208