Buena Vista : life and work on a Puerto Rican hacienda, 1833-1904 /

Buena Vista : life and work on a Puerto Rican hacienda, 1833-1904 /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Baralt, Guillermo A., 1948-
Uniform title:	Buena Vista, 1833-1904. English
Imprint:	Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, c1999.
Description:	xiv, 183 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Haciendas -- Puerto Rico -- Ponce -- History -- 19th century. Grain trade -- Puerto Rico -- Ponce -- History -- 19th century. Coffee industry -- Puerto Rico -- Ponce -- History -- 19th century. Coffee industry. Grain trade. Haciendas. Buena Vista Hacienda (P.R.) -- History. Puerto Rico -- Buena Vista Hacienda. Puerto Rico -- Ponce. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4273809

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ISBN:	0807824747 (cloth : alk. paper) 0807848018 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-179) and index.

Table of Contents:

Foreword to the English Translation / Teresita Martinez Vergne
1. Ponce in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century
2. The Founding of Buena Vista: From Farm to Cornmeal Factory
3. The Flour and Cornmeal Market in Ponce
4. Buena Vista: A Village of Slaves, 1833-1873
5. Coffee at Buena Vista: The Farm Becomes a Coffee Plantation, 1868-1898
6. Hired Workers, 1873-1898
7. Buena Vista after the U.S. Invasion, 1898-1904
8. Conclusions
Chronology of Hacienda Buena Vista
Inventory of Buena Vista, 1863.