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

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

Guillermo A. Baralt ; translated by Andrew Hurley

University of North Carolina Press, c1999

  • : pbk

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La Buena Vista, 1833-1904 : estancia de frutos menores, fábrica de harinas y hacienda cafetalera

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Originally published by Fideicomiso de Conservación de Puerto Rico, c1988

Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-179) and index

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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. |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.

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