Women in San Juan, 1820-1868

by Félix V. Matos Rodríguez

Book Overview

Matos Rodr guez uses the lens of women's experiences to shed light on key problems in nineteenth-century Puerto Rican historiography.

The author provides an overview of the city's spatial, economic, and demographic development since the late eighteenth century. San Juan emerges as a dynamic city full of contradictions, whose population tripled between 1776 and 1874. Up until the 1850s and early 1860s, San Juan was a city in which...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558762833
• ISBN13: 9781558762831
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: Markus Wiener Publishers
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"