Cesar J. Ayala (Los Angeles University of California), Laird W. Bergad (City University of New York Lehman College)

Agrarian Puerto Rico

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Produktbeschreibung

An examination of the evolution of land tenure and social structure in various economic zones of Puerto Rico during the early twentieth century. Archival data show that the integration of Puerto Rico into the US economy led to overwhelmingly diverse outcomes in different socioeconomic regions of the island.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9781108726375
• ISBN-10: 1108726372
• Artikelnr.: 74981368

Autorenporträt

César J. Ayala is a Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of American Sugar Kingdom: The Plantation Economy of the Spanish Caribbean, 1898-1934 (1999) and co-author of Puerto Rico in the American Century: A History Since 1898 (2007).

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
List of tables
List of maps
Introduction
1. The myth of the disappeared legion of proprietors
2. The coffee economy
3. The sugar industry
4. The tobacco industry
5. Economic transformation and demographic change
6. Land concentration/fragmentation using land-tax records
7. Rates of land ownership in rural Puerto Rico
8. Land tenure patterns using census data
9. Land use
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.