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Puerto Rico Inside and Out: Changes and Continuities
Fernando Pico
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Description for Puerto Rico Inside and Out: Changes and Continuities
Hardcover. Features essays that deal with continuity and change in Puerto Rico. This title presents a window onto San Juan's cultural mosaic. It records descriptions of older Puerto Ricans and reflects on turning points in Puerto Rican history. It also describes bus riding etiquette and documents how neighborhoods are changing. Num Pages: 140 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJP; 3JJP; HBJK; HBLW3; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Fernando Pico is Puerto Rico's leading historian and author of over 20 books in Spanish and two translated into English.Less known is that he started his career as a columnist for the leading English-language newspaper in Puerto Rico, the ""San Juan Star"", from the early 1970s to the 1980s. At that time he was a free-wheeling young grad student and later a professor, and the editor of the newspaper often cut out his more radical commentary. Thus, Pico had to resort to oblique satire.These essays deal with continuity and change in Puerto Rico, and constitute a delightful San Juan reader ... Read more
Fernando Pico is Puerto Rico's leading historian and author of over 20 books in Spanish and two translated into English.Less known is that he started his career as a columnist for the leading English-language newspaper in Puerto Rico, the ""San Juan Star"", from the early 1970s to the 1980s. At that time he was a free-wheeling young grad student and later a professor, and the editor of the newspaper often cut out his more radical commentary. Thus, Pico had to resort to oblique satire.These essays deal with continuity and change in Puerto Rico, and constitute a delightful San Juan reader ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Markus Wiener Publishers
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
140
Place of Publication
Princeton, United States
ISBN
9781558764811
SKU
V9781558764811
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