{"product_id":"buena-vista-life-and-work-on-a-puerto-rican-hacienda-1833-1904-9780807848012","title":"Buena Vista: Life and Work on a Puerto Rican Hacienda, 1833-1904","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003eDrawing 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, \u003ci\u003eBuena Vista\u003c\/i\u003e paints a compelling portrait of an era, an island, a family, and an estate, bringing a period in Caribbean history to vivid life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Guillermo Baralt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of North Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/21\/1999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.16lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.95h x 7.99w x 0.63d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807848012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBaralt, Guillermo:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Guillermo A. Baralt is professor of history at the University of Puerto Rico.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of North Carolina Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40265602695283,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":47.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_3369f659-8ec7-49e4-93c2-4fe9e3e5462e.jpg?v=1657721563","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/buena-vista-life-and-work-on-a-puerto-rican-hacienda-1833-1904-9780807848012","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}