{"product_id":"buena-vista-life-and-work-on-a-puerto-rican-hacienda-1833-1904-paperback","title":"Buena Vista: Life and Work on a Puerto Rican Hacienda, 1833-1904 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGuillermo Baralt\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.63 x 9.95 x 7.99 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 21, 1999\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42130730909831,"sku":"9780807848012","price":89.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/86e7a20d21a07b160e5bdd020e04433e.webp?v=1732613293","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/buena-vista-life-and-work-on-a-puerto-rican-hacienda-1833-1904-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}