L' émigration corse à Porto Rico
By: Marie-Jeanne Casablanca.
Publisher: Editions "Le signet,"
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Corte [France]
Language: fre
Number of pages: 246
Subjects: Corsicans -- Puerto Rico -- History -- 19th century.; Immigrants -- Puerto Rico -- History -- 19th century.; Coffee growers -- Puerto Rico -- History -- 19th century..; Puerto Rico -- History -- To 1898.; Puerto Rico -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th century.; Corsica (France) -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th century.
Description: "Adds European source material to María Dolores Luque de Sánchez's previous work on Corsican immigration to Puerto Rico (see HLAS 52:1778). Establishes overpopulation and soil depletion in Corsica as push factors, and attributes immigrant success to extensive experience in agriculture and trade"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Presented as the author's thesis, Aox-en-Provence, 1990, under title: L'émigration corse à Porto Rico au XIXe siècle.