The history of Puerto Rico
Subtitle: from the Spanish discovery to the American occupation
By: by R.A. Van Middeldyk, edited by Martin G. Brumbaugh
Series: The expansion of the republic series; "We the People" Puerto Rican Series; Expansion of the republic series
Publisher: Fundación Puertorriqueña de las Humanidades; Academia Puertorriqueña de la Historia...
Published: 2005
Place of publication: San Juan P.R
Language: eng; spa
Number of pages: 318
Subjects: History
Description: Van Middledyk's work was the first major historical study of Puerto Rico in English. Van Middledyk advanced Puerto Rican historiography by building on the works of Brau, Coll y Toste, and Acosta, and by consulting early Spanish chronicles. A librarian at the Free Public Library of San Juan, Van Middledyk possessed knowledge of and access to considerable primary source material. His history is sympathetic to the Indians and highly critical of Spanish colonial administration. Coming in the wake of American military occupation, the book sought to explain and justify control of the island by the United States.
Notes: Reprinted in facsimile by La Fundacion Puertorriqueña de las Humanidades, Academia Puertorriqueña de la Historia ... originally published in 1903 by D. Appleton and Co., New York.

Bibliography: p. 311-312.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Historical; title: pt. 2. The people and their institutions.