Evolución y desarrollo del autonomismo puertorriqueño, siglo XIX
By: Carlos D'Alzina Guillermety.
Publisher: Universidad Politécnica de Puerto Rico
Published: 1995
Place of publication: San Juan
Language: spa
Number of pages: 339
Subjects: Constitutional history -- Puerto Rico.; Puerto Rico -- Relations -- Spain.; Spain -- Relations -- Puerto Rico.; Puerto Rico -- Politics and government -- To 1898.; Puerto Rico -- History -- Autonomy and independence movements.
Description: "Juridical study examines the shift toward autonomist position in Puerto Rico. After analyzing major legal instruments that regulated colonies' political relationship to Spain, author considers international, metropolitan, local, and even individual forces and figures, to explain why autonomy became the Spanish solution to the 'Cuban problem' in the face of US intervention"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-288).