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Article: Women and Urban Change in San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1820-1868.(Review)
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- Journal of Social History
- Article date:
- June 22, 2001
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Women and Urban Change in San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1820-1868. By Felix V. Matos Rodriguez (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1999. xi plus 180pp.).
Carefully researched, informative, and pleasant to read, this book deals with women's participation in a specific urban context, that of a colonial, slave society in a military and commercial urban center that remained under Spanish rule throughout most of the nineteenth century. We learn much about San Juan's gradual urbanization process during a period of commercial and financial trouble, when sugar prices were declining and social tensions mounting. By the 1840s, San Juan had fallen behind other sugar growing ...
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