Women in San Juan, 1820-1868 / Félix V. Matos Rodríguez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Matos Rodríguez, Félix V., 1962-

Standardized Title:

Women and urban change in San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1820-1868

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Puerto Rico--San Juan--History.

Women.

Working class women--Puerto Rico--San Juan--Social conditions.

Working class women.

Women--Puerto Rico--San Juan--Economic conditions.

City and town life--Puerto Rico--San Juan--History.

City and town life.

History.

Economic conditions.

Social conditions.

Puerto Rico--San Juan.

Physical Description:

xi, 180 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Edition:

First Markus Wiener Publishers edition.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : M. Wiener Publishers, 2001.

Summary:

After their surrender at the Battle of Bailen, 12,000 French prisoners of war were exiled to the bleak island of Cabrera in the Mediterranean, with only the clothes on their backs. This is the meticulously researched account of their story, never before told in English. Illustrations.

Contents:

1. San Juan, Puerto Rico (1765-1868): An Overview 10

2. San Juan: Space, Population, and Urban Setting 36

3. Elite and Middle-Class Women in San Juan's Economic Life 59

4. Through the Back Door: Lower-Class Women in San Juan's Economic and Social Life 84

5. Venturing into the "Public": Women, Beneficence, and Education in Nineteenth-Century San Juan 101.

Notes:

Originally published as Women and urban change in San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1820-1868: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c1999.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [159]-176) and index.

ISBN:

1558762833

OCLC:

47018467