Amurallados : arquitectura y devenir social en el Viejo San Juan (1508-1898) / María de los Ángeles Castro Arroyo, fotografía y edición de imágenes José Orlando Sued.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Castro Arroyo, María de los Angeles, 1944- author.

Contributor:

Orlando Sued, José, photographer.

Language:

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Architecture--Puerto Rico--San Juan--History.

Architecture.

Architecture and society--Puerto Rico--San Juan--History.

Architecture and society.

Historic buildings--Puerto Rico--San Juan.

Historic buildings.

San Juan (P.R.)--Buildings, structures, etc.

San Juan (P.R.).

San Juan (P.R.)--History.

Physical Description:

2 volumes : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, maps, plans, portraits ; 32 cm.

Edition:

Primera edicion.

Place of Publication:

San Juan, Puerto Rico : Oficina Estatal de Conservación Histórica : Luscinia C.E, 2024.

Language Note:

In Spanish.

Summary:

Major study and extensive work that documents and contextualizes the social life of the walled city of San Juan and the multiple elements that have constituted to its urban life: human interaction, on the one hand, and the planned and built environment on the other. Ecclesiastical and military housing and buildings marked not only his transcendent aspirations, but also the fears of its population. The author María de los Ángeles Castro Arroyo is a researcher, historian, professor and official of the Universidad de Puerto Rico (UPR) in Río Piedras. In 1980 she wrote "Arquitectura en San Juan de Puerto Rico. Siglo XIX". This book is based on her doctoral thesis. At the end of 2022 she published a new revised and expanded edition, under the title "Amurallados: sociedad y arquitectura en el viejo San Juan (1509-1898)", where the renown historian presents new findings on the urban and social aspects of the city.

Contents:

Tomo I : Introducción

1. Primeras huellas de la ciudad mestiza

2. Los pilares de la fe

3. La Fortaleza de Santa Catalina

4. Los olvidados del imperio

5. El andamiaje del poder

6. La ciudad escondida

7. Las amarras del orden.

Tomo II : 8. La difícil modernidad

9. La renovación urbana

10. Crecer después de las murallas

11. Los nuevos comienzos (1800-1837)

12. Dominación con estilo (1838-1867)

13. Entre temblores, derribos y cañonazos (1868-1898).

Notes:

Includes bibliography (pages 682-964) and indexes.

ISBN:

9781944352479

1944352473

OCLC:

1437779770