{"product_id":"buena-vista-guillermo-baralt-9780807848012","title":"Buena Vista: Life and Work on a Puerto Rican Hacienda, 1833-1904","description":"This book traces the history of Buena Vista, an estate located in the southern foothills of Puerto Rico's central mountain range. Now a popular living history museum, Buena Vista flourished in the nineteenth century--first as a farm that furnished food for the city of Ponce and surrounding plantations, later as a producer of corn and cornmeal ground at the estate's water-powered mill, and finally as a coffee plantation.\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on an impressive range of primary sources, Guillermo Baralt portrays the estate's history as a series of overlapping changes: from slavery to salaried labor, from primitive processing techniques to the latest in mill technology, from Spanish rule to American control, and from hard-scrabble country life to life as part of the world marketplace. Richly illustrated and written in a lively narrative style, \u003ci\u003eBuena Vista\u003c\/i\u003e paints a compelling portrait of an era, an island, a family, and an estate, bringing a period in Caribbean history to vivid life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Guillermo Baralt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0807848018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807848012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of North Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/21\/1999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.16lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.95h x 7.99w x 0.63d","brand":"Guillermo Baralt","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926309241087,"sku":"9780807848012","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_457ebfa9-5611-4eb5-b006-2b8bc5b0beb3.jpg?v=1681082352","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/buena-vista-guillermo-baralt-9780807848012","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}