Capitalism in Colonial Puerto Rico: Central San Vicente in the Late Nineteenth Century. By Teresita Martínez-Vergne. [University of Florida Social Sciences Monograph, No. 78.] (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1992. Pp. xiv, 189. Plates. Figures. Tables. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. $27.95.)

1994 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-128
Author(s):  
José M. García Leduc
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
University Of Florida ◽  
Late Nineteenth

Postcolonial Social Sciences of Nineteenth-Century Spanish America

2020 ◽  
pp. 155-172
Author(s):  
Lina del Castillo
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Spanish America ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Spanish American ◽  
New Granada ◽  
Land Surveying ◽  
Colonial Legacies ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
New Race

During the first half of the nineteenth century, Spanish American intellectuals believed science could diagnose, treat, and excise an array of “colonial legacies” left in the wake of Spanish monarchical rule. Drawing on New Granada as a case in point, this chapter considers two revealing examples of how Spanish American contributions to emerging social sciences challenged prevailing European and North Atlantic ideas about race well before the late nineteenth century adoption and adaptation of eugenics. The first example emerges from an 1830s land-surveying catechism by noted New Granadan educator and publicist, Lorenzo María Lleras. The catechism sought to ensure equitable land surveys of indigenous communal land holding. The second example spotlights José María Samper’s mid-century invention of comparative political sociology. Spanish American intellectuals like Lleras and Samper ultimately believed that the deployment of sciences in society would produce a new “race” of democratic republicans.

Abolition, Race, and the Politics of Gratitude in Late Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico

2013 ◽  
Vol 93 (4) ◽  
pp. 621-657 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ileana M. Rodríguez-Silva
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Social Order ◽  
The Political ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
The Us ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Political Project ◽  
Southern City ◽  
Imperial State

Abstract This essay investigates the political workings of gratitude in Puerto Rico in the postabolition decades in order to uncover how these practices of benevolence, which obscure the violence of everyday marginalization, became key in liberal political forms as a means of rearticulating white superiority and patriarchal authority. The article analyzes the practice of gratitude that liberal elites demanded from former slaves after emancipation as well as the appropriation of and challenges to such practices by laborers. The dynamics explored here appear in a set of performances in newspaper writings and street demonstrations commemorating abolition from the 1870s to the 1890s in the southern city of Ponce, Puerto Rico. The politics of gratitude refers to the dynamics through which many came to see abolition as an effort to modernize Puerto Rico, an endeavor for which everyone should be morally indebted to abolitionists and their successors. The politics of gratitude thus provided the ideological structures through which liberal reformists could preserve a racialized and patriarchal social order in the absence of slavery. In the process, liberals also constituted themselves as the only intermediaries between popular subjects and the imperial state. Moral indebtedness was one racialized means by which various constituencies sought to craft or accommodate (in the case of authorities) a more inclusive political project that did not contradict the basis of imperial rule—even though it did alter its foundation, if only momentarily, before the US takeover of the island in 1898.

scholarly journals Illustrator Extraordinaire: Bechtel Fellow Enthralled by Arthur Rackham

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Bridgid Mangan
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Children's Literature ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
University Of Florida ◽  
Flickering Light ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The University

These are the words of a young C. S. Lewis, who was deeply impressed by the “tender, flickering light of imagination”2 conveyed in the watercolor images by Rackham, the late nineteenth-century artist. Upon entering the Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature at the University of Florida, I felt the same anticipation and excitement. There was a shelf of first-edition books, some signed by Rackham himself, awaiting my perusal. As a recipient of the 2016 Louise Seaman Bechtel Fellowship, I had been awarded an exceptional opportunity to explore the works of one of the most admired and influential illustrators of all time.

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