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In Search of a National Identity: Nineteeth and Early-Twentieth-Century Puerto Rico
Documenting a Puerto Rican Identity. Of all the former Spanish colonies in the Americas, Puerto Rico, the smallest island of the Greater Antilles in the Caribbean Sea, was the only territory that never gained its political independence. The years between 1800 and 1930, however, paved the way for the formation and development of its political institutions and national identity. The keys to the internal…