Puerto Rico: A National History. By Jorell Meléndez-Badillo. Princeton UP, 2024, 312 pp.

Martin Gabriel

doi:10.47060/jaaas.v6i2.232

Reviews

Vol. 6 No. 2 (2025): Versions of America: Speculative Pasts, Presents, Futures

Puerto Rico: A National History. By Jorell Meléndez-Badillo. Princeton UP, 2024, 312 pp.

Martin Gabriel^▸^▾

PDF

Submitted: February 26, 2025
Published: 2025-06-18

Abstract

Martin Gabriel reviews Jorell Meléndez-Badillo's Puerto Rico: A National History (Princeton UP, 2024).

References

Henry, Guy V. "Americanizing Porto Rico." The Independent, vol. 51, no. 2635, 1899, 1475–77.
Rigau-Pérez, José G. "Smallpox Epidemics in Puerto Rico during the Prevaccine Era (1518–1803)." Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, vol. 37, no. 4, 1982, pp. 423–38.

Keywords

Puerto Rico
history
colonialism
Caribbean
national identity

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

How to Cite

Gabriel, Martin. “Puerto Rico: A National History. By Jorell Meléndez-Badillo. Princeton UP, 2024, 312 Pp”. JAAAS: Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies, vol. 6, no. 2, June 2025, pp. 226–29, https://doi.org/10.47060/jaaas.v6i2.232.

Puerto Rico: A National History. By Jorell Meléndez-Badillo. Princeton UP, 2024, 312 pp.

Abstract

References

Most read articles by the same author(s)

Similar Articles

Similar Articles

George Washington, the Godfather of American Entrepreneurism

Trans/Intifada: The Politics and Poetics of Intersectional Resistance. By Denijal Jegić (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2019), 329pp.

Postcolonial and Transoceanic Life Writing

Staying Human in the Post-Apocalypse

Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century. Edited by Isiah Lavender III and Lisa Yaszek (Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2020), 248pp.

Commemorating Abraham Lincoln and the Transnational Way: Lincoln Monuments in Great Britain. By Liv Birte Buchmann (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2020), 311pp.