Teresita Martínez Vergne
Biographic Data
| ID | 716810 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Teresita Martínez Vergne |
| GIVEN NAMES | Teresita Martínez |
| FAMILY NAME | Vergne |
| SIGNATURE | VERGNE T M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Macalester College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Black Society in Spanish Florida
At first glance, Colonial Challenges appears to be a volume trying to explain, from a Native point of view, what happened in North America between the 1760s and 1770s that turned British success against the French into failure against unlikely opponents—Britain's own colonists and subjects. If that were the writer's intention, he offers little that illuminates the shrouded path from success in 1763 to the penning of Thomas Jefferson's immortal wo…
Bourgeois women in the early twentieth-century Dominican national discourse
Argues that in the early 20th c. a male elite in the Dominican Republic, in formulating a national project toward modernization and economic progress, projected on upper- and middle-class women prescribed roles as subordinate to men. She argues that working-class women were totally seen as unimportant to nation building. She describes how in different writings of the time bourgeois women were depicted as incapable to contribute to the desired pro…
Imposing Decency
This book forms part of a growing trend in the historiography on Puerto Rico— away from the staid, exceptionalist discourse that even today dominates historical writings on the island and in the direction of constantly shifting conceptualizations among scholars who seek to give meaning to similar processes in the countries they study. It is pathbreaking in terms of subject matter, bold in its use of sources, and ambitious in its discussion of the…
C. L. R. James’s Caribbean
C. L. R. James's Caribbean
The allocation of liberated African labour through the Casa de Beneficencia ‐San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1859–1864
La Buena Vista, 1833-1904
New Patterns for Puerto Rico's Sugar Workers
T he nineteenth century witnessed two transformations that were to influence the development of plantation agriculture in most of the Caribbean islands possessed by the leading European powers. The abolition of slavery called for major adjustments in the relationship between ownership/management and labor force in the sugar industry. Technological advances along with a steady drop in the international price of sugar reinforced the need for the re…
Los gallos peleados
Black Society in Spanish Florida
At first glance, Colonial Challenges appears to be a volume trying to explain, from a Native point of view, what happened in North America between the 1760s and 1770s that turned British success against the French into failure against unlikely opponents—Britain's own colonists and subjects. If that were the writer's intention, he offers little that illuminates the shrouded path from success in 1763 to the penning of Thomas Jefferson's immortal wo…
The allocation of liberated African labour through the Casa de Beneficencia ‐San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1859–1864
New Patterns for Puerto Rico's Sugar Workers
T he nineteenth century witnessed two transformations that were to influence the development of plantation agriculture in most of the Caribbean islands possessed by the leading European powers. The abolition of slavery called for major adjustments in the relationship between ownership/management and labor force in the sugar industry. Technological advances along with a steady drop in the international price of sugar reinforced the need for the re…
Los gallos peleados
New Patterns for Puerto Rico's Sugar Workers
T he nineteenth century witnessed two transformations that were to influence the development of plantation agriculture in most of the Caribbean islands possessed by the leading European powers. The abolition of slavery called for major adjustments in the relationship between ownership/management and labor force in the sugar industry. Technological advances along with a steady drop in the international price of sugar reinforced the need for the re…
La Buena Vista, 1833-1904
The allocation of liberated African labour through the Casa de Beneficencia ‐San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1859–1864
C. L. R. James’s Caribbean
C. L. R. James's Caribbean
Bourgeois women in the early twentieth-century Dominican national discourse
Argues that in the early 20th c. a male elite in the Dominican Republic, in formulating a national project toward modernization and economic progress, projected on upper- and middle-class women prescribed roles as subordinate to men. She argues that working-class women were totally seen as unimportant to nation building. She describes how in different writings of the time bourgeois women were depicted as incapable to contribute to the desired pro…
Imposing Decency
This book forms part of a growing trend in the historiography on Puerto Rico— away from the staid, exceptionalist discourse that even today dominates historical writings on the island and in the direction of constantly shifting conceptualizations among scholars who seek to give meaning to similar processes in the countries they study. It is pathbreaking in terms of subject matter, bold in its use of sources, and ambitious in its discussion of the…
Black Society in Spanish Florida
At first glance, Colonial Challenges appears to be a volume trying to explain, from a Native point of view, what happened in North America between the 1760s and 1770s that turned British success against the French into failure against unlikely opponents—Britain's own colonists and subjects. If that were the writer's intention, he offers little that illuminates the shrouded path from success in 1763 to the penning of Thomas Jefferson's immortal wo…
History (5 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (4 works) · Cuban History and Society (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Biology (2 works) · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture (2 works)