"Paperback edition and updated version of previous work of same title (1973). Includes excerpts from writings of historians, anthropologists, journalists, essayists, poets, politicians, bureaucrats, and others, providing a chronological account of the island's five centuries of colonial domination. This version includes a few newspaper articles from the early 1990s by Kal Wagenheim"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/