Published soon after the island passed to the United States, this history begins with Columbus’s landing in 1493 and Ponce de León’s conquest, the distribution of the Taíno among Spanish settlers and their rebellion, and goes on through laws and ordinances, the moving of the capital, raids, calamities and the life of the colony to 1898.
Among the first English-language histories of the island, still useful for its account of the early Spanish period. Download the free EPUB.