Bookseller Created
2025 Best Sellers
Annual membership is here!
Learn more
Send as gift
Add to Wish List
Almost ready!
In order to save audiobooks to your Wish List you must be signed in to your account.
Log in Create account
Become a member and support local bookstores
You‘ll enjoy credits that never expire, a 30% discount on additional audiobooks, and access to exclusive sales!
Explore membershipsPuerto Rico
A National History
Narrator
Tony Chiroldes
This audiobook uses AI narration.
We’re taking steps to make sure AI narration is transparent.
Learn more
Length
10 hours 27 minutes
Language
English
This audiobook narrated by Tony Chiroldes traces the multifaceted history of Puerto Rico from pre-Columbian times to today
Puerto Rico is a Spanish-speaking territory of the United States with a history shaped by conquest and resistance. For centuries, Puerto Ricans have crafted and negotiated complex ideas about nationhood. Jorell Meléndez-Badillo provides a new history of Puerto Rico that gives voice to the archipelago's people while offering a lens through which to understand the political, economic, and social challenges confronting them today.
In this masterful work of scholarship, Meléndez-Badillo sheds light on the vibrant cultures of the archipelago in the centuries before the arrival of Columbus, and captures the full sweep of Puerto Rico's turbulent history in the centuries that followed, from the first indigenous insurrection against colonial rule in 1511—led by the powerful chieftain Agüeybaná II—to the establishment of the Commonwealth in 1952. He deftly portrays the contemporary period and the intertwined though unequal histories of the archipelago and the continental United States. Puerto Rico is an engaging, sometimes personal, and consistently surprising history of colonialism, revolt, and the creation of a national identity, offering new perspectives not only on Puerto Rico and the Caribbean but on the United States and the Atlantic world more broadly.
Available in Spanish from our partners at Grupo Planeta
Jorell Meléndez-Badillo is assistant professor of Latin American and Caribbean history at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is the author of The Lettered Barriada: Workers, Archival Power, and the Politics of Knowledge in Puerto Rico. He collaborated on Debí Tirar Más Fotos, the sixth solo studio album of Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny, writing the notes for the historical slides that accompany each track of the album. Tony Chiroldes is an original Broadway cast member of the award-winning musical In the Heights. His voice work includes the video games Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and BioShock as well as hundreds of commercials in English and Spanish. His audiobooks include the Spanish edition of Barack Obama's Of Thee I Sing.
Jorell Meléndez-Badillo is assistant professor of Latin American and Caribbean history at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is the author of The Lettered Barriada: Workers, Archival Power, and the Politics of Knowledge in Puerto Rico. He collaborated on Debí Tirar Más Fotos, the sixth solo studio album of Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny, writing the notes for the historical slides that accompany each track of the album. Tony Chiroldes is an original Broadway cast member of the award-winning musical In the Heights. His voice work includes the video games Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and BioShock as well as hundreds of commercials in English and Spanish. His audiobooks include the Spanish edition of Barack Obama's Of Thee I Sing.
Booksellers also recommend...
Featured in these playlists...
Audiobook details
Author:
Jorell Meléndez-Badillo
Narrator:
Tony Chiroldes
ISBN:
9780691262925
Length:
10 hours 27 minutes
Language:
English
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Publication date:
April 2, 2024
Edition:
Unabridged
Libro.fm rank:
#711 Overall
Genre rank:
#38 in History
Start gifting
Libro.fm for Business
Start a membership, get two free audiobooks