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Historia de los Partidos Políticos Puertorriqueños (1898–1956)

political parties history book set from Puerto Rico

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Source revisionAug 22, 2025
Entity authorityQ85766694 ↗
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Historia de los Partidos Políticos Puertorriqueños (1898–1956) (English: History of the Puerto Rican Political Parties (1898–1956)) is Bolívar Pagán's 1959 flagship two-volume set on Puerto Rico's political parties. It covers political parties in the years since the American invasion of 1898 through the year 1956.

Historiography

Although Pagán, a Puerto Rico senator (1933–1939) and U.S. Congressman (1939–1945), had written half a dozen other books on politics prior to this set, this set is considered the climax of his political penmanship. Critical reviewer Luis Burset states that "for its thoroughness, focus, and relevance, Bolívar Pagán's Historia de los Partidos Políticos Puertorriqueños is now mandatory reading for understanding the development of Puerto Rico's political parties... it enjoys a position of choice in the Puerto Rican historiography."

The two-volume set numbered Tomo I and Tomo II (volume I and volume II) consists of 342 and 399 pages, respectively. Volume 1 was published in 1959 and covers years 1898 to 1931. Volume II was published in 1972 and covers years 1932 to 1956.

Critical Reviews

The book was reviewed by several critics

See also

List of political parties in Puerto Rico

Politics of Puerto Rico

Political party strength in Puerto Rico

References

External links

The entire Volume I text is available for viewing at The University of Florida online resources library.

The entire Volume II text is available for viewing at The University of Florida online resources library.

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Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1898, 1956, 1959, 1933—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Historia, Partidos and Políticos can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Historia de los Partidos Políticos Puertorriqueños (1898–1956)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.