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Constructing A Colonial People: Puerto Rico And The United States, 1898-1932 de Pedro A. Caban

Constructing A Colonial People: Puerto Rico And The United States, 1898-1932

Autor Pedro A. Caban
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 28 aug 2019
Puerto Rico has been a territorial possession of the United States for over one hundred years. As a strategic insular possession and guardian of the Panama Canal, a lucrative offshore investment site for U.S. multinational corporations, and a long-standing source of labor power, Puerto Rico has had an important role in American history since 1898.T
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780367315153
ISBN-10: 0367315157
Pagini: 300
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Introduction -- U.S. Imperialism and the New Colonial Era -- Military Occupation, 1898-1900: Building the Colonial State -- The Foraker Act: The Politics and Economics of Colonial Legislation -- The Colonial State at Work: The Executive Council and the Transformation of Puerto Rico, 1900-1917 -- Resistance and Accommodation -- A New Beginning and the Growing Crisis of Legitimacy -- The FLT, the Socialists, and the Crisis in Colonial Management

Notă biografică

Pedro A. Caban teaches courses on the political economy of U.S.-Caribbean relations and Latino politics Rutgers University.

Descriere

This book focuses on formative three-and-one-half decades (1898–1932) of U.S. colonial rule and provides a comprehensive interpretation of how the U.S. attempted to transform Puerto Rico from Spanish empire into one of its key props in establishing hegemony in the western hemisphere.