Constructing A Colonial People: Puerto Rico And The United States, 1898-1932
Constructing A Colonial People: Puerto Rico And The United States, 1898-1932 by Pedro A Caban
English | January 26, 2001 | ISBN-10: 0813339030 | 282 pages | PDF | 33,7 MB
English | January 26, 2001 | ISBN-10: 0813339030 | 282 pages | PDF | 33,7 MB
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.
This book provides a new and comprehensive interpretation of how the United States attempted to transform Puerto Rico from a neglected backwater of the Spanish empire into one of its key props in establishing hegemony in the western hemisphere. The book looks at the formative three-and-one-half decades of U.S. colonial rule, when the colony’s key institutions, economic structures, and legal doctrines were transformed. Policy papers, speeches, newspaper articles, and memoirs from the period inform the study with particular detail and insight.
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