1st Edition
Constructing A Colonial People Puerto Rico And The United States, 1898-1932
By Pedro A Caban
Copyright 1999
296 Pages
by
Routledge
300 Pages
by
Routledge
296 Pages
by
Routledge
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Constructing Colonial People 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... Read more
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
Biography
Pedro A Caban
