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

by Pedro A Caban

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367315153
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/28/2019
Pages:	300
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

Given the recent controversial Presidential clemency for imprisoned Puerto Rican independence activists, this interpretation of the formative decades of US rule in this gateway to Latin America is especially timely. Caban (Latino politics, Rutgers U.) studies the role Puerto Rico has played in American history since the US transformed this backwater of the former Spanish empire into a hub of its regional hegemony. The author analyzes US Progressive Era expansionism, and the legacy of accommodation and resistance to US military occupation (1898-1900), which left "the new and improved colonial state" in a state of sociopolitical crisis by 1932. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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