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Puerto Rico in the American century : a history since 1898 /

Offering a comprehensive overview of Puerto Rico's history and evolution since the installation of U.S. rule, this book connects the island's economic, political, cultural, and social past. It explores Puerto Ricans in the diaspora as well as the island residents, who experience an unusual...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Ayala, César J. (Autor), Bernabe, Rafael (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2007]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1898 : background and immediate consequences
  • Reshaping Puerto Rico's economy
  • Political and social struggles in a new colonial context, 1900-1930
  • Americanization and its discontents, 1898-1929
  • Economic depression and political crisis : the turbulent thirties
  • Cultural debates in an epoch of crisis : national interpretations in the thirties
  • Turning point in the forties : rise of the Partido Popular Democrático
  • Birth of the Estado Libre Asociado
  • Transformation and relocation : Puerto Rico's Operation Bootstrap
  • Politics and culture of the epoch of PPD hegemony
  • PPD hegemony undermined : from mobilization to recession, 1960-1975
  • Rethinking the past, betting on the future : cultural debates from the sixties to the eighties
  • Economic stagnation and political deadlock, 1976-1992
  • Politics and social conflict in the epoch of neoliberalism, 1992-2004
  • Neonationalism, postmodernism, and other debates.