Puerto Rico in the American century : a history since 1898 / César J. Ayala and Rafael Bernabé.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ayala, César J.

Contributor:

Bernabe, Rafael.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Puerto Rico--History--20th century.

Puerto Rico.

Physical Description:

xvi, 428 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2007]

Summary:

Offering a comprehensive overview of Puerto Rico's history and evolution since the installation of U.S. rule, Ayala and Bernabe connect the island's economic, political, cultural, and social past of residents of the island as well as the many Puerto Ricans in the diaspora. The authors discuss a wide range of topics, including literary and cultural debates and social and labor struggles that previous histories have neglected. Ayala and Bernabe argue that the inability of Puerto Rico to shake its colonial legacy reveals the limits of free-market capitalism.

Contents:

1 1898-Background and Immediate Consequences 14

2 Reshaping Puerto Rico's Economy, 1898-1934 33

3 Political and Social Struggles in a New Colonial Context, 1900-1930 52

4 Americanization and Its Discontents, 1898-1929 74

5 Economic Depression and Political Crisis: The Turbulent Thirties 95

6 Cultural Debates in an Epoch of Crisis: National Interpretations in the Thirties 117

7 Turning Point in the Forties: Rise of the Partido Popular Democratico 136

8 Birth of the Estado Libre Asociado 162

9 Transformation and Relocation: Puerto Rico's Operation Bootstrap 179

10 Politics and Culture in the Epoch of PPD Hegemony 201

11 PPD Hegemony Undermined: From Mobilization to Recession, 1960-1975 223

12 Rethinking the Past, Betting on the Future: Cultural Debates from the Sixties to the Eighties 247

13 Economic Stagnation and Political Deadlock, 1976-1992 267

14 Politics and Social Conflict in the Epoch of Neoliberalism, 1992-2004 291

15 Neonationalism, Postmodernism, and Other Debates 316.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [383]-397) and index.

ISBN:

9780807831137

0807831131

OCLC:

76864481