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Constructing a Colonial People - Puerto Rico and the United States, 1898-1932 (Paperback)
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Constructing a Colonial People - Puerto Rico and the United States, 1898-1932 (Paperback)
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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. The book also
looks at the dynamics of U.S. expansionism during the Progressive
Era and examines the normative and ideological constructions that
were used to rationalize a campaign of territorial acquisition and
colonial administration. It also demonstrates how the military and
subsequent civilian regimes directed a process of institutional
transformation, state building, and capitalist development.
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