Description |
255 pages ; 23 cm |
Note |
"All of the essays in this collection have been edited since their first appearance in a special issue of Radical America Vol. 23 No. 1"--Title page verso. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Summary |
"Comprehensive, inter-disciplinary work examines social, political, and economic life in Puerto Rico in the context of the island's political and geopolitical milieu"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57. http://www.loc.gov/hlas |
Contents |
Redefining Puerto Rico's political status / Pedro Cabán -- Colonialism, citizenship, and contemporary statehood / Edgardo Meléndez -- U.S. military installations in Puerto Rico : controlling the Caribbean / Humberto García Muñiz -- The national question in Puerto Rico / Juan Manuel Carrión -- Politics and economic reforms in post-war Puerto Rico / Edwin Meléndez -- Export-oriented industrialization and the demands for female labor : Puerto Rican women in the manufacturing sector, 1952-1980 / Palmira N. Ríos -- Puerto Rico's new role in the Caribbean : the high-finance maquiladora strategy / James L. Dietz and Emilio Pantojas-García -- The rescate movement : an alternative way of doing politics / Liliana Cotto -- Puerto Rican feminism at a crossroad : challenges at the turn of the century / Margarita Mergal -- The Puerto Rican labor movement in the 1990s / Carlos Alá Santiago-Rivera -- A community-based approach to educational reform in Puerto Rico / Ana Maria García Blanco and José Javier Colón Morera -- A divided nation : the Puerto Rican diaspora in the United States and the proposed referendum / Angelo Falcón -- Migrants, citizenship, and social pacts / Frank Bonilla -- U.S. solidarity with Puerto Rico : Rockwell Ken, 1937 / Carlos Rodríguez Fraticelli -- The struggle for independence : the long march to the twenty-first century / Wilfredo Mattos Cintrón. |
Subject |
Puerto Rico -- Politics and government -- 1952-1998.
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Puerto Rico -- Economic conditions -- 1952-
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Social movements -- Puerto Rico -- History -- 20th century.
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Nationalism -- Puerto Rico -- History -- 20th century.
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Economic history. (OCoLC)fst00901974
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Nationalism. (OCoLC)fst01033832
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Politics and government (OCoLC)fst01919741
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Social movements. (OCoLC)fst01122657
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Puerto Rico. (OCoLC)fst01205432
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Politik. (DE-588)4046514-7
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Puerto Rico. (DE-588)4076429-1
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Politik.
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Aufsatzsammlung.
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Puerto Rico.
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Chronological Term |
Since 1900
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Genre/Form |
Aufsatzsammlung.
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Added Author |
Meléndez, Edwin.
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Meléndez, Edgardo.
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ISBN |
0896084426 |
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9780896084421 |
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0896084418 |
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9780896084414 |
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