Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico

Author: Gordon K. Lewis

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 1963

Total Pages: 643

ISBN-13: 0853453233

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"Since its first publication over forty years ago Puerto Rico: Freedom and Power in the Caribbean by Gordon K. Lewis has established itself, and even today, remains the definitive book on that Caribbean island. Lewis treats the subject historically and descriptively; on the one hand, it is an account of Puerto Rico as a colony, first under Spain and after 1898, under the United States. On the other hand, it is a systematic analysis of contemporary Puerto Rican life, including its politics, economic organisation and socio-political make-up, which is as relevant for this new edition as it was forty years ago. The book is also an in-depth attempt to show the political, social, cultural and even the psychological dimensions of American imperialism, rather than a mere case study of US Federalism or as a so-called 'showcase of democracy'."--BOOK JACKET.

Modern Colonization by Medical Intervention
Modern Colonization by Medical Intervention

Author: Nicole Trujillo-Pagan

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2013-09-12

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9004243712

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Modern Colonization by Medical Intervention adds to our understanding of the political and economic transformations establishing colonial modernity in Puerto Rico. By focusing on influential physicians’ clinical work and their access to a remote and inaccessible rural population, this volume details how rural areas suffered the ravages of social dislocation, unemployment and hunger. The colonial administration’s hookworm campaign involved many Puerto Rican physicians in complex struggles with other elites, rural peasants and U.S. colonial administrators for political legitimacy. Puerto Rican physicians did not gain the professional autonomy their counterparts in the United States enjoyed. Instead, they became centrally implicated in the struggle between labor and capital enforcing the island’s subordination to a colonial modernity and the development of capitalism on the island.

Hearings
Hearings

Author: United States. Ad Hoc Advisory Group on the Presidential Vote for Puerto Rico

Publisher:

Published: 1971

Total Pages: 720

ISBN-13:

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