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• ISBN: 9780807859544 (pbk.)
• ISBN: 0807859540 (pbk.)
• Physical Description: xvi, 428 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
• Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2009.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

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

Formatted Contents Note:

1898 - Background and Immediate Consequences -- Reshaping Puerto Rico's Economy, 1898-1934 -- 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 Democr©Łtico -- Birth of the Estado Libre Asociado -- Transformation and Relocation: Puerto Rico's Operation Bootstrap -- Politics and Culture in 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.

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Puerto Rico > History > 20th century.
Puerto Rico > Politics and government > 20th century.