Ayala, César J.

Puerto Rico in the American century : a history since 1898 / César J. Ayala and Rafael Bernabé. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2007. - xvi, 428 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

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

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 Democrâatico -- 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.

9780807831137 (cloth : alk. paper) 0807831131 (cloth : alk. paper)

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Puerto Rico--History--20th century.
Puerto Rico--Politics and government--20th century.
Puerto Rico--Historia.
Puerto Rico--Política y gobierno.

117 F 1975 / A973p 2007

972.9505/2