Puerto Rico : freedom and power in the Caribbean / Gordon K. Lewis.

By:

Lewis, Gordon K [author.]

Publication details: New York : [Monthly Review Press], 1963.Description: xii, 626 pages ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0853453233
9780853453239

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

History.

Additional physical formats: Puerto Rico.DDC classification:

917.295, Lew

LOC classification:

F1958 .L4

Other classification:

15.85
MS 1240

Contents:

The nature of the problem -- pt. I. The Past: The Caribbean background ; The Spanish legacy ; The rise of the American Mediterranean ; The imperialism of neglect: 1898-1932 ; The politics of survival: 1898-1932 ; The New Deal experiment ; 1940 and after: the populares -- pt. II. The Present: Operation Bootstrap: the advent of industrialization ; The problem of economic dependency ; The role of labor ; Class and community ; Family, religion, and color ; The debate of "Americanization" ; The machinery of government: executive, administrative, and judicial ; The machinery of government: the legislature ; Parties and politics ; The problem of social status ; The growth of education ; The character of public opinion -- pt III. The Future: Puerto Rico and the Caribbean ; Puerto Rico and the Americas ; Puerto Rico and the world society.

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Summary: Puerto Rico has been held up by official United States sources as a "showcase of democracy" and a model of American responsibilities in the Western Hemisphere. This book separates face and myth and portrays in scholarly detail the realities of modern Puerto Rico--its combination of real economic progress and socio-political retardation, its cultural distress and disorganization arising out of American penetration, its continuing neocolonial character as an American tropical dependency, the humiliating status of Puerto Ricans as second-class American citizens, the need for independence and socialism as the twin answers to the Puerto Rican tragedy.--From book jacket.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	National Library of Jamaica	Daphne Douglas Reading Room	917.295 Lew (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		1000000028179
Books	OCLC Data	Daphne Douglas Reading Room		Available		0000000001020

Includes index.

Title: Freedom and power in the Caribbean.

Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. 575-613).

Puerto Rico has been held up by official United States sources as a "showcase of democracy" and a model of American responsibilities in the Western Hemisphere. This book separates face and myth and portrays in scholarly detail the realities of modern Puerto Rico--its combination of real economic progress and socio-political retardation, its cultural distress and disorganization arising out of American penetration, its continuing neocolonial character as an American tropical dependency, the humiliating status of Puerto Ricans as second-class American citizens, the need for independence and socialism as the twin answers to the Puerto Rican tragedy.--From book jacket.