Constructing A Colonial People: Puerto Rico

Upon acquiring Puerto Rico from Spain in 1898, the United States moved quickly to convert this island nation into a strategic military base and lucrative investment site for American business, from which it could assert its hegemeony in the Caribbean. The Americanization of Puerto Rico's people and its political and legal institutions was pivotal to U.S. expansionism in the region. But the "Americanization" process was fraught with contradictions, provoking a nationalist uprising and an independence movement, and generating deep and enduring political divisions among Puerto Ricans.

Pedro A. Caban teaches courses on the political economy of U.S.-Caribbean relations and Latino politics Rutgers University.

Acronyms	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
U.S. Imperialism and the New Colonial Era	p. 15
Note	p. 40
Military Occupation, 1898-1900: Building the Colonial State	p. 41
Note	p. 82
The Foraker Act: the Politics and Economics of Colonial Legislation	p. 83
Notes	p. 121
The Colonial State at Work: the Executive Council and the Transformation of Puerto Rico, 1900-1917	p. 122
Note	p. 161
Resistance and Accommodation	p. 162
A New Beginning and the Growing Crisis of Legitimacy	p. 198
Notes	p. 233
The Flt, the Socialists, and the Crisis in Colonial Management	p. 235
References	p. 255
Index	p. 273
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Constructing A Colonial People: Puerto Rico And The United States, 1898-1932

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