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Constructing A Colonial People
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Constructing A Colonial People

Puerto Rico And The United States, 1898-1932

Constructing A Colonial People

Puerto Rico And The United States, 1898-1932

ByPedro A Caban
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 1999
eBook Published 19 February 2018
Pub. location New York
Imprint Routledge
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.4324/9780429501401
Pages 296 pages
eBook ISBN 9780429969959
SubjectsHumanities
KeywordsForaker Act, Puerto Rican, United States, Porto Rican, Insular Police
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Caban, P. (1999). Constructing A Colonial People. New York: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429501401
ABOUT THIS BOOK

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 Ricos 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. }Puerto Rico has been a territorial possession of the United States for over one hundred years. As a strategic insular possession and guardian of the Panama Canal, a lucrative offshore investment site for U.S. multinational corporations, and a long-standing source of labor power, Puerto Rico has had an important role in American history since 1898. This book provides a new and comprehensive interpretation of how the United States attempted to transform Puerto Rico from a neglected backwater of the Spanish empire into one of its key props in establishing hegemony in the western hemisphere. The book looks at the formative three-and-one-half decades of U.S. colonial rule, when the colonys key institutions, economic structures, and legal doctrines were transformed. Policy papers, speeches, newspaper articles, and memoirs from the period inform the study with particular detail and insight. The book also looks at the dynamics of U.S. expansionism during the Progressive Era and examines the normative and ideological constructions that were used to rationalize a campaign of territorial acquisition and colonial administration. It also demonstrates how the military and subsequent civilian regimes directed a process of institutional transformation, state building, and capitalist development. }

TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |14 pages
Introduction
ByPedro A. Cabán
View abstract
chapter 1|26 pages
U.S. Imperialism and the New Colonial Era
ByPedro A. Cabán
View abstract
chapter 2|42 pages
Military Occupation, 1898–1900: Building the Colonial State
ByPedro A. Cabán
View abstract
chapter 3|39 pages
The Foraker Act: The Politics and Economics of Colonial Legislation
ByPedro A. Cabán
View abstract
chapter 4|40 pages
The Colonial State at Work: The Executive Council and the Transformation of Puerto Rico, 1900–1917
ByPedro A. Cabán
View abstract
chapter 5|36 pages
Resistance and Accommodation
ByPedro A. Cabán
View abstract
chapter 6|37 pages
A New Beginning and the Growing Crisis of Legitimacy
ByPedro A. Cabán
View abstract
chapter 7|20 pages
The FLT, the Socialists, and the Crisis in Colonial Management
ByPedro A. Cabán
View abstract

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 Ricos 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. }Puerto Rico has been a territorial possession of the United States for over one hundred years. As a strategic insular possession and guardian of the Panama Canal, a lucrative offshore investment site for U.S. multinational corporations, and a long-standing source of labor power, Puerto Rico has had an important role in American history since 1898. This book provides a new and comprehensive interpretation of how the United States attempted to transform Puerto Rico from a neglected backwater of the Spanish empire into one of its key props in establishing hegemony in the western hemisphere. The book looks at the formative three-and-one-half decades of U.S. colonial rule, when the colonys key institutions, economic structures, and legal doctrines were transformed. Policy papers, speeches, newspaper articles, and memoirs from the period inform the study with particular detail and insight. The book also looks at the dynamics of U.S. expansionism during the Progressive Era and examines the normative and ideological constructions that were used to rationalize a campaign of territorial acquisition and colonial administration. It also demonstrates how the military and subsequent civilian regimes directed a process of institutional transformation, state building, and capitalist development. }

TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |14 pages
Introduction
ByPedro A. Cabán
View abstract
chapter 1|26 pages
U.S. Imperialism and the New Colonial Era
ByPedro A. Cabán
View abstract
chapter 2|42 pages
Military Occupation, 1898–1900: Building the Colonial State
ByPedro A. Cabán
View abstract
chapter 3|39 pages
The Foraker Act: The Politics and Economics of Colonial Legislation
ByPedro A. Cabán
View abstract
chapter 4|40 pages
The Colonial State at Work: The Executive Council and the Transformation of Puerto Rico, 1900–1917
ByPedro A. Cabán
View abstract
chapter 5|36 pages
Resistance and Accommodation
ByPedro A. Cabán
View abstract
chapter 6|37 pages
A New Beginning and the Growing Crisis of Legitimacy
ByPedro A. Cabán
View abstract
chapter 7|20 pages
The FLT, the Socialists, and the Crisis in Colonial Management
ByPedro A. Cabán
View abstract
CONTENTS
ABOUT THIS BOOK

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 Ricos 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. }Puerto Rico has been a territorial possession of the United States for over one hundred years. As a strategic insular possession and guardian of the Panama Canal, a lucrative offshore investment site for U.S. multinational corporations, and a long-standing source of labor power, Puerto Rico has had an important role in American history since 1898. This book provides a new and comprehensive interpretation of how the United States attempted to transform Puerto Rico from a neglected backwater of the Spanish empire into one of its key props in establishing hegemony in the western hemisphere. The book looks at the formative three-and-one-half decades of U.S. colonial rule, when the colonys key institutions, economic structures, and legal doctrines were transformed. Policy papers, speeches, newspaper articles, and memoirs from the period inform the study with particular detail and insight. The book also looks at the dynamics of U.S. expansionism during the Progressive Era and examines the normative and ideological constructions that were used to rationalize a campaign of territorial acquisition and colonial administration. It also demonstrates how the military and subsequent civilian regimes directed a process of institutional transformation, state building, and capitalist development. }

TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |14 pages
Introduction
ByPedro A. Cabán
View abstract
chapter 1|26 pages
U.S. Imperialism and the New Colonial Era
ByPedro A. Cabán
View abstract
chapter 2|42 pages
Military Occupation, 1898–1900: Building the Colonial State
ByPedro A. Cabán
View abstract
chapter 3|39 pages
The Foraker Act: The Politics and Economics of Colonial Legislation
ByPedro A. Cabán
View abstract
chapter 4|40 pages
The Colonial State at Work: The Executive Council and the Transformation of Puerto Rico, 1900–1917
ByPedro A. Cabán
View abstract
chapter 5|36 pages
Resistance and Accommodation
ByPedro A. Cabán
View abstract
chapter 6|37 pages
A New Beginning and the Growing Crisis of Legitimacy
ByPedro A. Cabán
View abstract
chapter 7|20 pages
The FLT, the Socialists, and the Crisis in Colonial Management
ByPedro A. Cabán
View abstract

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 Ricos 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. }Puerto Rico has been a territorial possession of the United States for over one hundred years. As a strategic insular possession and guardian of the Panama Canal, a lucrative offshore investment site for U.S. multinational corporations, and a long-standing source of labor power, Puerto Rico has had an important role in American history since 1898. This book provides a new and comprehensive interpretation of how the United States attempted to transform Puerto Rico from a neglected backwater of the Spanish empire into one of its key props in establishing hegemony in the western hemisphere. The book looks at the formative three-and-one-half decades of U.S. colonial rule, when the colonys key institutions, economic structures, and legal doctrines were transformed. Policy papers, speeches, newspaper articles, and memoirs from the period inform the study with particular detail and insight. The book also looks at the dynamics of U.S. expansionism during the Progressive Era and examines the normative and ideological constructions that were used to rationalize a campaign of territorial acquisition and colonial administration. It also demonstrates how the military and subsequent civilian regimes directed a process of institutional transformation, state building, and capitalist development. }

TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |14 pages
Introduction
ByPedro A. Cabán
View abstract
chapter 1|26 pages
U.S. Imperialism and the New Colonial Era
ByPedro A. Cabán
View abstract
chapter 2|42 pages
Military Occupation, 1898–1900: Building the Colonial State
ByPedro A. Cabán
View abstract
chapter 3|39 pages
The Foraker Act: The Politics and Economics of Colonial Legislation
ByPedro A. Cabán
View abstract
chapter 4|40 pages
The Colonial State at Work: The Executive Council and the Transformation of Puerto Rico, 1900–1917
ByPedro A. Cabán
View abstract
chapter 5|36 pages
Resistance and Accommodation
ByPedro A. Cabán
View abstract
chapter 6|37 pages
A New Beginning and the Growing Crisis of Legitimacy
ByPedro A. Cabán
View abstract
chapter 7|20 pages
The FLT, the Socialists, and the Crisis in Colonial Management
ByPedro A. Cabán
View abstract
ABOUT THIS BOOK
ABOUT THIS BOOK

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 Ricos 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. }Puerto Rico has been a territorial possession of the United States for over one hundred years. As a strategic insular possession and guardian of the Panama Canal, a lucrative offshore investment site for U.S. multinational corporations, and a long-standing source of labor power, Puerto Rico has had an important role in American history since 1898. This book provides a new and comprehensive interpretation of how the United States attempted to transform Puerto Rico from a neglected backwater of the Spanish empire into one of its key props in establishing hegemony in the western hemisphere. The book looks at the formative three-and-one-half decades of U.S. colonial rule, when the colonys key institutions, economic structures, and legal doctrines were transformed. Policy papers, speeches, newspaper articles, and memoirs from the period inform the study with particular detail and insight. The book also looks at the dynamics of U.S. expansionism during the Progressive Era and examines the normative and ideological constructions that were used to rationalize a campaign of territorial acquisition and colonial administration. It also demonstrates how the military and subsequent civilian regimes directed a process of institutional transformation, state building, and capitalist development. }

TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |14 pages
Introduction
ByPedro A. Cabán
View abstract
chapter 1|26 pages
U.S. Imperialism and the New Colonial Era
ByPedro A. Cabán
View abstract
chapter 2|42 pages
Military Occupation, 1898–1900: Building the Colonial State
ByPedro A. Cabán
View abstract
chapter 3|39 pages
The Foraker Act: The Politics and Economics of Colonial Legislation
ByPedro A. Cabán
View abstract
chapter 4|40 pages
The Colonial State at Work: The Executive Council and the Transformation of Puerto Rico, 1900–1917
ByPedro A. Cabán
View abstract
chapter 5|36 pages
Resistance and Accommodation
ByPedro A. Cabán
View abstract
chapter 6|37 pages
A New Beginning and the Growing Crisis of Legitimacy
ByPedro A. Cabán
View abstract
chapter 7|20 pages
The FLT, the Socialists, and the Crisis in Colonial Management
ByPedro A. Cabán
View abstract

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 Ricos 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. }Puerto Rico has been a territorial possession of the United States for over one hundred years. As a strategic insular possession and guardian of the Panama Canal, a lucrative offshore investment site for U.S. multinational corporations, and a long-standing source of labor power, Puerto Rico has had an important role in American history since 1898. This book provides a new and comprehensive interpretation of how the United States attempted to transform Puerto Rico from a neglected backwater of the Spanish empire into one of its key props in establishing hegemony in the western hemisphere. The book looks at the formative three-and-one-half decades of U.S. colonial rule, when the colonys key institutions, economic structures, and legal doctrines were transformed. Policy papers, speeches, newspaper articles, and memoirs from the period inform the study with particular detail and insight. The book also looks at the dynamics of U.S. expansionism during the Progressive Era and examines the normative and ideological constructions that were used to rationalize a campaign of territorial acquisition and colonial administration. It also demonstrates how the military and subsequent civilian regimes directed a process of institutional transformation, state building, and capitalist development. }

TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |14 pages
Introduction
ByPedro A. Cabán
View abstract
chapter 1|26 pages
U.S. Imperialism and the New Colonial Era
ByPedro A. Cabán
View abstract
chapter 2|42 pages
Military Occupation, 1898–1900: Building the Colonial State
ByPedro A. Cabán
View abstract
chapter 3|39 pages
The Foraker Act: The Politics and Economics of Colonial Legislation
ByPedro A. Cabán
View abstract
chapter 4|40 pages
The Colonial State at Work: The Executive Council and the Transformation of Puerto Rico, 1900–1917
ByPedro A. Cabán
View abstract
chapter 5|36 pages
Resistance and Accommodation
ByPedro A. Cabán
View abstract
chapter 6|37 pages
A New Beginning and the Growing Crisis of Legitimacy
ByPedro A. Cabán
View abstract
chapter 7|20 pages
The FLT, the Socialists, and the Crisis in Colonial Management
ByPedro A. Cabán
View abstract
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