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The United States and the Development of the Puerto Rican Status Question, 1936-1968

Name: The United States and the Development of the Puerto Rican Status Question, 1936-1968
Author: Surendra Bhana

Surendra Bhana,

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The United States and the Development of the Puerto Rican Status Question, 1936-1968

Surendra Bhana,

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This study traces the evolution of political status in Puerto Rico from 1936 to 1968, with special emphasis on the events that led to the creation of the Commonwealth in 1952. No other work published in English has dealt with the Puerto Rican status question in such detail.The central problem in the status debate has been: how to strike a happy balance between Puerto Rico’s economic needs, which could be filled through uninterrupted association with the United States, and the cultural divergence between the mainland and the island. Bringing together new and significant information drawn from government records and personal papers of U.S. officials, this book will be of interest to all serious students of Puerto Rican affairs, as well as to U.S. and Puerto Rican government and political leaders.

Open access edition funded by the National Endowment for Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program.

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Publisher

University Press of Kansas

Year

2023

ISBN

9780700630721

Topic

History

Subtopic

North American History

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History

Front Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Contents
Kansas Open Books Foreword
Introduction: Setting the Scene
Chapter One: Politics in Puerto Rico and the Tydings Bill of 1936
Chapter Two: The Organization and Triumph of the Partido Popular Democrático
Chapter Three: Delayed New Deal under Muñoz Marín and Governor Tugwell
Chapter Four: An Attempt to End “Humiliating Suspense”: The Elective Governor Bill of 1943
Chapter Five: Muñoz Marín’s Shift from Independence to Autonomy, 1944-1946
Chapter Six: Self-Government “Little by Little”: The Appointment of Governor Piñero, and the Elective Governor Act of 1947
Chapter Seven: “Polititiation Mutation”: Public Law 600, July, 1950
Chapter Eight: Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, July, 1952
Chapter Nine: The Commonwealth, 1952-1968
Chapter Ten: “Operation Bootstrap”: The Economic Dimensions of the Commonwealth Status
Chapter Eleven: The Status Debate Continues
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Back Cover