Название: Island at War: Puerto Rico in the Crucible of the Second World War
Автор: Jorge Rodriguez Beruff, Jose L. Bolivar Fresneda
Издательство: University Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1628461640
Год: 2015
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 296
Для сайта: LitMy
Размер: 5,9 МБ
Язык: Английский
Despite Puerto Rico being the hub of the United States' naval response to the German blockade of the Caribbean, there is very little published scholarship on the island's heavy involvement in the global conflict of World War II. Recently, a new generation of scholars has been compiling interdisciplinary research with fresh insights about the profound wartime changes, which in turn generated conditions for the rapid economic, social, and political development of postwar Puerto Rico. The island's subsequent transformation cannot be adequately grasped without tracing its roots to the war years.
Island at War brings together outstanding new research on Puerto Rico and makes it accessible in English. It covers ten distinct topics written by nine distinguished scholars from the Caribbean and beyond. Contributors include experts in the fields of history, political science, sociology, literature, journalism, communications, and engineering.