Island at war : Puerto Rico in the crucible of the Second World War /
Provides a collection of essays examining the role of Puerto Rico and the Caribbean in World War II and its aftermath.
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| Language: | English |
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Jackson :
University of Mississippi Press,
[2015]
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| Series: | Caribbean studies series (Jackson, Miss.)
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Table of Contents:
- Rediscovering Puerto Rico and the Caribbean: US strategic debate and war planning on the eve of the Second World War / Jorge Rodríguez Beruff
- Puerto Rico: headquarters of the Caribbean Sea Frontier, 1940-1945 / Fitzroy André Baptiste
- War and political transition in Puerto Rico, 1939-1940 / Jorge Rodríguez Beruff
- The wartime quartet: Muñoz Marín, Tugwell, Ickes, and FDR / Michael Janeway
- The war economy of Puerto Rico, 1939-1945 / José L. Bolívar Fresneda
- The German blockade of the Caribbean in 1942 and its effects in Puerto Rico / Ligia T. Domenech
- Vieques: the impact of the Second World War / César J. Ayala Casás and José L. Bolívar Fresneda
- The Anglo-American Caribbean Commission: a socioeconomic strategy designed for military security, 1942-1946 / Mayra Rosario Urrutia
- Geopolitics and telecommunications policy in Puerto Rico: ITT and the Porto Rico Telephone Company, 1942-1948 / Luis Rosario Albert
- What did you do in the war, Daddy? The story of a Puerto Rican in the Second World War and Korea: Captain Harry Chabrán Acevedo, 1925-1986 / Rafael Chabrán.
