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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463603303321

Titolo

Island at war : Puerto Rico in the crucible of the Second World War / / edited by Jorge Rodríguez Beruff and José L. Bolívar Fresneda

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Jackson, Mississippi : , : The University Press of Mississippi, , 2015

©2015

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (295 p.)

Collana

Caribbean Studies Series

Disciplina

940.53/7295

Soggetti

World War, 1939-1945 - Puerto Rico

Electronic books.

Puerto Rico Politics and government 1898-1952

Puerto Rico Relations United States

United States Relations Puerto Rico

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Rediscovering Puerto Rico and the Caribbean: US Strategic Debate and War Planning on the Eve of the Second World War""; ""Puerto Rico: Headquarters of the Caribbean Sea Frontier, 1940-1945""; ""War and Political Transition in Puerto Rico, 1939-1940""; ""The Wartime Quartet: Munoz Maran, Tugwell, Ickes, and FDR""; ""The War Economy of Puerto Rico, 1939-1945""; ""The German Blockade of the Caribbean in 1942 and Its Effects in Puerto Rico""; ""Vieques: The Impact of the Second World War""

""The Anglo-American Caribbean Commission: A Socioeconomic Strategy Designed for Military Security, 1942-1946""""Geopolitics and Telecommunications Policy in Puerto Rico: ITT and the Porto Rico Telephone Company, 1942-1948""; ""What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? The Story of a Puerto Rican in the Second World War and Korea: Captain Harry Chabrin Acevedo, 1925-1986""; ""Notes on Contributors""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""



Sommario/riassunto

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. 'Island at War' brings together outstanding new research on Puerto Rico and makes it accessible in English.