| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 298 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
The nineteenth-century roots of transnational anticolonial struggle and solidarity -- Setting up the U.S. colonial state -- Becoming the Nationalist Party -- Building Latin American solidarity with Puerto Rican independence -- Depression, repression, and militant resistance in the 1930s -- Puerto Rican nationalism, Latin American solidarity, and the 1930s: how good was the Good Neighbor policy? -- Puerto Rican nationalism in New York City in the 1930s and 1940s -- The Nationalist Party and the Cold War: 1940s-1950s -- The 1950s: armed struggle, repression, exile, and solidarity |
| Summary |
"Throughout its quest for freedom from colonial rule, the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party (PNPR) created strategy through a solidarity that moved far beyond the archipelago. The hemispheric connections between supporters of Puerto Rican independence have been obscured by larger, later liberation movements as well as the island's ultimate failure in its quest for independence, but they were nonetheless at the vanguard of the postcolonial revolutions that swept the world after the Cuban revolution. Margaret M. Power's new history of the PNPR focuses on how it built a broad movement with active networks in virtually all of Latin America, much of the Caribbean, and New York City"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-285) and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
Partido Nacionalista (P.R.) -- History
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| SUBJECT |
Partido Nacionalista (P.R.) fast (OCoLC)fst00580250 |
| Subject |
Nationalism -- Puerto Rico -- History
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Autonomy and independence movements.
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Nationalism.
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Politics and government.
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| SUBJECT |
Puerto Rico -- History -- Autonomy and independence movements
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Puerto Rico -- Politics and government -- 20th century
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| Subject |
Puerto Rico.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1469674076 |
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9781469674070 |
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