Description |
1 online resource (xv, 275 pages) : illustrations |
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Studies in legal history |
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Studies in legal history.
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Contents |
1898: "The Constitutional Lion in the Path" -- The Constitution and the New U.S. Expansion: Debating the Status of the Islands -- "We Are Naturally Americans": Federico Degetau and Santiago Iglesias Pursue Citizenship -- "American Aliens": Isabel Gonzalez, Domingo Collazo, Federico Degetau, and the Supreme Court, 1902-1905 -- Reconstructing Puerto Rico, 1904-1909 -- The Jones Act and the Long Path to Collective Naturalization |
Summary |
"Almost Citizens lays out the tragic story of how the United States denied Puerto Ricans full citizenship following annexation of the island in 1898. As America became an overseas empire, a handful of remarkable Puerto Ricans debated with US legislators, presidents, judges, and others over who was a citizen and what citizenship meant. This struggle caused a fundamental shift in constitution law: away from the post-Civil War regime of citizenship, rights, and statehood and toward doctrines that accommodated racist imperial governance. Erman's gripping account shows how, in the wake of the Spanish-American War, administrators, lawmakers, and presidents together with judges deployed creativity and ambiguity to transform constitutional meaning for a quarter of a century. The result is a history in which the United States and Latin America, Reconstruction and empire, and law and bureaucracy intertwine"-- Provided by publisher |
Notes |
Based on the author's thesis (doctoral - University of Michigan, 2010), issued under title: Puerto Rico and the Promise of United States Citizenship : Struggles around Status in a New Empire, 1898-1917 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 162-265) and index |
Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed January 11, 2019) |
Subject |
Citizenship -- United States
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Puerto Ricans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States
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HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century.
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LAW -- Constitutional.
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LAW -- Public.
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International law
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Citizenship
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Politics and government
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Puerto Ricans -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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SUBJECT |
Puerto Rico -- International status
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Puerto Rico -- Politics and government -- 1898-1952. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85108958
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Subject |
Puerto Rico
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United States
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781108246453 |
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1108246451 |
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9781108233866 |
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1108233864 |
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