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Author Franqui-Rivera, Harry, author

Title Soldiers of the nation : military service and modern Puerto Rico, 1868-1952 / Harry Franqui-Rivera
Published Lincoln, Nebraska : University of Nebraska Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource (xxix, 308 pages) : illustrations
Series Studies in war, society and the military
Studies in war, society, and the military.
Contents Birth of a nation: a labor of thirty years, 1868-1898 -- Puerto Rican a la Americana: a hearts and minds campaign, 1898-1914 -- A new day has dawned: World War I and mobilization of the peasant -- War against the Yankees!: prelude to the battle over modern Puerto Rico -- Education, industrialization, and decolonization: the battlefields of World War II -- Fighting for the "nation"?: war at home and abroad
Summary "An exploration of the military and political mobilization of popular sectors of Puerto Rican society as the island transitioned from Spanish to U.S. imperial rule."--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-294) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Soldiers -- Puerto Rico -- History
HISTORY -- Military -- Other.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science.
HISTORY -- Modern -- General.
Military relations
Soldiers
SUBJECT Puerto Rico -- Military relations -- United States
United States -- Military relations -- Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico -- History -- 1898-1952. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85108952
Puerto Rico -- History, Military
Subject Puerto Rico
United States
Genre/Form History
Military history
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2017052571
ISBN 9781496205469
1496205464
Other Titles Military service and modern Puerto Rico, 1868-1952