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Title Island at war : Puerto Rico in the crucible of the Second World War / edited by Jorge Rodríguez Beruff and Jose L. Bolívar Fresneda
Published Jackson, MS : University Press of Mississippi, [2015]
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Description 1 online resource
Series Caribbean Studies Series
Caribbean studies series (Jackson, Miss.)
Contents 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, 1942-1946Geopolitics 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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Puerto Rico
HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century.
International relations
Politics and government
SUBJECT Puerto Rico -- Politics and government -- 1898-1952. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85108958
Puerto Rico -- Relations -- United States
United States -- Relations -- Puerto Rico
Subject Puerto Rico
United States
Form Electronic book
Author Rodríguez Beruff, Jorge, editor
Bolívar, José L., editor.
LC no. 2014042599
ISBN 9781626745674
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