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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. Recently, a new generation of scholars has been compiling interdisciplinary research with fresh insights about the profound wartime changes, which in turn generated conditions for the rapid economic, social, and political development of postwar Puerto Rico. The island’s subsequent transformation cannot be adequately grasped without tracing its roots to the war years.

Island at War brings together outstanding new research on Puerto Rico and makes it accessible in English. It covers ten distinct topics written by nine distinguished scholars from the Caribbean and beyond. Contributors include experts in the fields of history, political science, sociology, literature, journalism, communications, and engineering.

Topics include US strategic debate and war planning for the Caribbean on the eve of World War II, Puerto Rico as the headquarters of the Caribbean Sea frontier, war and political transition in Puerto Rico, the war economy of Puerto Rico, the German blockade of the Caribbean in 1942, and the story of a Puerto Rican officer in the Second World War and Korea. With these essays and others, Island at War represents the cutting edge of scholarship on the role of Puerto Rico and the Caribbean in World War II and its aftermath.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright, Dedication
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. vii-viii
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. ix-x
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  1. Introduction
  2. pp. xi-2
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  1. Rediscovering Puerto Rico and the Caribbean: US Strategic Debate and War Planning on the Eve of the Second World War
  2. Jorge Rodríguez Beruff
  3. pp. 3-28
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  1. Puerto Rico: Headquarters of the Caribbean Sea Frontier, 1940–1945
  2. Fitzroy André Baptiste
  3. pp. 29-60
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  1. War and Political Transition in Puerto Rico, 1939–1940
  2. Jorge Rodríguez Beruff
  3. pp. 61-81
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  1. The Wartime Quartet: Muñoz Marín, Tugwell, Ickes, and FDR
  2. Michael Janeway
  3. pp. 82-110
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  1. The War Economy of Puerto Rico, 1939–1945
  2. José L. Bolívar Fresneda
  3. pp. 111-138
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  1. The German Blockade of the Caribbean in 1942 and Its Effects in Puerto Rico
  2. Ligia T. Domenech
  3. pp. 139-168
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  1. Vieques: The Impact of the Second World War
  2. César J. Ayala Casás and José L. Bolívar Fresneda
  3. pp. 169-187
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  1. The Anglo-American Caribbean Commission: A Socioeconomic Strategy Designed for Military Security, 1942–1946
  2. Mayra Rosario Urrutia
  3. pp. 188-217
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  1. Geopolitics and Telecommunications Policy in Puerto Rico: ITT and the Porto Rico Telephone Company, 1942–1948
  2. Luis Rosario Albert
  3. pp. 218-244
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  1. What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? The Story of a Puerto Rican in the Second World War and Korea: Captain Harry Chabrán Acevedo, 1925–1986
  2. Rafael Chabrán
  3. pp. 245-260
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  1. Notes on Contributors
  2. pp. 261-264
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 265-272
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