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The United States and the Development of the Puerto Rican Status Question, 1936-1968

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Surendra Bhana
2023
Published by: University Press of Kansas
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This study traces the evolution of political status in Puerto Rico from 1936 to 1968, with special emphasis on the events that led to the creation of the Commonwealth in 1952. No other work published in English has dealt with the Puerto Rican status question in such detail.

The central problem in the status debate has been: how to strike a happy balance between Puerto Rico’s economic needs, which could be filled through uninterrupted association with the United States, and the cultural divergence between the mainland and the island. Bringing together new and significant information drawn from government records and personal papers of U.S. officials, this book will be of interest to all serious students of Puerto Rican affairs, as well as to U.S. and Puerto Rican government and political leaders.

Open access edition funded by the National Endowment for Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program.

Table of Contents

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Cover

Half-Title Page, Title Page, Copyright, Dedication, Acknowledgements

pp. i-viii

Table of Contents

pp. ix-x

Kansas Open Books Foreword

pp. xi-xvi

Introduction. Setting the Scene

pp. 1-6

1. Politics in Puerto Rico and the Tydings Bill of 1936

pp. 7-24

2. The Organization and Triumph of the Partido Popular Democrático

pp. 25-38

3. Delayed New Deal under Murioz Marin and Governor Tugwell

pp. 39-56

4. An Attempt to End "Humiliating Suspense"

pp. 57-72

5. Muñoz Marin's Shift from Independence to Autonomy, 1944-1946

pp. 73-92

6. Self-Government "Little by Little"

pp. 93-108

7. "Polititiation Mutation"

pp. 109-134

8. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, July, 1952

pp. 135-166

9. The Commonwealth, 1952-1968

pp. 167-186

10. "Operation Bootstrap"

pp. 187-206

11. The Status Debate Continues

pp. 207-216

Appendix

pp. 217-232

Notes

pp. 233-266

Bibliography

pp. 267-282

Index

pp. 283-290

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