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Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
National Windstorm Impact Reduction Act,...March 13, 2014, 113-2 H.Rept. 113-380, Part 1
Author: Operation and maintenance, Title III
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed ServicesPublisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
Constructing A Colonial People
Author: Pedro A CabanPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429981031
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 435
Book Description
Constructing Colonial People provides a new and comprehensive interpretation of how the United States attempted to transform Puerto Rico from a neglected backwater of the Spanish empire into one of its key props in establishing hegemony in the western hemisphere. The book looks at the formative three-and-one-half decades of U.S. colonial rule, when the colony's key institutions, economic structures, and legal doctrines were transformed. Policy papers, speeches, newspaper articles, and memoirs from the period inform the study with particular detail and insight. Cabán further examines the dynamics of U.S. expansionism during the Progressive Era and examines the normative and ideological constructions that were used to rationalize a campaign of territorial acquisition and colonial administration. He also demonstrates how the military and subsequent civilian regimes directed a process of institutional transformation, state building, and capitalist development.
Sugar and Civilization
Author: April MerleauxPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469622521
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
In the weeks and months after the end of the Spanish-American War, Americans celebrated their nation's triumph by eating sugar. Each of the nation's new imperial possessions, from Puerto Rico to the Philippines, had the potential for vastly expanding sugar production. As victory parties and commemorations prominently featured candy and other sweets, Americans saw sugar as the reward for their global ambitions. April Merleaux demonstrates that trade policies and consumer cultures are as crucial to understanding U.S. empire as military or diplomatic interventions. As the nation's sweet tooth grew, people debated tariffs, immigration, and empire, all of which hastened the nation's rise as an international power. These dynamics played out in the bureaucracies of Washington, D.C., in the pages of local newspapers, and at local candy counters. Merleaux argues that ideas about race and civilization shaped sugar markets since government policies and business practices hinged on the racial characteristics of the people who worked the land and consumed its products. Connecting the history of sugar to its producers, consumers, and policy makers, Merleaux shows that the modern American sugar habit took shape in the shadow of a growing empire.
Puerto Rican Politics and the New Deal
Author: Thomas G. MathewsPublisher:
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Category : Puerto Rico
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Allegations of Selective Prosecution
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative LawPublisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
US Expansionism
Author: David HealyPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
China Market
Author: Thomas J. McCormickPublisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
ISBN: 9780929587240
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An authoritative history of the Chinese student movement for democracy which ended in tragedy in Tiananmen Square in the spring of 1989.
Consumers' Imperium
Author: Kristin L. HogansonPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780807888889
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Histories of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era tend to characterize the United States as an expansionist nation bent on Americanizing the world without being transformed itself. In Consumers' Imperium, Kristin Hoganson reveals the other half of the story, demonstrating that the years between the Civil War and World War I were marked by heightened consumption of imports and strenuous efforts to appear cosmopolitan. Hoganson finds evidence of international connections in quintessentially domestic places--American households. She shows that well-to-do white women in this era expressed intense interest in other cultures through imported household objects, fashion, cooking, entertaining, armchair travel clubs, and the immigrant gifts movement. From curtains to clothing, from around-the-world parties to arts and crafts of the homelands exhibits, Hoganson presents a new perspective on the United States in the world by shifting attention from exports to imports, from production to consumption, and from men to women. She makes it clear that globalization did not just happen beyond America's shores, as a result of American military might and industrial power, but that it happened at home, thanks to imports, immigrants, geographical knowledge, and consumer preferences. Here is an international history that begins at home.
Insatiable Appetite
Author: Richard P. TuckerPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780742553651
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
This book presents a comprehensive and critical historical overview of the role played by the US as a developer and consumer of tropical nature. -- Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, LLC.
