Author: GORDON K. LEWIS
Title: Puerto Rico
Description: NYU Press, 1963. Paperback. Pp: 626. Puerto Rico has been held up by official United States sources as a "showcase of democracy" and a model of American responsibilities in the Western Hemisphere. This book separates face and myth and portrays in scholarly detail the realities of modern Puerto Rico-its combination of real economic progress and socio-political retardation, its cultural distress and disorganization arising out of American penetration, its continuing neocolonial character as an American tropical dependency, the humiliating status of Puerto Ricans as second-class American citizens, the need for independence and socialism as the twin answers to the Puerto Rican tragedy.-From book jacket. ISBN: 9780853453239. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9780853453239
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Title: Puerto Rico
Description: NYU Press, 1963. Paperback. Pp: 626. Puerto Rico has been held up by official United States sources as a "showcase of democracy" and a model of American responsibilities in the Western Hemisphere. This book separates face and myth and portrays in scholarly detail the realities of modern Puerto Rico-its combination of real economic progress and socio-political retardation, its cultural distress and disorganization arising out of American penetration, its continuing neocolonial character as an American tropical dependency, the humiliating status of Puerto Ricans as second-class American citizens, the need for independence and socialism as the twin answers to the Puerto Rican tragedy.-From book jacket. ISBN: 9780853453239. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9780853453239
Price: EUR 10.00 = appr. US$ 10.87 Seller: De Slegte
- Book number: 2119305
- Book number: 2119305
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