This book focuses on formative three-and-one-half decades (1898–1932) of U.S. colonial rule and provides a comprehensive interpretation of how the U.S. attempted to transform Puerto Rico from Spanish empire into one of its key props in establishing hegemony in the western hemisphere.
Puerto Rico has been a territorial possession of the United States for over one hundred years. As a strategic insular possession and guardian of the Panama Canal, a lucrative offshore investment site for U.S. multinational corporations, and a long-standing source of labor power, Puerto Rico has had an important role in American history since 1898.T
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