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Battleship Vieques : Puerto Rico from World War II to the Korean War
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Battleship Vieques : Puerto Rico from World War II to the Korean War / César J. Ayala and José L. Bolívar.
ISBN
9781558765375 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1558765379 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781558765382 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1558765387 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Princeton : Markus Wiener Publishers, c2011.
Physical Description
vii, 220 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 01, 2011
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: Militarism in Vieques in an epoch of decolonization
The German naval blockade and the war economy
Vieques : from frontier to plantation society
Expropriations and evictions
Interlude
Cold War and return of the Navy, 1947-1948
Colonial segregation
Involution, 1950-1953
Epilogue: Long-term effects.
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