...Maura I. Toro-Morn We Are Left Without A Father Here: Masculinity, Domesticity, and Migration in Postwar Puerto Rico . By Eileen J. Suárez Findlay . Durham : Duke University Press , 2014 . 300 pp., $24.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-8223-5766-7 . © 2016 Agricultural History Society...

...Timothy W. Lorek Abstract This essay revisits a 1947 article about race and colonial history in the Americas to uncover overlooked geographic and intellectual components of the emerging Green Revolution in agricultural technologies then in formation. It argues that Puerto Rico and the island’s...

...Juan José Baldrich Abstract This article examines the transition of the Puerto Rican operations of the “Tobacco Trust” from a cigarette manufacturing operation in 1899 to an agribusiness by 1911. The Porto Rican American Tobacco Company (PRATCO) created monopolistic conditions by absorbing the two...

...Rosa Elena Carrasquillo Puerto Ricans in the Empire: Tobacco Growers and US Colonialism . By Teresita A. Levy . New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press , 2015 . 200 pp., $28.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-8135-7132-4 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 2015 Book...

...Jeffrey M. Pilcher Eating Puerto Rico: A History of Food, Culture, and Identity . By Cruz Miguel Ortíz Cuadra . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2013 . 408 pp., $45.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-4696-0882-2 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015...

...Geoff Burrows Abstract The Great Depression in Puerto Rico was marked by interconnected infrastructural, environmental, and socioeconomic crises caused by the global economic contraction and two devastating natural disasters, the San Felipe and San Ciprián hurricanes of 1928 and 1932. After 1935...

...William A. Morgan Agrarian Puerto Rico: Reconsidering Rural Economy and Society, 1899–1940 . By Cesar Ayala and Laird Bergad . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2020 . 322 pp., $99.00 , hardback, ISBN 9781108488464. © 2021 Agricultural History Society 2021 Book...

... 3 Isabel Becerra de Weirich, "Las primeras estaciones agronómicas en Puerto Rico" (master’s thesis, University of Puerto Rico, 1969). 4 Richard A. Overfield, "Science Follows the Flag: The Office of Experiment Stations and American Expansion," Agricultural History64 (Spring 1990): 31 -40...

...José O. Solá Abstract This article presents new research on the impact and consequences of the incorporation of Puerto Rico into the American economic sphere of influence and how much change truly took place during the first decades of the twentieth century. As reconstructed here, Puerto Rico's...

...Deborah Cohen Organized Agriculture and the Labor Movement before the UFW: Puerto Rico, Hawai‘i, California . By Dionicio Nodín Valdés . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2011 . 328 pp., $55.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-292-72639-0 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2012...

..., the volume also reviews and is conversant with the relevant cuban tobacco literature originating on the island itself, the united States, Mexico, Puerto rico, and Spain. chapter one addresses the diffusion of tobacco to europe, while chapter Two examines the development of specific techniques in the planting...

... spotlight on the role played by the silent majority will enrich the debates of the next generation. Pamela Radcliff University of California San Diego Agrarian Puerto Rico: Reconsidering Rural Economy and Society, 1899 1940. By Cesar Ayala and Laird Bergad. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 322...

... to the disappearance of between 30,000 and 50,000 small-scale landowners by the 1930s (5). In stark contrast, Ayala and Bergad s collection of data shows landlessness among Puerto Rico s rural population at 72 percent in 1899, a rate that would remain consistent over the next three decades with data from 1935 showing...

... and the Labor Movement before the UFW: Puerto Rico, Hawai i, California. By Dionicio Nod ´n Valde´ s. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2011. 328 pp., $55.00, hardback, ISBN 978-0-292-72639-0. Dionicio Nod ´n Valde´ s opens his examination of farm labor organizing with a conundrum: Puerto Rico, Hawaii...

..., Domesticity, and Migration in Postwar Puerto Rico. By Eileen J. Suárez Findlay. Durham: Duke University Press, 2014. 300 pp., $24.95, paperback, ISBN 978-0-8223-5766-7. Eileen Suárez Findlay s new book explores an important chapter of the Puerto Rican diaspora: the 1950s recruitment of over five thousand...

... of nature, progress, and morality. Philip Mills Herrington James Madison University Latin America Puerto Ricans in the Empire: Tobacco Growers and US Colonialism. By Teresita A. Levy. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2015. 200 pp., $28.95, paperback, ISBN 978-0-8135-7132-4. With this important book...

... Scholar Latin America Eating Puerto Rico: A History of Food, Culture, and Identity. By cruz miguel ortíz cuadra. chapel hill: university of north carolina press, 2013. 408 pp., $45.00, hardback, isBn 978-1-4696-0882-2. This excellent book opens with a list of the favorite dishes of puerto rican...

.... The book is a welcome addition to the understanding of US colonialism in the Caribbean. Its honest and brief analysis of tobacco production, farmer activism, and negotiations within a colonial state makes the book a must read for students of US colonialism, Caribbean, and Puerto Rican history. Rosa Elena...

... sugars could shape whole economies and empires. After 1898 the United States had built a sugar empire of trade and tariff policies that linked Cuba, Hawai i, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico to the cane fields of Louisiana and the beet farmers of the western states. Everywhere, Merleaux shows, sugar...

... such racialized meanings of particular sugars could shape whole economies and empires. After 1898 the United States had built a sugar empire of trade and tariff policies that linked Cuba, Hawai i, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico to the cane fields of Louisiana and the beet farmers of the western states...