...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...

... challenged by a generation of revisionist historians. At the same time, the book s 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...

... 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...

... major domestic cigarette factories and their former owners as shareholders. When the American Tobacco Company (ATC) entered the US cigar trade in 1902 in earnest, the PRATCO initiated an enormous expansion. While the trust never became a leaf grower save in Cuba and Puerto Rico, the Porto Rican Leaf...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

..., 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...

... 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...

.... At the same time, the book s 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...

.... capital investments in the sugar economy led 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...

... circulated newspaper, El agricultor puertorriqueño, the AAP had the muscle to meet regularly with the governor and the resident commissioner of Puerto Rico in Washington, DC. And their political clout did not stop in the Caribbean. The AAP could demand a visitation with the president of the United States...

... 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 Golden Leaf is a refreshing contribution to cuban tobacco based on extensive archival research. Juan José Baldrich Universidad de Puerto Rico Río Piedras Rice: Global Networks and New Histories. edited by r. Francesca Bray, Peter a. coclanis, edda l. Fields-Black, and dagmar Schäfer. cambridge: cambridge...

..., 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...

... 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...

... 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...

...: Moderization, Experts, and Rural Life in Puerto Rico, 1935 1942, appeared in the summer issue of Agricultural History. Burrows is a Senior Program Officer at the National Endowment for the Humanities. Gilbert C. Fite Award James Lin is the 2017 winner of the Gilbert C. Fite Dissertation Award for his...