...G. Leighton LaFuze Records of the Bureau of Insular Affairs Relating to Puerto Rico, 1898-1934: A List of Selected Files . Compiled by Munden Kenneth and Greenbaum Milton . ( Washington : The National Archives , 1943 . Pp. xi , 47 .) Copyright 1944 by Duke University Press...

...David A. Lock miller Records of the Bureau of Insular Affairs Relating to the United States Military Government of Cuba, 1898-1902, and the United States Provisional Government of Cuba, 1906-1909; a List of Selected Files . Compiled by Munden Kenneth . ( Washington : The National...

...James K. Eyre, Jr Records of the Bureau of Insular Affairs Relating to the Philippine Islands, 1898-1935. A List of Selected Files . Compiled by Munden Kenneth . ( Washington, D. C. : The National Archives , October , 1942 . Pp. xii , 91 .) Copyright 1944 by Duke University...

... Press 1976 Since 1898, Puerto Rico has been striving to discover a political relationship with the United States that will be realistic. Various insular political parties have been created and have adapted their strategy to the achievement of either statehood within or independence of the United...

... of return migration provides a useful starting point to assess its full implications for the future. The study is based on special tabulations drawn from the decennial censuses of population. Three groups of Puerto Ricans are identified (those living on the mainland, the return migrants, and the insular...

... archipelago. This volume also rigorously clarifies a number of debates that shaped the contours of US policymaking during the period. This is a must-read for any scholar interested in the intersection of US military policy and insular institution building during the period. The essays in this volume draw...

... years later, the US colonial government centralized policing and created the Insular Police of Porto Rico. As labor organizing proliferated and socialist ideas were heard in public plazas across the archipelago, police officers, government officials, and employers came together in crafting the image...

... large part of the total insular population from the earliest eighteenth-century censuses onward. They were three to four times greater than the slave population and reached 127,000 by 1830—by then representing almost 40 percent of the total population. Out of this group the author has selected those who...

...: they risked allowing insularity to take hold in treating a peninsula which has not been insular for many centuries. They therefore, somewhere along the way, made the decision to include Latin America. But they apparently took the step half-heartedly. It is only on p. 513 that this volume at last turns its...

... a lot of Oviedo’s assumption that the New World was not insular, arguing that it was part of a rhetorical strategy favoring “the impending universal monarchy of Charles V” (p. 147). In a tenuously integrated chapter, Alonso de Ercilla’s work is “fully cartographic” and “protocartographic” at once (p...

... or phases of insular life which are subjected to critical analysis. In the process one cherished icon after another of the mystique of modern Puerto Rico is demolished. However, the author has made a conscious effort to recognize the beneficial and positive effects of the social institutions which he...

... prescribed monotonous and repressive academic narratives. Ortiz D ´az focuses on the period from the 1930s (when the Insular Penitentiary at R ´o Piedras opened) through the 1960s, years that witnessed the rise and fall of a rehabilitative era and a reformed colonialism in Puerto Rico under colonial...

... Partido de Unión Constitucional (PUC), que entre 1878 y 1898 agrupó a los sectores más conservadores de la élite insular, pero cuyo programa económico y social, e incluso su praxis política se aproximó mucho más al Partido Liberal de Cuba (PLC) de lo que hasta ahora se ha afirmado. Al dedicar especial...

... a farmhouse on Flores and find on the kitchen wall a calendar from a grocery-store in New Bedford, Massachusetts. The influence of the United States even extends to the insular Portuguese vocabulary; in almost every list of regionalisms published one finds words like chipeiro (spade), chomeca (shoe-maker...

..., B ruce M. B agley ; The Politics of Developmentalism: U.S. Policy toward Jamaica, J acqueline A nne B raveboy -W agner ; The Insular Caribbean as a Crucial Test for U.S. Policy, A braham F. L owenthal . Copyright 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 The Caribbean Challenge: U.S. Policy...

... of the Philippines overlooks more than it states. He also fails to clarify the real economic urgency attendant on the original Puerto Rican legislation, which by chance came to be amended into the first Organic Act. His treatment of the Insular Cases is also inadequate. Any summary of the early U.S...

..., and the rooms weren’t crowded and dreary the way they were here [New York].” (p. 108) Finally it is not made clear that the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico is in fact part of the United States and that Puerto Ricans are American citizens. The author does succeed in contrasting typical insular behavior and attitudes...

... they were Baffin Island, Labrador, and the island of Newfoundland, as Ingstad claims, is another matter. The unquestioned proof of a Viking settlement at L’Anse aux Meadows does not necessarily prove that insular Newfoundland is Vinland, nor does it establish that this was the camp of Leif the Lucky...

..., means the insular Caribbean since about 1945, though there are occasional chronological references to earlier times and geographical allusions to Central America. For the most part the emphasis is on the post-Castro era; a stated objective of the author is to carry forward the history of the Caribbean...

... to the AGPR. Thus, not only is it a major contribution to Puerto Rican historiography, but it is also indicative of research possibilites for island social and economic history, areas not traditionally emphasized by insular historians. ...