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...Jane Landers Alabama and the Borderlands From Prehistory to Statehood . Edited by Badger Reid and Clayton Lawrence A. . University, AL : The University of Alabama Press , 1985 . Illustrations. Index. Maps. Notes. Bibliography . Pp. 250 . Cloth. $27.60 . Copyright 1986...

...John V. Murra The Transition to Statehood in the New World . Edited by Jones Grant D. and Kautz Robert R. . New York : Cambridge University Press , 1981 . Notes. Tables. Figures. Bibliography. Index . Pp. ix , 254 . Cloth. $27.50 . Copyright 1982 by Duke University Press...

...Olga Jiménez-Wagenheim Puerto Rico’s Statehood Movement . By Meléndez Edgardo . Westport : Greenwood Press , 1988 . Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. 194 . Cloth . $37.95 . Copyright 1989 by Duke University Press 1989 Meléndez’s book is very timely; besides filling...

.... The story begins with the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848 and ends with New Mexico achieving statehood in 1912. The increasing US hege mony played a pivotal role in the shifting images of Hispanics in New Mexico. Unlike most assessments of this subject, the study focuses on southern New...

... 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...

... Americans with Indians or African Americans, who were not citizens. To fight for statehood, Anglos in New Mexico understood that they had to increase the number of whites in the territory; they achieved this by positioning Mexican Americans as white. Mexican Americans benefited from what Gómez calls...

..., and practical manifestations. Córdova delineates the development of what culminated in the statehood option. He argues that the proponents of joining the Union on an equal footing believed—as they do now—that this political option offered the island the most autonomy in its internal affairs. This group...

... emerges because of the current electoral stalemate between the forces for statehood and for those seeking a redefinition of the commonwealth arrangement. Although there is increasing electoral support for statehood, the author implicitly doubts that the metropolis is “willing to grant statehood to 3...

... ; The Transfer Economy of Puerto Rico: Towards an Urban Ghetto, E lías G utiérrez ; Crops vs. Coupons: Food Stamps and Agricultural Development in Puerto Rico, R ichard W eisskoff ; The Economic Implications of Statehood, B ertram F inn ; Ideological Links Between Puerto Rican and U.S. Political Parties, J...

... on July 23, 1967, at which the current argument between the advocates of ultimate statehood and continued commonwealth status reached a high point. Although commonwealth status won with sixty percent of the vote, statehood piled up the heaviest total it has ever achieved. Whichever road the island...

... changed political alignments. Conflicts between pro-statehood Republi cans and advocates of autonomy became violent in the first years of the occupation. By 1906, however, the pro-autonomy/independence Unión Puertorriqueña had gained the upper hand in Cayey, as elsewhere in Puerto Rico (though the pro...

... and language. In 2012, Puerto Rico held the fourth plebiscite since 1967 on its status relative to the United States. Though the plebiscite resulted in the first majority vote for US statehood, it took place alongside an election in which the pro-statehood governor, Luis Fortuño, lost to the candidate...

... in the data presented which should be checked. In addition, the book lacks a thorough analysis of the rationale and extent of the statehood movement which would have given the reader a more objective idea of the true nature of the long struggle for national independence and socialism. ...

...Paul J. Scheips Puerto Ricans long have been preoccupied with the question of their island’s ultimate political status. Some Puerto Ricans prefer independence and others statehood, but today a majority favor the present commonwealth status, at least as a transitional arrangement. The unsettled...

...James W. Cortada The helpful appendices shed considerable light on Barbosa’s thinking with regard to his conception of self-rule under the American flag. He argued for full statehood as the means of achieving complete equality under the new circumstances, thus eliminating the onerous status...

... in the Caribbean. Robert Anderson’s essay on “The Politics of Puerto Rico” observes that the Island’s traditional goal for autonomism ultimately helped create that “practical middle course between statehood and independence today.” Articles on the French and Netherlands Antilles emphasize political...

... the Pipil and led to their progression to statehood. As Fowler himself points out, ecological-functionalist explanations are not evolutionary, and he uses a historical materialistic explanation involving tribute as a relation of production to provide a dynamic aspect to the process. He also invokes Immanuel...

... the twenty-second Brazilian state. Sixty years ago Acre was not even a part of Brazil. The road to statehood was short but tortuous. This admirable history of Dr. Tocantins tells the story of how and why Acre became Brazilian. It is a dramatic history which chronicles the last of the bandeirantes , those...

... a Colorado, guided the republic’s emergence into modern statehood. Their careers first converged when they separately opposed President Juan Idiarte Borda’s unpopular Colorado regime from 1894 to 1897, as Saravia headed a military uprising while Batlle launched editorial assaults. Assassination...