Author: R.R. Bowker Company. Department of BibliographyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 2530
Book Description
American Book Publishing Record Cumulative, 1950-1977
Author: R.R. Bowker Company. Department of BibliographyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 2530
Book Description
Report of the Commissioner of Education for Porto Rico, 1903 (Classic Reprint)
Author: Dept of Education Puerto RicoPublisher:
ISBN: 9781330510247
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Excerpt from Report of the Commissioner of Education for Porto Rico, 1903 Sir: I have the honor to submit my annual report on education in Porto Rico for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1903, prepared in pursuance of section 25 of the act of Congress, approved April 12, 1900 (31 Stat, 77), entitled "An act to provide revenue and a civil government for Porto Rico, and for other purposes," and in pursuance of section 139 of the. Political Code of Porto Rico, approved March 1, 1902. Sir: I have the honor to invite your attention to section 25 of the act of Congress, approved April 12, 1900 (31 Stat., 77), entitled "An act to provide revenue and a civil government for Porto Rico, and for other purposes," which provides as follows: "That the commissioner of education shall superintend public instruction throughout Porto Rico, and all disbursements on account thereof must be approved by him; and he shall perform such other duties as may be prescribed by law, and make such reports through the governor as may be required by the Commissioner of Education of the United States, which shall annually be transmitted to Congress." I have to request that you will cause this matter to be brought to the attention of the commissioner of education with request that he will prepare and forward, through you for my consideration, at a date not later than October 1, 1903, a report of the educational matters pertaining to Porto Rico with which he is charged under existing laws. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Foreign in a Domestic Sense
Author: Christina Duffy BurnettPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822381168
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
In this groundbreaking study of American imperialism, leading legal scholars address the problem of the U.S. territories. Foreign in a Domestic Sense will redefine the boundaries of constitutional scholarship. More than four million U.S. citizens currently live in five “unincorporated” U.S. territories. The inhabitants of these vestiges of an American empire are denied full representation in Congress and cannot vote in presidential elections. Focusing on Puerto Rico, the largest and most populous of the territories, Foreign in a Domestic Sense sheds much-needed light on the United States’ unfinished colonial experiment and its legacy of racially rooted imperialism, while insisting on the centrality of these “marginal” regions in any serious treatment of American constitutional history. For one hundred years, Puerto Ricans have struggled to define their place in a nation that neither wants them nor wants to let them go. They are caught in a debate too politicized to yield meaningful answers. Meanwhile, doubts concerning the constitutionality of keeping colonies have languished on the margins of mainstream scholarship, overlooked by scholars outside the island and ignored by the nation at large. This book does more than simply fill a glaring omission in the study of race, cultural identity, and the Constitution; it also makes a crucial contribution to the study of American federalism, serves as a foundation for substantive debate on Puerto Rico’s status, and meets an urgent need for dialogue on territorial status between the mainlandd and the territories. Contributors. José Julián Álvarez González, Roberto Aponte Toro, Christina Duffy Burnett, José A. Cabranes, Sanford Levinson, Burke Marshall, Gerald L. Neuman, Angel R. Oquendo, Juan Perea, Efrén Rivera Ramos, Rogers M. Smith, E. Robert Statham Jr., Brook Thomas, Richard Thornburgh, Juan R. Torruella, José Trías Monge, Mark Tushnet, Mark Weiner
Report of the Commissioner of Education Made to the Secretary of the Interior for the Year ... with Accompanying Papers
Author: United States. Bureau of EducationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
Sugar and Civilization
Author: April MerleauxPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469622521
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
In the weeks and months after the end of the Spanish-American War, Americans celebrated their nation's triumph by eating sugar. Each of the nation's new imperial possessions, from Puerto Rico to the Philippines, had the potential for vastly expanding sugar production. As victory parties and commemorations prominently featured candy and other sweets, Americans saw sugar as the reward for their global ambitions. April Merleaux demonstrates that trade policies and consumer cultures are as crucial to understanding U.S. empire as military or diplomatic interventions. As the nation's sweet tooth grew, people debated tariffs, immigration, and empire, all of which hastened the nation's rise as an international power. These dynamics played out in the bureaucracies of Washington, D.C., in the pages of local newspapers, and at local candy counters. Merleaux argues that ideas about race and civilization shaped sugar markets since government policies and business practices hinged on the racial characteristics of the people who worked the land and consumed its products. Connecting the history of sugar to its producers, consumers, and policy makers, Merleaux shows that the modern American sugar habit took shape in the shadow of a growing empire.
The Aborigines of Porto Rico and Neighboring Islands
Author: Jesse Walter FewkesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of the West Indies
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Status of Puerto Rico
Author: United States-Puerto Rico Commission on the Status of Puerto RicoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Puerto Rico
Languages : en
Pages : 986
Book Description
Catalogue of the Public Documents of the ... Congress and of All Departments of the Government of the United States for the Period from ... to ...
Author: United States. Superintendent of DocumentsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 2868
Book Description
A Guide to Cultural Landscape Reports
Author: Robert R. PagePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Historic preservation
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Washington, its sights and insights
Author: Harriet Earhart MonroePublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
"Washington, its sights and insights" by Harriet Earhart Monroe. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.