Author: Puerto Rico Experiment StationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural experiment stations
Languages : en
Pages : 1106
Book Description
Report of the Puerto Rico Experiment Station
Author: Puerto Rico Experiment StationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural experiment stations
Languages : en
Pages : 1106
Book Description
Report of the Federal Experiment Station in Puerto Rico
Author: Federal Experiment Station, MayaguezPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Report of the Federal Experiment Station in Puerto Rico
Author: Federal Experiment Station in Puerto RicoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural experiment stations
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
Report of the Chief of the Office of Experiment Stations
Author: United States. Office of Experiment StationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural experiment stations
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Report of the Director of the Office of Experiment Stations
Author: United States. Office of Experiment StationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
List of Available Publications of the United States Department of Agriculture
Author: United States. Department of AgriculturePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Miscellaneous Publication
Author: Report on the Agricultural Experiment Stations
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural experiment stations
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Report on the Work and Expenditures of the Agricultural Experiment Stations
Author: United States. Agricultural Research ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural experiment stations
Languages : en
Pages : 920
Book Description
Puerto Ricans in the Empire
Author: Teresita A. LevyPublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813571340
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Most studies of Puerto Rico’s relations with the United States have focused on the sugar industry, recounting a tale of victimization and imperial abuse driven by the interests of U.S. sugar companies. But inPuerto Ricans in the Empire, Teresita A. Levy looks at a different agricultural sector, tobacco growing, and tells a story in which Puerto Ricans challenged U.S. officials and fought successfully for legislation that benefited the island. Levy describes how small-scale, politically involved, independent landowners grew most of the tobacco in Puerto Rico. She shows how, to gain access to political power, tobacco farmers joined local agricultural leagues and the leading farmers’ association, the Asociación de Agricultores Puertorriqueños (AAP). Through their affiliation with the AAP, they successfully lobbied U.S. administrators in San Juan and Washington, participated in government-sponsored agricultural programs, solicited agricultural credit from governmental sources, and sought scientific education in a variety of public programs, all to boost their share of the tobacco-leaf market in the United States. By their own efforts, Levy argues, Puerto Ricans demanded and won inclusion in the empire, in terms that were defined not only by the colonial power, but also by the colonized. The relationship between Puerto Rico and the United States was undoubtedly colonial in nature, but, as Puerto Ricans in the Empire shows, it was not unilateral. It was a dynamic, elastic, and ever-changing interaction, where Puerto Ricans actively participated in the economic and political processes of a negotiated empire.