Island at War : Puerto Rico in the Crucible of the Second World War / edited by Jorge Rodríguez Beruff and José L. Bolívar Fresneda.

Contributor Rodríguez Beruff, Jorge, editor.

Imprint:Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2015]

Descriptionxxi, 272 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.

Note:Rediscovering Puerto Rico and the Caribbean: US strategic debate and war planning on the eve of the Second World War / Jorge Rodriguez Beruff -- Puerto Rico: headquarters of the Caribbean Sea Frontier, 1940-1945 / Fitzroy Andre Baptiste -- War and political transition in Puerto Rico, 1939-1940 / Jorge Rodriguez Beruff -- The wartime quartet: Munoz Marin, Tugwell, Ickes, and FDR / Michael Janeway -- The war economy of Puerto Rico, 1939-1945 / Jose L. Bolivar Fresneda -- The German blockade of the Caribbean in 1942 and its effects in Puerto Rico / Ligia T. Domenech -- Vieques: the impact of the Second World War / Cesar J. Ayala Casas and Jose L. Bolivar Fresneda -- The Anglo-American Caribbean Commission: a socioeconomic strategy designed for military security, 1942-1946 / Mayra Rosario Urrutia -- Geopolitics and telecommunications policy in Puerto Rico: ITT and the Porto Rico Telephone Company, 1942-1948 / Luis Rosario Albert -- What did you do in the war, Daddy? The story of a Puerto Rican in the Second World War and Korea: Captain Harry Chabran Acevedo, 1925-1986 / Rafael Chabran.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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