Land reform in Puerto Rico : modernizing the colonial state, 1941-1969 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	García-Colón, Ismael
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2009]
Series:	New directions in Puerto Rican studies.
Subjects:	Land tenure > Puerto Rico > History > 20th century. Land reform > Puerto Rico > History > 20th century. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

On being landless : the expansion of agrarian capitalism and the crisis of the 1930s
Land distribution and the rise of a new party politics
Government planning and the policies of land resettlement
Close encounters of colonialism : state formation in the Parcelas
Community formation and livelihood
Aftermath : Parcelas, a showcase for democracy and development.