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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aLevy, Teresita A.
_eautore
245 1 0 _aPuerto Ricans in the Empire :
_bTobacco Growers and U.S. Colonialism /
_cTeresita A. Levy.
264 1 _aNew Brunswick, NJ :
_bRutgers University Press,
_c[2014]
264 4 _c©2015
300 _a1 online resource (182 p.) :
_b6 figures, 33 tables
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520 _aMost 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.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Mai 2022)
650 0 _aTobacco industry
_xHistory
_xPuerto Rico.
650 0 _aTobacco industry
_zPuerto Rico
_xHistory.
650 0 _aTobacco
_xPolitical aspects
_xHistory
_xPuerto Rico.
650 0 _aTobacco
_xPolitical aspects
_zPuerto Rico
_xHistory.
650 7 _aHISTORY / General.
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