Puerto Rico and the United States, 1917-1933

by Truman R. Clark

Book Overview

From 1917 to 1933, the United States kept Puerto Rico in limbo, offering it neither a course toward independence nor much hope for prompt statehood. The Jones Act of 1917 gave Puerto Ricans U.S. citizenship, but the status of the island didn't change. In 1922, a Supreme Court decision reaffirmed the 1901 principle that island possessions had no right to equal treatment with continental territories and states. Clark unfolds with clarity the painful...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822984504
• ISBN13: 9780822984504
• Release Date: June 1975
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"