Puerto Rico's Statehood Movement

by Edgardo Meléndez

Against a historical backdrop whose origins go back to the US's acquisition of Puerto Rico in the Spanish-American War, the author examines in close detail the evolution of the statehood movement in that territory. . . . This volume will interest mostly professional scholars, graduate students, and general readers attuned to the Puerto Rican statehood issue and to such matters as ethnicity and constitutional development in societies still governed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313261318
• ISBN13: 9780313261312
• Release Date: September 1988
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"