Land reform in Puerto Rico
Subtitle: modernizing the colonial state, 1941-1969
By: Ismael García-Colón.
Series: New directions in Puerto Rican studies
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 163
ISBN-13: 9780813033631
Subjects: Land reform -- Puerto Rico -- History -- 20th century; Land tenure -- Puerto Rico -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: On being landless : the expansion of agrarian capitalism and the crisis of the 1930s; title: Land distribution and the rise of a new party politics; title: Government planning and the policies of land resettlement; title: Close encounters of colonialism : state formation in the Parcelas; title: Community formation and livelihood; title: Aftermath : Parcelas, a showcase for democracy and development.