A new deal for the tropics
Subtitle: Puerto Rico during the Depression era, 1932-1935
By: Manuel R. Rodriguez
Contributors: Puerto Rico Emergency Relief Administration
Publisher: Markus Wiener Publishers
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 161
ISBN-13: 9781558765177; 9781558765184
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Bringing the promise of modernity : a new deal for Puerto Rico, 1932-1935; title: From emergency relief to development : the emergence of the Puerto Rico Emergency Relief Administration; title: The heralds of modernity : the role of Puerto Rican professionals in the Puerto Rican Relief Administration; title: The deployment of development : the implementation of the Prera Programs and their impact upon Puerto Rican society; title: The limits of the PRERA as a development project and the rise of a new government rationale.