The Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration: New Deal Public Works, Modernization, and Colonial Reform (Burrows Geoff G.)(Paperback)

An important New Deal program that shaped
the relationship between Puerto Rico and the United States This
book explores the history and impact of the Puerto Rico Reconstruction
Administration (PRRA), the most important New Deal agency to operate in Puerto
Rico and the largest created for any United States territory. Geoff Burrows demonstrates
how the PRRA improved living conditions across the island in the wake of destructive
hurricanes and the Great Depression, while at the same time resulting in a
reformed, strengthened, and lasting colonial relationship between Puerto Rico
and the US.Using previously untapped archival sources and a wide range
of primary and secondary texts, Burrows follows the agency from its founding by
President Roosevelt in 1935 to its ending in 1955, situating its public works
program in both Puerto Rican and
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