(Post-)colonial Archipelagos : Comparing the Legacies of Spanish Colonialism in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines

The University of Michigan Press

(Post-)colonial ArchipelagosComparing the Legacies of Spanish Colonialism in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines\nAuthor(s): Hans-Jrgen Burchardt, Johanna Leinius\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: The University of Michigan Press, United States\nImprint: The University of Michigan Press\nISBN-13: 9780472133161, 978-0472133161\nSynopsis\nThe Puerto Rican debt crisis, the challenges of social, political, and economic transition in Cuba, and the populist politics of Duterte in the Philippinesthese topics are typically seen as disparate experiences of social reality. Though these island territories were colonized by the same two colonial powersby the Spanish Empire and, after 1898, by the United Statesresearch in the fields of history and the social sciences rarely draws links between these three contexts.\n\nLocated at the intersection of Postcolonial Studies, Latin American Studies, Caribbean Studies, and History, this interdisciplinary volume brings together scholars from the US, Europ.