Almost Citizens: Puerto Rico, the U.S. Constitution, and Empire - Couverture rigide

Erman, Sam

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1108415490 ISBN 13 : 9781108415491

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2018

Synopsis

Almost Citizens lays out the tragic story of how the United States denied Puerto Ricans full citizenship following annexation of the island in 1898. As America became an overseas empire, a handful of remarkable Puerto Ricans debated with US legislators, presidents, judges, and others over who was a citizen and what citizenship meant. This struggle caused a fundamental shift in constitution law: away from the post-Civil War regime of citizenship, rights, and statehood, and toward doctrines that accommodated racist imperial governance. Erman's gripping account shows how, in the wake of the Spanish-American War, administrators, lawmakers, and presidents together with judges deployed creativity and ambiguity to transform constitutional meaning for a quarter of a century. The result is a history in which the United States and Latin America, Reconstruction and empire, and law and bureaucracy intertwine.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Sam Erman is Associate Professor at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1108415490
• ISBN 13: 9781108415491
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 290
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Cambridge University Press; https://www.cambridge.org/; ; Via Honduras,15; Pomezia; Italia; 71; Italie