Constructing a Colonial People

Caban, Pedro

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“…28 Roosevelt repeated his call for citizenship in his annual messages to Congress the following two years, fearing competition with European powers in the region and wanting to eliminate their influence in the region. 29 Members of Congress shared Roosevelt's concern that poor treatment of Puerto Rico could reflect badly on the United States. In 1910, Representative Harvey Helm, a Democrat from Kentucky, worried that American colonial governance in Puerto Rico hurt America's global reputation as a liberal government.…”

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The Empty Gift: Citizenship, Imperialism, and Political Development in Puerto Rico

Henning

2023

Stud. Am. Pol. Dev.

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After nearly two decades under U.S. rule, the 1917 Jones Act granted American citizenship to Puerto Ricans. I argue that the United States strategically granted collective citizenship in order to strengthen its colonial rule. The convergence of two conditions prompted the grant of citizenship: Congress determined that the islands were strategically valuable to the United States; and Congress registered an independence movement on the island that could threaten colonial control. When Puerto Ricans demanded independence, Congress enveloped them in a bear hug that granted citizenship to weaken their movement. While citizenship was an attractive solution to many of the problems of colonial rule, there were strong objections within the United States to granting citizenship to a population considered to be nonwhite. As a result, Congress created a workaround by disentangling citizenship from statehood and from many of the rights and privileges that typically accompany it. Though citizenship is often associated with democracy and equality, American officials turned citizenship into a mechanism of control for the empire they were building. This work uncovers strategies of American territorial expansion and colonial governance and confronts deeply held notions about American citizenship and political community.

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The Empty Gift: Citizenship, Imperialism, and Political Development in Puerto Rico

Henning

2023

Stud. Am. Pol. Dev.

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“…This is because the front wheels are more loaded statically and also undergo much more torsional and side forces than the rear's. Moreover because of not exchanging the wheels every season (that means front with rear) the wear of the front wheels is more distinctive [5].…”

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Utilization of magnetic signature of automotive tire for exploitational wear assessment

Brol¹,

Warczek²

2022

Diagnostyka

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The use of tires is limited, on the one hand, by their geometric wear, which is interpreted by vehicle users as the tread height, on the other hand, as a result of aging processes. There is an intrinsic magnetic field around the tire. This specific feature of the tire can be interpreted as the magnetic pattern of the tire. The aim of the research was to determine the influence of operation on the distribution of magnetic induction around the tire. The tests were carried out on new tires and after a specific operational mileage. The obtained results in the form of spatial images of the distribution of the magnetic field force lines of new tires and after a specific operational mileage allowed to visualize the differences in their technical condition, which were not possible to observe using other research methods.

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The Expansion of Public Education in Puerto Rico after 1900

Curtis,

Uribe-Castro

2023

Roots of Underdevelopment

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Constructing a Colonial People

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The Empty Gift: Citizenship, Imperialism, and Political Development in Puerto Rico

The Empty Gift: Citizenship, Imperialism, and Political Development in Puerto Rico

Utilization of magnetic signature of automotive tire for exploitational wear assessment

The Expansion of Public Education in Puerto Rico after 1900

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