Researcher, Institute of Caribbean Studies, University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras Phone: 787-764-0000, x-87744 Address: Institute of Caribbean Studies Univ of Puerto Rico
This article consists of two parts, a chapter from Hubert
E. Edson’s memoirs Sugar, from Scarcity... more This article consists of two parts, a chapter from Hubert E. Edson’s memoirs Sugar, from Scarcity to Surplus (1958) on the establishment of the Haytian American Sugar Corporation (HASCO) during the U.S. military occupation which came as a result of the First World War, and an introduction by Humberto García-Muñiz offering mainly a social and business history background analysis to Edson’s and HASCO’s experiences in Haiti
The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1994
U.S. military policy in the Caribbean after the Cold War faces two nontraditional security threat... more U.S. military policy in the Caribbean after the Cold War faces two nontraditional security threats: drug trafficking and illegal migration. Haiti and Cuba are the worst possible scenarios. This policy is being formulated and furthered by the U.S. Atlantic Command in conjunction with regional security forces but without adequate civilian participation and public debate in the Caribbean. This policy contradicts stated U.S. goals of promoting democratic practices and institutions in the region. U.S. military policy in the Caribbean is analyzed within a historical context that divides the U.S. military presence—in terms of installations and armed forces—in the Caribbean during the twentieth century into five phases, with emphasis on the Cold War and its aftermath.
Page 1. LA POLITICA MILITAR DE ESTADOS UNIDOS EN EL CARIBE ANGLOPARLANTE 25 Apuntes sobre la polí... more Page 1. LA POLITICA MILITAR DE ESTADOS UNIDOS EN EL CARIBE ANGLOPARLANTE 25 Apuntes sobre la política militar de Estados Unidos en el Cari be angloparlante* En este trabajo presentamos unos apuntes sobre ...
El prop? sito de este ensayo es explorar los factores externos que est? n incidiendo en la redefi... more El prop? sito de este ensayo es explorar los factores externos que est? n incidiendo en la redefinici? n de los roles de las fuerzas armadas, asf como de algunos aspectos de la situaci? n estrat6gica de America Latina y el Caribe. Analizaremos el significado y las consecuencias regionales del cambio estrategico global que se ha venido configurando al concluir la Guerra Frfa, en particular lo que concierne a la intensa discusi? n sobre seguridad que se ha desarrollado en Estados Unidos en los Ultimos tres aflos asf como el ...
This article highlights the importance of sugar trade journals from the second half of the 19th c... more This article highlights the importance of sugar trade journals from the second half of the 19th century to the first of the 20th century. specifically the French-Le Journal des Fabricants de Sucre, the British - The Sugar Cane y the U.S.- Louisiana Planter and Sugar Manufacturer. Their coverage of Caribbean sugar production, processing and marketing (namely, the commodity chain) makes then an indispensable source for Caribbean sugar histories not usually consulted by historians. The paper centers on The Louisiana Planter as a case study by explaining its establishment and international expansion, clientele and its coverage of the Caribbean, particularly, Cuba, Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico but also with references to the British, Danish, Dutch and French Caribbean.
Caribbean Studies, Vol. 38, No. 2, Dignity and Economic Survival: Women in Latin American and the Caribbean and the Work of Helen I. Safa (July-December 2010), pp. 167- 184
CARIBBEAN STUDIES vol. 39, nos. 1-2 (Jan-Dec 2011), pp. 3-42.
These commemorative notes on the fiftieth anniversary of Caribbean Studies are an initial endeavo... more These commemorative notes on the fiftieth anniversary of Caribbean Studies are an initial endeavor to discuss academic journals published by universities in the Caribbean region. The first part deals with thedevelopment of higher education institutions and the creation of university-based academic journals in the Hispanic-and English-speaking Caribbean. The next section addresses the development of the first academic journals with a regional perspective—Caribbean Quarterly and Social and Economic Studies—until their becoming peer-reviewed journals. In the third part, the article centers on the origin and development of Caribbean Studies, including also a bibliometric analysis ofseveral aspects, such as the the origin of authors, fields of study, andothers. The essay closes with a rapid view of the present panorama of journals dedicated to the Caribbean and with a brief conclusion.
This article consists of two parts, a chapter from Hubert
E. Edson’s memoirs Sugar, from Scarcity... more This article consists of two parts, a chapter from Hubert E. Edson’s memoirs Sugar, from Scarcity to Surplus (1958) on the establishment of the Haytian American Sugar Corporation (HASCO) during the U.S. military occupation which came as a result of the First World War, and an introduction by Humberto García-Muñiz offering mainly a social and business history background analysis to Edson’s and HASCO’s experiences in Haiti
The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1994
U.S. military policy in the Caribbean after the Cold War faces two nontraditional security threat... more U.S. military policy in the Caribbean after the Cold War faces two nontraditional security threats: drug trafficking and illegal migration. Haiti and Cuba are the worst possible scenarios. This policy is being formulated and furthered by the U.S. Atlantic Command in conjunction with regional security forces but without adequate civilian participation and public debate in the Caribbean. This policy contradicts stated U.S. goals of promoting democratic practices and institutions in the region. U.S. military policy in the Caribbean is analyzed within a historical context that divides the U.S. military presence—in terms of installations and armed forces—in the Caribbean during the twentieth century into five phases, with emphasis on the Cold War and its aftermath.
Page 1. LA POLITICA MILITAR DE ESTADOS UNIDOS EN EL CARIBE ANGLOPARLANTE 25 Apuntes sobre la polí... more Page 1. LA POLITICA MILITAR DE ESTADOS UNIDOS EN EL CARIBE ANGLOPARLANTE 25 Apuntes sobre la política militar de Estados Unidos en el Cari be angloparlante* En este trabajo presentamos unos apuntes sobre ...
El prop? sito de este ensayo es explorar los factores externos que est? n incidiendo en la redefi... more El prop? sito de este ensayo es explorar los factores externos que est? n incidiendo en la redefinici? n de los roles de las fuerzas armadas, asf como de algunos aspectos de la situaci? n estrat6gica de America Latina y el Caribe. Analizaremos el significado y las consecuencias regionales del cambio estrategico global que se ha venido configurando al concluir la Guerra Frfa, en particular lo que concierne a la intensa discusi? n sobre seguridad que se ha desarrollado en Estados Unidos en los Ultimos tres aflos asf como el ...
This article highlights the importance of sugar trade journals from the second half of the 19th c... more This article highlights the importance of sugar trade journals from the second half of the 19th century to the first of the 20th century. specifically the French-Le Journal des Fabricants de Sucre, the British - The Sugar Cane y the U.S.- Louisiana Planter and Sugar Manufacturer. Their coverage of Caribbean sugar production, processing and marketing (namely, the commodity chain) makes then an indispensable source for Caribbean sugar histories not usually consulted by historians. The paper centers on The Louisiana Planter as a case study by explaining its establishment and international expansion, clientele and its coverage of the Caribbean, particularly, Cuba, Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico but also with references to the British, Danish, Dutch and French Caribbean.
Caribbean Studies, Vol. 38, No. 2, Dignity and Economic Survival: Women in Latin American and the Caribbean and the Work of Helen I. Safa (July-December 2010), pp. 167- 184
CARIBBEAN STUDIES vol. 39, nos. 1-2 (Jan-Dec 2011), pp. 3-42.
These commemorative notes on the fiftieth anniversary of Caribbean Studies are an initial endeavo... more These commemorative notes on the fiftieth anniversary of Caribbean Studies are an initial endeavor to discuss academic journals published by universities in the Caribbean region. The first part deals with thedevelopment of higher education institutions and the creation of university-based academic journals in the Hispanic-and English-speaking Caribbean. The next section addresses the development of the first academic journals with a regional perspective—Caribbean Quarterly and Social and Economic Studies—until their becoming peer-reviewed journals. In the third part, the article centers on the origin and development of Caribbean Studies, including also a bibliometric analysis ofseveral aspects, such as the the origin of authors, fields of study, andothers. The essay closes with a rapid view of the present panorama of journals dedicated to the Caribbean and with a brief conclusion.
English version of article in Eric Williams, El negro en el Caribe y otros textos. La Habana: Casa Las Américas, 2011, 2015
My concern in this article is to weave the history of James’s presence and
influence in Williams’... more My concern in this article is to weave the history of James’s presence and influence in Williams’s early education, intellectual development and political praxis from the 1920s until their falling out in the 1960s, a span of almost five decades.
Based on the First World War´s records and reports of the U.S. Office of the Alien Property Custo... more Based on the First World War´s records and reports of the U.S. Office of the Alien Property Custodian (OAPC) , this article analyzes its policy and actions toward German firms in Puerto Rico and New York, whose business operations were deemed to be inimical to the U.S. war effort. It traces the 19th and early 20th centuries’ transnational merchant culture and interaction of these German concerns, coming from Bremen and Hamburg via St. Thomas to Puerto Rico and New York. It examines the smooth transition of German firms from the Spanish to U.S. imperial hegemony. The liquidation of the German firm, Fritze, Lundt & Co., Sucs., in Puerto Rico did not mean the same for its New York counterpart, Muller, Schall & Co. Puerto Rican capitalists profited by their acquisition of assets put on sale by the OAPC. It also discusses the re-migration of the Fritze family and their contact with the Nazi government. [Key Words: First World War, Alien, German Business, Migration, New York, Puerto Rican Business]
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E. Edson’s memoirs Sugar, from Scarcity to Surplus (1958) on the establishment of the Haytian American Sugar Corporation (HASCO) during the U.S. military occupation which came as a result of the First World War, and an introduction by Humberto García-Muñiz offering mainly a social and business history background analysis to Edson’s and HASCO’s experiences in Haiti
E. Edson’s memoirs Sugar, from Scarcity to Surplus (1958) on the establishment of the Haytian American Sugar Corporation (HASCO) during the U.S. military occupation which came as a result of the First World War, and an introduction by Humberto García-Muñiz offering mainly a social and business history background analysis to Edson’s and HASCO’s experiences in Haiti
influence in Williams’s early education, intellectual development and political praxis from the 1920s until their falling out in the 1960s, a span of almost five decades.
Bremen and Hamburg via St. Thomas to Puerto Rico and New York. It examines the smooth transition of German firms from the Spanish to U.S. imperial hegemony. The liquidation of the German firm, Fritze, Lundt & Co., Sucs., in Puerto Rico did not mean the same for its New York counterpart, Muller, Schall & Co. Puerto Rican capitalists profited by their acquisition of assets put on sale by the OAPC. It also discusses
the re-migration of the Fritze family and their contact with the Nazi government.
[Key Words: First World War, Alien, German Business, Migration, New York, Puerto Rican Business]