“Colonialism, Planters, Sugarcane, and The Agrarian Economy of Caguas, Puerto Rico Between the Age of Empire, 1890s and 1930,”

This article presents new research on the impact and consequences of the incorporation of Puerto Rico into the American economic sphere of influence and how much change truly took place during the first decades of the twentieth century. As reconstructed here, Puerto Rico’s social and economic structure did change after the American invasion.