Geoff Burrows
Biographic Data
| ID | 695910 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Geoff Burrows |
| GIVEN NAMES | Geoff |
| FAMILY NAME | Burrows |
| SIGNATURE | BURROWS G |
| AFFILIATIONS | independent scholar |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Puerto Rico: A National History
Jorell Meléndez-Badillo's sweeping history of Puerto Rico offers readers a panoramic and personal account of the archipelago from pre-Columbian Taíno culture to the post–Hurricane Maria era of Bad Bunny. Mixing political and cultural lenses, Puerto Rico: A National History asks readers to ponder how Puerto Ricans have developed and sustained their own idea of the nation over the longue durée of their history. The answer, which will not surprise t…
The Caribbean Front in World War II: The Untold Story of U-Boats, Spies, and Economic Warfare, by José L. Bolívar Fresneda
Early Puerto Rican Cinema and Nation Building: National Sentiments, Transnational Realities, 1897-1940
Naida García-Crespo's superb study of the confluence of early Puerto Rican cinema and the development of nationalism should interest a wide set of readers in the history of early cinema, Puerto Rican and Caribbean studies, and Latin American intellectual discourse during the early twentieth century. It provides both an excellent historiography of silent and sound films produced on the island before World War II and a treatise on how the idea of t…
Concrete and Countryside: The Urban and the Rural in 1950s Puerto Rican Culture
Scholars of Latin America interested in the ways that policies promoting modernization and urbanization have affected popular culture will find much to offer in Carmelo Esterrich's analysis of Puerto Rican cultural production during the 1950s. As a Caribbean island with deep social and cultural connections to Latin America despite its colonial status within the US political system, Puerto Rico was used during the mid-twentieth century as both a l…
Rural Hydro-Electrification and the Colonial New Deal: Modernization, Experts, and Rural Life in Puerto Rico, 1935–1942
The Canecutters
The Canecutters
Rural Hydro-Electrification and the Colonial New Deal: Modernization, Experts, and Rural Life in Puerto Rico, 1935–1942
Concrete and Countryside: The Urban and the Rural in 1950s Puerto Rican Culture
Scholars of Latin America interested in the ways that policies promoting modernization and urbanization have affected popular culture will find much to offer in Carmelo Esterrich's analysis of Puerto Rican cultural production during the 1950s. As a Caribbean island with deep social and cultural connections to Latin America despite its colonial status within the US political system, Puerto Rico was used during the mid-twentieth century as both a l…
Early Puerto Rican Cinema and Nation Building: National Sentiments, Transnational Realities, 1897-1940
Naida García-Crespo's superb study of the confluence of early Puerto Rican cinema and the development of nationalism should interest a wide set of readers in the history of early cinema, Puerto Rican and Caribbean studies, and Latin American intellectual discourse during the early twentieth century. It provides both an excellent historiography of silent and sound films produced on the island before World War II and a treatise on how the idea of t…
The Caribbean Front in World War II: The Untold Story of U-Boats, Spies, and Economic Warfare, by José L. Bolívar Fresneda
Puerto Rico: A National History
Jorell Meléndez-Badillo's sweeping history of Puerto Rico offers readers a panoramic and personal account of the archipelago from pre-Columbian Taíno culture to the post–Hurricane Maria era of Bad Bunny. Mixing political and cultural lenses, Puerto Rico: A National History asks readers to ponder how Puerto Ricans have developed and sustained their own idea of the nation over the longue durée of their history. The answer, which will not surprise t…
Political science (6 works) · Cuban History and Society (5 works) · Geography (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Colonialism (3 works) · History (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Economic growth (2 works) · Ethnology (2 works) · Modernization theory (2 works)