The United States and the Development of the Puerto Rican Status Question, 1936-1968

Bhana, Surendra, The United States and the Development of the Puerto Rican Status Question, 1936-1968, Wichita: University Press of Kansas, 1975.

Reviewed in Latin American Research Review © 1980.
Reviewed in The Hispanic American Historical Review © 1976.

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This study traces the evolution of political autonomy in Puerto Rico from 1936 to recent times, with special emphasis on the events that led to the creation of the Commonwealth in 1952.
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Surendra Bhana was born in India in 1939 and moved to south Africa in 1948. He holds degrees from the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and the University of South Africa, Pretoria. He received the MA and PhD from the University of Kansas, where he won the George L. Anderson Award for Excellence in History. He is presently a lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Durban-Westville in South Africa.