Fantasy Island: Colonialism, Exploitation, and the Betrayal of Puerto Rico

Author:   Ed Morales
Publisher:   Bold Type Books
ISBN:  

9781645030751


Pages:   352
Publication Date:   30 October 2025
Format:   Paperback
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Fantasy Island: Colonialism, Exploitation, and the Betrayal of Puerto Rico


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Author:   Ed Morales
Publisher:   Bold Type Books
Imprint:   Bold Type Books
Dimensions:   Width: 13.60cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 20.80cm
Weight:   0.340kg
ISBN:  

9781645030751


ISBN 10:   164503075
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   30 October 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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""[An] eye-opening economic and political history... [Morales's] technical yet impassioned polemic will persuade those with a keen interest in the subject.""--Publishers Weekly ""Ambitious, intimidating, and beautiful...This book will be particularly important to readers with a connection to Puerto Rico and useful and thought-provoking to anyone else seeking to understand capitalism's past, present, and future.""--Library Journal ""Ed Morales has put together a compelling indictment of U.S. colonialism in Puerto Rico, based on journalistic and academic sources as well as his personal experiences as a New York-born Puerto Rican who cares deeply about his ancestral homeland. His work is an engaging, compassionate, well-documented, and crisply written analysis of the political, economic, and demographic downturn of the Island, after more than a decade of economic recession and almost two years since hurricane Maria.""--Jorge Duany, author of Puerto Rico ""The hurricanes, the debt, the depopulation. Ed Morales has written an urgent, fascinating, and impassioned portrait of Puerto Rico, the world's oldest colony.""--Daniel Immerwahr, author of How to Hide an Empire


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Ed Morales is the author of Latinx, The Latin Beat, and Living in Spanglish. His work has appeared in Rolling Stone, The New York Times, The Village Voice, and The Nation, among others. He is currently an adjunct professor at Columbia University's Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race. He lives in New York City.

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