Papers by Humberto Garcia-Muniz
Revue D’ Histoire Haïtienne, L’occupation américaine d’Haïti (1915-1934), no 2, 2021, 83-95., 2021
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
Lynne Rienner Publishers eBooks, Apr 1, 2000
Duke University Press eBooks, Jul 15, 2011
The Journal of Commonwealth and comparative politics, Mar 1, 1989
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.
The Hispanic American Historical Review, 1990
Revista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals, 1986
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 ...
In this year of the bicentennial of Haiti's independence, this research note wants to attract att... more In this year of the bicentennial of Haiti's independence, this research note wants to attract attention towards the documental and pictorial holdings of the Alfred Nemours Collection of Haitian History, deposited in the Josefina del Toro Fulladosa Collection of the University of Puerto Rico's Library System at the Río Piedras Campus. It discusses several topics represented in the collection such as Saint Domingue's economy and society (including sugar technology and manumission), the life, work and death of Toussaint Louverture, Haitian francophilia, Ramón Emeterio Betances' vision of Louverture vis-à-vis Alexander Pétion and King Henri Christophe's and the Royal Prince Jacques-Victor-Henri's portraits painted by Richard Evans in 1816 viewed in the context of Christophe's anglophilia.
Caribbean Studies, 33 no. 1 (Jan.-Jun. 2005), pp. 2-19
In this year of the bicentennial of Haiti's independence, this research note wants to attract att... more In this year of the bicentennial of Haiti's independence, this research note wants to attract attention towards the documental and pictorial holdings of the Alfred Nemours Collection of Haitian History, deposited in the Josefina del Toro Fulladosa Collection of the University of Puerto Rico's Library System at the Río Piedras Campus. It discusses several topics represented in the collection such as Saint Domingue's economy and society (including sugar technology and manumission), the life, work and death of Toussaint Louverture, Haitian francophilia, Ramón Emeterio Betances' vision of Louverture vis-à-vis Alexander Pétion and King Henri Christophe's and the Royal Prince Jacques-Victor-Henri's portraits painted by Richard Evans in 1816 viewed in the context of Christophe's anglophilia.
Caribbean Studies, 1992
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 ...
Caribbean Studies, 2009
Brandeis). That was the start of an important collaboration and friendship. Not long after this R... more Brandeis). That was the start of an important collaboration and friendship. Not long after this Rafa invited Patricia Mohammed, Sonia Cuales and I to be founding members of the Caribbean Network on Studies of Masculinities, then housed at the HIV/AIDS Research and Education Center, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, under the directorship of Ineke Cunningham. This initiative brought into being one of the few intra-regional scholarly networks involving the Spanish-speaking and English-speaking Caribbean. Tangible results of these collaborations include an annotated bibliography on Caribbean masculinities and the publication Caribbean Masculinities:Working Papers edited by Rafael Ramírez, Víctor I. García Toro and Ineke Cunningham (2002), as well as individual collaboration among Network members on a number of projects. For example Rafa wrote the preface to the volume Interrogating Caribbean Masculinities (2004), which included papers written by other Network members-Linden Lewis, Antonio de Moya and Patricia Mohammed. I cherish the memories of the meetings of the Network held in Puerto Rico, St. Lucia, Dominican Republic and Trinidad and Tobago in which Rafa was always present-our debates, discussions and arguments were crucial at that time in developing the field in the Caribbean. His classic work Dime Capitán (1993) or What it Means to be a Man (1999), was a favourite on our course outlines in Gender Studies courses at the UWI, St. Augustine. The students reflected on the commonalities of Caribbean gender ideologies as they were able to relate totally to Rafa's conceptualization of Masculinities in Puerto Rico. In November 2006 I saw Rafa for the last time when I attended a small meeting called by Víctor García Toro at UPR-Río Piedras to revitalize the Network. I was extremely pleased to see Rafa and to be working with him once again although I knew at the time he was already quite ill. We will miss Rafa's humour, his dedication to Anthropology, to studies of Masculinities and to the Caribbean. In his memory we should all rededicate ourselves towards a pan-Caribbean scholarship and those of us in the Network towards making it a vital and living entity once again.
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.
The linkage of the Caribbean and the United States in the international sugar economy has been lo... more The linkage of the Caribbean and the United States in the international sugar economy has been long noted, specifically in connection with trade, technology and ownership. Yet the management aspect has been overlooked. This article attempts to redress this historical lacuna by analyzing the development of the Louisiana-Caribbean connection following the introduction of the central factory in that southern state and in the Hispanic and British Caribbean. As we will see, Louisiana-born and trained managerial, technical and skilled personnel, known as "sugar tramps," played key roles in the development of the Caribbean sugar industry until their substitution by locals well into the twentieth century. 1 The largest sugar factories were located in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. The South Porto Rico Sugar Company of New Jersey (SPRSCO/NJ), one of the most enterprising and innovative U.S. corporations in the region, will be used as a case study. Historical Context During the second half of the nineteenth century, sugar self-sufficiency by the United States seemed an attainable goal to government officials, sugar planters, and scientists. 2 During the Civil War, to counter the scarce cane sugar and molasses coming from the South, the Department of Agriculture started experiments with sugar beets. In 1876, a Louisiana cane planter wrote: "it is beyond a doubt that the United States could produce all the sugar needed for their consumption." 3 Dr. Harvey W. Wiley (1844-1930), appointed chief chemist of the Department of Agriculture in 1883 and a staunch believer in sugar self-sufficiency, pursued a three-pronged policy of promoting sugar production on the U.S. mainland, specifically sugar cane in Louisiana, sugar beet in the West, and 1
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Papers by Humberto Garcia-Muniz
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]