With its huge windows framing the corpses on display, the morgue bore an uncomfortable resemblance to a department store.

As historian Déborah Berman Santana writes, the US is very much responsible for molding Puerto Rico’s economy to begin with.

Training skilled workers within a school system was a way to sell ordinary workers on the value of the industrial system and thwart union recruiting.

Procter & Gamble made its industrially produced soap the basis for a revival of an ancient craft, leading to a huge fad for soap carving.