Harvest of empire : a history of Latinos in America / Juan Gonzalez.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Penguin Books, 2011Edition: Revised editionDescription: xxiv, 392 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780143119289
- 0143119281
- Hispanic Americans -- History
- Immigrants -- United States -- History
- United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History
- Latin America -- Emigration and immigration -- History
- United States -- Relations -- Latin America
- Latin America -- Relations -- United States
- United States -- Territorial expansion -- History
- United States -- Ethnic relations
- 973/.0468 22
- E184.S75 G655 2011
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-368) and index.
pt. 1. Roots (Las ra�ices). Conquerors and victims : the image of America forms (1500-1800) -- The Spanish borderlands and the making of an empire (1810-1898) -- Banana republics and bonds : taming the empire's backyard (1898-1950) -- pt. 2. Branches (Las ramas). Puerto Ricans : citizens yet foreigners -- Mexicans : pioneers of a different type -- Cubans : special refugees -- Dominicans : from the Duarte to the George Washington Bridge -- Central Americans : intervention comes home to roost -- Colombians and Panamanians : overcoming division and disdain -- pt. 3. Harvest (La cosecha). The return of Juan Segu�in : Latinos and the remaking of American politics -- Immigrants old and new : closing borders of the mind -- Speak Spanish, you're in America! : El Hurac�an over language and culture -- Free trade : the final conquest of Latin America -- Puerto Rico, U.S.A. : possessed and unwanted.
Presents a history of Latinos in America, from the first colonies in the New World through today, and offers portraits of distinguished Americans of Hispanic descent that have played a key role in the evolving face of American life.
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