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Harvest of empire : a history of Latinos in America /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: González, Juan, 1947-
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Penguin Books, 2011.
Edition:Rev. ed.
Subjects:
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.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Roots (Las raíces). 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)
  • Part II. 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
  • Part III. Harvest (La cosecha). The return of Juan Seguín : Latinos and the remaking of American politics ; Immigrants old and new : closing borders of the mind ; Speak Spanish, you're in America! : El Huracán over language and culture ; Free trade : the final conquest of Latin America ; Puerto Rico, U.S.A. : possessed and unwanted
  • Epilogue
  • Glossary.