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Subject(s)

• Hispanic Americans—History [Browse]
• Immigrants—United States—History [Browse]
• United States—Emigration and immigration—History [Browse]
• Latin America—Emigration and immigration—History [Browse]
• United States—Relations—Latin America [Browse]
• Latin America—Relations—United States [Browse]
• United States—Territorial expansion—History [Browse]
• United States—Ethnic relations [Browse]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-368) and index.

Contents

• pt. 1. 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)
• 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 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.

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ISBN

• 9780143119289
• 0143119281

LCCN

2011006880

OCLC

681497393

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