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Harvest of empire : a history of Latinos in America / Juan Gonzalez.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks E184.S75 G655 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- González, Juan, 1947-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hispanic Americans--History.
- Hispanic Americans.
- Immigrants--United States--History.
- Immigrants.
- United States--Emigration and immigration--History.
- United States.
- Latin America--Emigration and immigration--History.
- Latin America.
- United States--Relations--Latin America.
- Latin America--Relations--United States.
- United States--Territorial expansion--History.
- United States--Ethnic relations.
- United States--Immigration and emigration--History.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Ethnic relations.
- International relations.
- Territorial expansion.
- Genre:
- Nonfiction.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 346 pages : maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Viking, 2000.
- Summary:
- Includes chapters on Puerto Ricans, Mexicans, Cubans, Dominicans, Central Americans in general, Colombians, and Panamanians.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-324) and index.
- Local Notes:
- The Balch Institute Library and Archives.
- ISBN:
- 0670867209
- 9780670867202
- OCLC:
- 42002545
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