Our America, a Hispanic history of the United States, Felipe Fernández-Armesto
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Our America, a Hispanic history of the United States, Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Our America
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
862222067
Responsibility statement
Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Sub title
a Hispanic history of the United States
Summary
Maps the influence of America's Hispanic past, from the explorers and conquistadors who helped colonize Puerto Rico and Florida, to the missionaries and rancheros who settled in California and the 20th-century resurgence in major cities like Chicago and Miami
Table Of Contents
FOREWORD / BY AMADEO PETITBO JUAN, DIRECTOR, FUNDACION RAFAEL DEL PINO -- Part One. ORIGINAL SINS -- The First Hispanic Colonization of What Is Now US Territory, c. 1505/1846 -- CHAPTER ONE. THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH -- The First Colonies in What Was To Be the United States, 1505/1598 -- CHAPTER TWO. THE CITIES OF CIBOLA -- The Colonial Midwest from the Mississippi to the Rockies, 1598/1798 -- CHAPTER THREE. THE PURSUIT OF KING ARTHUR -- The Shadow of "Anglo-" America, 1607/1784 -- CHAPTER FOUR. THE REALM OF QUEEN CALAFIA -- The Foundation of California and the Showdown with "Anglo-" America, c. 1766/1846 -- Part Two. THE EMPIRE OF EDEN -- The Expansion of "Anglo-" America and the Hispanic Retreat, c. 1846/1898 -- CHAPTER FIVE. THE CURSE OF ZORRO -- The Great Expropriation, 1846/1887 -- CHAPTER SIX. THE REVENGE OF MORONI -- The Triumph of "Anglo-" America, 1830/1898 -- Part Three. PARADISE REGAINED? : The Second Hispanic Colonization, c. 1898/2012 -- CHAPTER SEVEN. THE RETURN TO AZTLAN -- Americanization and Resistance in the Age of Countercolonization, c. 1898/1986 -- CHAPTER EIGHT. THE REPUBLIC OF HESPERUS -- The Remaking of the Hispanic United States, c. 1914/2012 -- CHAPTER NINE. RETROSPECT AND PROSPECT -- Why the United States "Is, " and Has To Be, a Latin American Country
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