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Harvest of empire : a history of Latinos in America /
Includes chapters on Puerto Ricans, Mexicans, Cubans, Dominicans, Central Americans in general, Colombians, and Panamanians.
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New York :
Viking,
2000.
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Table of 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.