Author : Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Release : 2014-01-20
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 854/5 ( reviews)

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Our America: A Hispanic History of the United States - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Our America: A Hispanic History of the United States write by Felipe Fernández-Armesto. This book was released on 2014-01-20. Our America: A Hispanic History of the United States available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “A rich and moving chronicle for our very present.” —Julio Ortega, New York Times Book Review The United States is still typically conceived of as an offshoot of England, with our history unfolding east to west beginning with the first English settlers in Jamestown. This view overlooks the significance of America’s Hispanic past. With the profile of the United States increasingly Hispanic, the importance of recovering the Hispanic dimension to our national story has never been greater. This absorbing narrative begins with the explorers and conquistadores who planted Spain’s first colonies in Puerto Rico, Florida, and the Southwest. Missionaries and rancheros carry Spain’s expansive impulse into the late eighteenth century, settling California, mapping the American interior to the Rockies, and charting the Pacific coast. During the nineteenth century Anglo-America expands west under the banner of “Manifest Destiny” and consolidates control through war with Mexico. In the Hispanic resurgence that follows, it is the peoples of Latin America who overspread the continent, from the Hispanic heartland in the West to major cities such as Chicago, Miami, New York, and Boston. The United States clearly has a Hispanic present and future. And here is its Hispanic past, presented with characteristic insight and wit by one of our greatest historians.