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  1. May 9, 2019 · J. H. Elliott (1930–2022) was Regius Professor Emeritus of Modern History at Oxford. His books include The Revolt of the Catalans: A Study in the Decline of Spain, 1598–1640, Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492–1830, and Scots and Catalans: Union and Disunion. . (March 2022)

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    • The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros. “Not only was it the first time I realized I was not alone in feeling like a misfit with my Mexican-American duality, but that it was OK, and that I could do great things not despite, but because of it.”
  2. Mar 5, 2019 · Robert Goodwin. 3.74. 125 ratings16 reviews. An epic history of the Spanish empire in North America from 1493 to 1898 by Robert Goodwin, author of Spain: The Centre of the World. At the conclusion of the American Revolution, half the modern United States was part of the vast Spanish Empire. The year after Columbus's great voyage of discovery ...

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  3. Mar 5, 2019 · A deeper history on the discovery/formation of Puerto Rico, Florida, New Mexico, Arizona, the Baja, California, Texas, Louisiana, and Mexico within the greater totality of Spanish North America through the brutal pacification of the native populations, scouring for gold, the Spanish liberally financing their own ventures and using people as slaves/guides/converts, depicting native myth and ...

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  4. Feb 18, 2024 · 100 Best Books of the 21st Century: As voted on by 503 novelists, nonfiction writers, poets, critics and other book lovers — with a little help from the staff of The New York Times Book Review.

  5. Jan 17, 2014 · Jan. 17, 2014. In “Our America,” Felipe Fernández-­Armesto, a British historian of Spanish heritage at the University of Notre Dame, recasts the pilgrimage of Hispanics in the United States ...

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  7. May 4, 2014 · If the author’s aim in Our America – a title evocative of, among the many other works that inform the book, José Martí’s famous essay “Nuestra America” (1891) – is to remind us that “Hispanics belong in the entire story of the country – as part of its origins and part of every important episode in its unfolding”, then he certainly succeeds. While his shouldn’t be a ...

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