Juan gonzalez harvest of empire biography

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Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America (Book)

Juan Gonzalez describes his book in an interview on Democracy Now!:

“[T]he central theme of Harvest of Empire is that. . . you cannot understand the enormous Latino presence in the United States unless you understand America’s role in Latin America, and in fact that the Latino presence in the country is the harvest of the empire. It is the result of more than a century of domination of many of these countries. And in fact, those countries that were most dominated by the United States are the ones that have sent the most migrants to this country. And Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, [El] Salvador, Guatemala, these are the countries that have provided the bulk of the migration from Latin America, largely many of them fleeing from the civil wars, as in the cases of Guatemala and Nicaragua and El Salvador, in which the United States government played a key role in backing one side or the other, others coming here as a result of the needs of American businesses that established migration and recruiting, actually recruited people to come here to fill jobs — that’s more so in the case of the Puerto Ricans and the Mexicans. And so, in essence . . . the mass migration flows of Latin Amer

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CHAPTER ONE

Harvest of Empire
A History of Latinos in America
By JUAN GONZALEZ
Viking

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Conquerors and Victims:
The Image of America Forms
(1500-1800)

We saw cues and shrines in these cities that looked like gleaming
white towers and castles: a marvelous site.

--Bernal Díaz del Castillo, 1568

The arrival of European explorers to America began the most astounding and far-reaching encounter between cultures in the history of civilization. It brought together two portions of the human race that until then had known nothing of each other's existence, thus establishing the basic identity of our modern world. French writer and critic Tzvetan Todorov has called it "the discovery self makes of the other"; while Adam Smith labeled it one of "the two greatest and most important events recorded in the history of mankind."

Of the Europeans who settled America, those who hailed from England and Spain had the greatest impact. Both transplanted their cultures over vast territories. Both created colonial empires from whose abundance Europe rose to dominate the world. And descendants of both eventually launched independence wars that remade the political systems of our planet.

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July 5, 2019

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