Synopses & Reviews
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.
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"With a lucid, engaging style, [Fernández-Armesto] seeks to understand the continuity between the Spanish colonization and the fight for justice led by the Chicano movement in the sixties and by immigration advocates today...This is an invitation to look at America in full!" Ilan Stavans, general editor of The Norton Anthology of Latino History
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"In enviably lyrical prose, Felipe Fernández-Armesto has written a bold and compelling synthesis of our nation's Hispanic past, from the Spanish arrival in the late fifteenth century to the current and contentious debate over immigration reform. Marshaling famous and forgotten individuals and events, he reminds us that there is much more to America's story than simply Massachusetts Pilgrims and Virginia Cavaliers." Andrew R. Graybill, director, Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University
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"A rich and moving chronicle .... Perhaps the first history to make the case for this nation's becoming a bright Latin American country." Julio Ortega
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"Exceedingly well-written and engaging." New York Times Book Review
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"Triumphantly rescues Hispanic America from obscurity." Hector Tobar Los Angeles Times
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"Starred review. A learned, wide-ranging, and delightfully written book, [Our America] . . . is responsible revisionist history at its very best and deserves the widest possible attention." The Economist
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"A valuable contribution to those seeking a broader understanding of U.S. history." The Economist
About the Author
Felipe Fernández-Armesto, the William P. Reynolds Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame, is the author of Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration and Our America: A Hispanic History of the United States. He lives in South Bend, Indiana, and London.