Our America : a Hispanic history of the United States / Felipe FernaÌndez-Armesto.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

FOREWORD / BY AMADEO PETITBO JUAN, DIRECTOR, FUNDACION RAFAEL DEL PINO -- Part One. ORIGINAL SINS -- The First Hispanic Colonization of What Is Now US Territory, c. 1505/1846 -- CHAPTER ONE. THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH -- The First Colonies in What Was To Be the United States, 1505/1598 -- CHAPTER TWO. THE CITIES OF CIBOLA -- The Colonial Midwest from the Mississippi to the Rockies, 1598/1798 -- CHAPTER THREE. THE PURSUIT OF KING ARTHUR -- The Shadow of "Anglo-" America, 1607/1784 -- CHAPTER FOUR. THE REALM OF QUEEN CALAFIA -- The Foundation of California and the Showdown with "Anglo-" America, c. 1766/1846 -- Part Two. THE EMPIRE OF EDEN -- The Expansion of "Anglo-" America and the Hispanic Retreat, c. 1846/1898 -- CHAPTER FIVE. THE CURSE OF ZORRO -- The Great Expropriation, 1846/1887 -- CHAPTER SIX. THE REVENGE OF MORONI -- The Triumph of "Anglo-" America, 1830/1898 -- Part Three. PARADISE REGAINED? : The Second Hispanic Colonization, c. 1898/2012 -- CHAPTER SEVEN. THE RETURN TO AZTLAN -- Americanization and Resistance in the Age of Countercolonization, c. 1898/1986 -- CHAPTER EIGHT. THE REPUBLIC OF HESPERUS -- The Remaking of the Hispanic United States, c. 1914/2012 -- CHAPTER NINE. RETROSPECT AND PROSPECT -- Why the United States "Is," and Has To Be, a Latin American Country.