Includes bibliographical references and index.

FOREWORD / BY AMADEO PETITBÒ JUAN, DIRECTOR, FUNDACIÓN 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, c. 1505-1763 -- CHAPTER TWO. THE CITIES OF CÍBOLA -- The Colonial Midwest from the Mississippi to the Rockies, c. 1598-1798 -- CHAPTER THREE. THE PURSUIT OF KING ARTHUR -- The Shadow of Anglo-America, c. 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, c. 1846-1887 -- CHAPTER SIX. THE REVENGE OF MORONI -- The Triumph of Anglo-America, c. 1830-1898 -- Part Three. PARADISE REGAINED? : The Second Hispanic Colonization, c. 1898-2012 -- CHAPTER SEVEN. THE RETURN TO AZTLÁN -- Americanization and Resistance in the Age of Mexican 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.