Table of Contents:
  • Nueve York: the back story / Mike Wallace
  • Permeable empires: commercial exchanges between New York and Spanish possessions before 1800 / Cathy Matson
  • Cubans in nineteenth-century New York: a story of sugar, war, and revolution / Lisandro Pérez
  • Puerto Ricans in "olde" Nueva York: migrant Colonias of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Virginia Sánchez Korrol
  • Notes on writing in Spanish in New York / Carmen Boullosa
  • Painters, politics, and pastries: how New York became a cultural crossroads of the Americas, 1848-99 / Katherine E. Manthorne
  • Blame it on Washington Irving: New York's discovery of the art and architecture of Spain / Richard L. Kagan
  • Art worlds of Nueva York / Edward J. Sullivan
  • The discovery of Spain in New York, Circa 1930 / James D. Fernández
  • Making Nueva York Moderna: Latin American art, the international avant-gardes, and the new school / Anna Indych-Lopez
  • Before Mambo time: New York Latin music in the early decades (1925-45) / Juan Flores.