Harvest of Empire
by Juan González
We are here because you were there.
you've been asked what to do about immigration and thought: why is no one asking why people are coming?
⚡ Choose Your Route ⚡
Not sold directly on this site. Support indie bookstores with a new copy, or go sustainable with a used one.
Supports independent bookstores
Secondhand & sustainable
Reference price shown. Other editions may be available.
González is a journalist and co-founder of Democracy Now!, and Harvest of Empire is the historical argument you've needed: the last 150 years of U.S. intervention in Latin America created every major wave of Latinx migration to the United States. Country by country — Puerto Rico, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, El Salvador, Mexico — González traces the U.S. investments, backed coups, trade agreements, and proxy wars that destabilized governments and economies, then follows the people those decisions produced across the border. The book doesn't frame immigration as a crisis. It frames it as a consequence. Read this first so you understand the cause before you meet the people the cause created.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Themes
- True Cost of EmpireCapital Machinery
