<NUEVA YORK(1613-1945)>: The population of New York City is approaching the milestone of being one-third Hispanic, a demographic transformation that will have a huge impact on the city's culture, daily life and its very future. This marks a new phase in New York's relations to the Hispanic world, as Latino cultures and the Spanish language become an ubiquitous and important presence in the city. The roots of this transformation run deep. The history of the city's ties to the Spanish-speaking world is as old as New Amsterdam itself, and is largely unknown. Accompanying a major exhibition organised by the New York Historical Society and El Museo del Barrio (an abbreviated version of which will travel through the United States), this groundbreaking, interdisciplinary publication will for the first time make visible these connections and the myriad ways in which they have shaped the city for more than four centuries.

FOREWORD

Louise Mirrer

PREFACE

Marci Reaven

INTRODUGTION

Edward J. Sullivan

NuevA York: The Back Story

Mike Wallace

Permeable Empires: Gommercial Exchanges between

New York and Spanish Possessions before 1800

Cathy Matson

Gubans in Nineteenth-Gentury New York: A Story of Sugar,

War, and Revolution

Lisandro Perez

Puerto Ricans in "Olde" Nueva York: Migrant Colonias of the

Nineteenth and Twentieth Genturies

Virginia Sanchez 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 oFSpain

Richard L. Kagan

Art Worlds of Nueva York

Edward J. Sullivan

The Discovery of'Spain in New York, Girca 1980

James D. Fernandez

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 (199-5-45)

Juan Flores

Contributor Biographies

Selected Bibliography

Index