Read the article and answer the following questions:
1-Explain how the present Hispanic population has a history of invasions and conquests before the nineteenth century.
2-What effects of change and liberation did the French Revolution create for the French and Hispanic Caribbean?
3-What controversial features does the author point out about the writing of U.S. history (as a result of an "imperial narrative") about its dominance over neighboring territories.
4-In what manner did dominion take place over the territories that belonged to France, Spain and Mexico?
5-Summarize important aspects about the facts and figures of the 1836 war.
6-Summarize important aspects about the facts and figures of the 1848 war.
7-Explain how the war of 1989 came about and its consequences for Cuba and Puerto Rico.
8-Explain in what way these wars strengthened the U.S. as a nineteenth century empire.