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At the time of the American Revolution most of the New World still belonged to Spain and Portugal, whose captains and conquerors had been the first to come to its shores. Spain had the lion's share, but Portugal held Brazil, in itself a vast land of unsuspected resources. No e...
Even so huge and conservative a country as Brazil could not start out upon the pathway of republican freedom without some unrest; but the political experience gained under a reg...
5. CHAPTER V. THE AGE OF THE DICTATORSIndependence without liberty and statehood without respect for law are phrases which sum up the situation in Spanish America after the failure of Bolivar's "great design." The o...
7. CHAPTER VII. GREATER STATES AND LESSERDuring the half century that had elapsed since 1826, the nations of Hispanic America had passed through dark ages. Their evolution had always been accompanied by growing pains a...
3. CHAPTER III "INDEPENDENCE OR DEATHThe restoration of Ferdinand VII to his throne in 1814 encouraged the liberals of Spain, no less than the loyalists of Spanish America, to hope that the "old King" would now gra...
4. CHAPTER IV. PLOUGHING THE SEAWhen the La Plata Congress at Tucuman took the decisive action that severed the bond with Spain, it uttered a prophecy for all Spanish America. To quote its language: "Vast and...
2. CHAPTER II. "OUR OLD KING OR NONEThe movement which led eventually to the emancipation of the colonies differed from the local uprisings which occurred in various parts of South America during the eighteenth ce...
8. CHAPTER VIII. "ON THE MARGIN OF INTERNATIONAL LIFEDuring the period from 1889 to 1907 two incidents revealed the standing that the republics of Hispanic America had now acquired in the world at large. In 1889 at Washington, and...
10. CHAPTER X. MEXICO IN REVOLUTIONWhen, in 1910, like several of its sister republics, Mexico celebrated the centennial anniversary of its independence, the era of peace and progress inaugurated by Porfirio Diaz...
12. CHAPTER XII. PAN-AMERICANISM AND THE GREAT WARWhile the Hispanic republics were entering upon the second century of their independent life, the idea of a certain community of interests between themselves and the United Stat...
11. CHAPTER XI. THE REPUBLICS OF THE CARIBBEANThe course of events in certain of the republics in and around the Caribbean Sea warned the Hispanic nations that independence was a relative condition and that it might vary in...
6. CHAPTER VI. PERIL FROM ABROADApart from the spoliation of Mexico by the United States, the independence of the Hispanic nations had not been menaced for more than thirty years. Now comes a period in which t...
1. CHAPTER I. THE HERITAGE FROM SPAIN AND PORTUGALAt the time of the American Revolution most of the New World still belonged to Spain and Portugal, whose captains and conquerors had been the first to come to its shores. Spain...