South American Republics, Part I

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Early Modern, Modern (19th C)

Authors: Thomas Cleland Dawson In Year : 1903

Book Language: English

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INTRODUCTORY: THE DISCOVERIES AND THE CONQUEST part 1
INTRODUCTORY: THE DISCOVERIES AND THE CONQUEST part 2
ARGENTINA I: THE ARGENTINE LAND
ARGENTINA II: THE SPANISH COLONIAL SYSTEM
ARGENTINA III: THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
ARGENTINA IV. THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
ARGENTINA V. THE BEGINNINGS OF THE REVOLUTION
ARGENTINA VI. COMPLETION OF THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE
ARGENTINA VII. THE ERA OF CIVIL WARS
ARGENTINA VIII. CONSOLIDATION
ARGENTINA IX. THE MODERN ARGENTINE
PARAGUAY I. PARAGUAY UNTIL 1632
PARAGUAY II. THE JESUIT REPUBLIC AND COLONIAL PARAGUAY
PARAGUAY III. FRANCIA'S REIGN
PARAGUAY IV. THE REIGN OF THE ELDER LOPEZ
PARAGUAY V. THE WAR
PARAGUAY VI. PARAGUAY SINCE 1870
URUGUAY I. INTRODUCTION
URUGUAY II. PORTUGUESE AGGRESSIONS AND THE SETTLEMENT OF THE COUNTRY
URUGUAY III. THE REVOLUTION
URUGUAY IV. INDEPENDENCE AND CIVIL WAR
URUGUAY V. CIVIL WAR AND ARGENTINE INTERVENTION
URUGUAY VI. COLORADOS AND BLANCOS
BRAZIL I. PORTUGAL
BRAZIL II. DISCOVERY
BRAZIL III. DESCRIPTION
BRAZIL IV. EARLY COLONISATION
BRAZIL V. THE JESUITS
BRAZIL VI. FRENCH OCCUPATION OF RIO
BRAZIL VII. EXPANSION
BRAZIL VIII. THE DUTCH CONQUEST
BRAZIL IX. EXPULSION OF THE DUTCH
BRAZIL X. THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
BRAZIL XI. GOLD DISCOVERIES—REVOLTS—FRENCH ATTACKS
BRAZIL XII. THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
BRAZIL XIII. THE PORTUGUESE COURT IN RIO
BRAZIL XIV. INDEPENDENCE
BRAZIL XV. REIGN OF PEDRO I.
BRAZIL XVI. THE REGENCY
BRAZIL XVII. PEDRO II.
BRAZIL XVIII. EVENTS OF 1849 TO 1864
BRAZIL XIX. THE PARAGUAYAN WAR
BRAZIL XX. REPUBLICANISM AND EMANCIPATION
BRAZIL XXI. THE REVOLUTION—THE DICTATORSHIP—THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE REPUBLIC

The question most frequently asked me since I began my stay in South America has been: "Why do they have so many revolutions there?" Possibly the events recounted in the following pages may help the reader to answer this for himself. I hope that he will share my conviction that militarism has already definitely disappeared from more than half the continent and is slowly becoming less powerful in the remainder. Constitutional traditions, inherited from Spain and Portugal, implanted a tendency toward disintegration; Spanish and Portuguese tyranny bred in the people a distrust of all rulers and governments; the war of independence brought to the front military adventurers; civil disorders were inevitable, and the search for forms of government that should be final and stable has been very painful. On the other hand, the generous impulse that prompted the movement toward independence has grown into an earnest desire for ordered liberty, which is steadily spreading among all classes. Civic capacity is increasing among the body of South Americans and immigration is raising the industrial level. They are slowly evolving among themselves the best form of government for their special needs and conditions.

It is hard to secure from the tangle of events called South American history a clearly defined picture. At the risk of repetition I have tried to tell separately the story of each country, because each has its special history and its peculiar characteristics. All of these states have, however, had much in common and it is only in the case of the larger nations that social and political conditions have been described in detail. (Fragment of the Preface)

See the original text for the bibliography and numerous illustrations.