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Title: The Hispanic Nations of the New World
Volume 50 in The Chronicles Of America Series
Author: William R. Shepherd
Editor: Allen Johnson
Posting Date: February 1, 2009 [EBook #3042]
Release Date: January, 2002
Language: English
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*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE HISPANIC NATIONS ***
Produced by The James J. Kelly Library Of St. Gregory's
University, Dianne Bean, Joseph Buersmeyer, and Alev Akman
THE HISPANIC NATIONS OF THE NEW WORLD,
A CHRONICLE OF OUR SOUTHERN NEIGHBORS
By William R. Shepherd
New Haven: Yale University Press
Toronto: Glasgow, Brook & Co.
London: Humphrey Milford
Oxford University Press
1919
CONTENTS
I. THE HERITAGE FROM SPAIN AND PORTUGAL
II. "OUR OLD KING OR NONE"
III. "INDEPENDENCE OR DEATH"
IV. PLOUGHING THE SEA
V. THE AGE OF THE DICTATORS
VI. PERIL FROM ABROAD
VII. GREATER STATES AND LESSER
VIII. "ON THE MARGIN OF INTERNATIONAL LIFE"
IX. THE REPUBLICS OF SOUTH AMERICA
X. MEXICO IN REVOLUTION
XI. THE REPUBLICS OF THE CARIBBEAN
XII. PAN-AMERICANISM AND THE GREAT WAR
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
THE HISPANIC NATIONS OF THE NEW WORLD
CHAPTER I. THE HERITAGE FROM SPAIN AND PORTUGAL
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 empire mankind had ever yet known rivaled in size the illimitable
domains of Spain and Portugal in the New World; and none displayed such
remarkable contrasts in land and people. Boundless plains and forests,
swamps and deserts, mighty mountain chains, torrential streams and
majestic rivers, marked the surface of the country. This vast territory
stretched from the temperate prairies west of the Mississippi down to
the steaming lowlands of Central America, then up through tablelands in
the southern
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