A SYLLABUS OF Hispanic-American History BY WILLIAM WHATLEY PIERSON, Jr., Ph. D. PROFESSOR OF HISTORY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA [Illustration: printer logo] (THIRD EDITION) PRICE 50 CENTS PUBLISHED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA COPYRIGHT, 1916, 1920 by the UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA (Revised and Reprinted) INTRODUCTORY NOTE "In the establishment of the independence of Spanish America the United States have the deepest interest. I have no hesitation in asserting my firm belief that there is no question in the foreign policy of this country, which has ever arisen, or which I can conceive as ever occurring, in the decision of which we have had or can have so much at stake."--Henry Clay, _The Emancipation of South America_. This syllabus is designed primarily for the use of students of the University of North Carolina as a guide to the introductory study of Hispanic-American history. In it an effort has been made to provide for as general and comprehensive a study of Hispanic-American civilization as the time limits of a single one year's course would permit. In such a process, of course, selection and rejection of data were necessary. The student seeking to specialize will, therefore, find it possible and easy to elaborate and amplify each of the chapters and sections into which the outline has been divided. Despite such comprehensiveness as was mentioned, the writer has endeavored to emphasize the institutional and economic aspects. The necessity of elimination and the effort at emphasis have resulted in the relegation of political history, particularly that of the colonial period, to a position of comparatively less prominence and significance than some might expect. For this the writer must plead necessity.