A Syllabus of Hispanic-American History

Name: A Syllabus of Hispanic-American History
Author: Pierson, William Whatley, Jr.

Pierson, William Whatley, Jr.

Latin America -- History -- Outlines, syllabi, etc.

4. Depots and staple cities; fairs.

         5. Means of transportation in colonial Spanish America.

         6. The _Consulado_; guilds; _cofradias_.

         7. Trade companies:

             The Guipuzcoa company, 1728-1778.

         8. The War of Spanish Succession; Treaty of Utrecht.

         9. The Anglo-Spanish relations at Porto Bello.

         10. Obstacles to success of system:

             a. Smuggling.

             b. Buccaneers, pirates, and public enemies.

         11. Final changes in system, 1740, 1748, 1765, 1778; work of
         Charles III, Aranda, and Galvez.

         12. Portuguese trade regulations.

     Required Readings: Shepherd, 43-47; Bourne, 282-301; Morris,
     260-277; Moses, _Spanish Dependencies_, Vol. II, 244-365;
     Cambridge Modern History, Vol. X, 254-257; Keller, 226-241;
     244-249; Smith, 248-254; Priestley, _Reforms of Jose de Galvez
     in New Spain_ (The Pacific Ocean in History); Mimms, _Colbert's
     West India Policy_; Koebel, _British Exploits in South
     America_, 47-98; Haring, _The Buccaneers in the West Indies in
     the Seventeenth Century_; Colmeiro, II, 401-463; Alberdi,
     _Estudios Economicos_, 100-101.

     Additional Readings: Blackmar, _Spanish Institutions in the
     Southwest_; Stevens, _Spanish Rule of Trade in the West
     Indies_; Esquemeling, _History of the Buccaneers_; Rubalcava,
     _Tratado Historico Politico y Legal del Commercio_; Walton,
     _Spanish Colonies_, Vol. II, 153-181.

     H. The Colonial Taxation System.

         1. The sources of revenue.

         2. Taxes: _Alcabala_; _Armada_ and _armadilla_; _media anata_;
         royal ninths; Indian tribute; taxes on: salt; mineral products;
         tobacco.

         3. Sale of offices.

     Readings: Moses, _South America on the Eve of Emancipation_,
     328-339.

     I. Education and Thought.

         1. The universities.

             Institutions established at Lima, Mexico City, Bogota,
             Cordoba, Cuzco, Caracas, Santiago de Chile, Quito, etc.

         2. The clergy and education.

         3. Colonial literature:

             a. Clerical influences.

             b. Early tendencies and schools.

             c. Writers: Zumarraga, Las Casas, Ercilla, Balbuena, Juana
             Ines de la Cruz, Espejo.

         4. The press.

         5. Transplantation of European civilization:

             Language; customs; education; religion; political theories
             and institutions.

         6. Cultural influence of colonies upon Spain and Europe.

     Required Readings: Shepherd, 59-68; Moses, _South America on
     the Eve of Emancipation_, 143-166; Coester, _The Literary
     History of Spanish America_, 1-38.

     Additional Readings: Humboldt, _Personal Narrative of Travels_;
     Ingenieros, _La Revolucion_, 29-78; Bunge, _Nuestra America_.

     J. Political History.

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

A Syllabus of Hispanic-American History

No reviews yet