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.

Readings: Shepherd, 81-96; Garcia Calderon, 100-350;
     Crichfield, _American Supremacy_; Alberdi, _Bases ..._; ----,
     _Estudios economicos_; ----, _Del Gobierno en Sud America_;
     Sarmiento, _El Facundo_; Lastarria, _Lecciones de politica
     positiva en la Academia de bellas letras_; Balbin de Unquera,
     _Andres Bello, su epoca y sus obras_; books on individual
     countries.


=Chapter VIII. Political History, 1826-1920; Political Heritage of
Colonial Times.=

         1. The three phases:

             a. 1826-1850, Age of Dictators.

             b. 1850-1876, Struggle for Stability.

             c. 1876----, Rise of Great States and Economic Progress.

         2. Typical dictators:

             a. Garcia Moreno,--Ecuador.

             b. Ramon Castilla,--Peru.

             c. Rosas,--Argentina.

             d. Paez and Guzman Blanco,--Venezuela.

             e. Santa Anna and Diaz,--Mexico.

         3. Progressive States of South America:

             A. Argentina:

                 1. The presidency of Rivadavia; War with Brazil;
                 conflict between Buenos Aires and provinces.

                 2. Rosas and Urquiza.

                 3. Mitre and Sarmiento.

                 4. Political program and stability; President Roca.

                 5. Economic development and growth of population.

                 6. The southward movement in Argentina.

                 7. Contemporary government and politics.

     Suggested Readings: Koebel, _Argentina, Past and Present_;
     ----, _The South Americans_; Hirst, _Argentina_; Hammerton,
     _The Real Argentine_; Chandler, _The Argentine Southward
     Movement_, (Bulletin Pan. Am. Un., 1914).

     Additional Readings: Martinez and Lewandowski, _Argentina in
     the Twentieth Century_; Merou, _Historia de la Republica
     Argentina_; V. F. Lopez, _Historia de la Republica Argentina_
     (Vols IX and X).

             B. Brazil.

                 1. Brazil and Portugal, 1807-1822.

                 2. The empire: Pedro I and Pedro II.

                 3. Economic development; international relations.

                 4. Emancipation of slaves.

                 5. The Republic: early disorders; progress toward
                 stability.

                 6. The westward movement in Brazil.

                 7. Colonization experiments--State and National.

                 8. Contemporary government and politics.

     Readings: Denis, _Brasil_; Watson, Vol. II, 256-270; _Cambridge
     Modern History_, Vol. X, 310-339; Vol. XII, 674-676; Varnhagen,
     Vol. II; Pinheiro, _Historia do Brasil_; Bennett, _Forty Years
     in Brazil_; Buley, _North Brazil_; ----, _South Brasil_;
     Winter, _Brazil and her people of today_; Domville-Fife, _The
     United States of Brasil_; Grossi, _Storia della Colonizazione
     Europea al Brasile_.

             C. Chile:

                 1. Dictatorship of O'Higgins.

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A Syllabus of Hispanic-American History

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