6. The ten year war; the problem of reform. 7. The Spanish-American War; status of Cuba after the peace. 8. American occupation; the Platt Amendment. 9. Republican government in Cuba; interventions by the United States; diplomatic and economic relations with the United States. Readings: Callahan, _Cuba and International Relations_; Leroy-Beaulieu, 251-268; Cabrera, _Cuba and the Cubans_; Porter, _Industrial Cuba_; Lindsay, _Cuba and her People of Today_; Quesada, _The War in Cuba_; Guiteras, _Historia de la Isla de Cuba_; Ramon de la Sagra, _Historia de la Isla de Cuba_ (13t); Canini, _Four Centuries of Spanish Rule in Cuba_; Johnson, _The History of Cuba_ (5v); Hill, _Cuba and Porto Rico_. B. Haiti and Santo Domingo: 1. Monarchy and republicanism in Haiti and Santo Domingo. 2. Social and racial problems. 3. Political disorders. 4. International relations: a. Financial conditions; foreign claims. b. Interventions. c. Relations of Santo Domingo and the United States. d. Haiti and the United States. 5. Attitude toward the United States. 6. Contemporary government and politics. Readings: Fiske, _West Indies_; Eves, _West Indies_; St. John, _Haiti, the Black Republic_; Schoenrich, _Santo Domingo_; Hazard, _Santo Domingo, Past and Present_; Hollander, _Report on the Debt of Santo Domingo_ (Sen. Ex. Document, 59th Cong.); Garcia, _Compendio de la Historia de Santo Domingo_. 8. Panama: a. Secessionist tendencies in Panama. b. The revolution. c. The republic. d. Relations with Colombia and the United States. Required Readings: Bishop, _Panama, Past and Present_; Gause and Carr, _The Story of Panama_; Bunau-Varilla, _Panama; the Creation, Destruction and Resurrection_; Villegas, _The Republic of Panama_. Readings in general for political history: Dawson, _The South American Republics_; Akers, _History of South America_; Dodd, _Modern Constitutions_; Rodriguez, _American Constitutions_; Sweet, _History of Latin America_; Koebel, _South America_; Garcia Calderon, _Latin-America_, 86-231; _Cambridge Modern History_, XII, 672-689; Domville-Fife, _Great States of South America_; Enock, _The Republics of Central and South America_; Porter, _The Ten Republics_; Colmo, _Los paises de la America latina_; Amunategui, _Ensayos biographicos_ (4v); Shepherd, _Hispanic Nations of the New World_. =Chapter IX. Relations with One Another and with Europe.= 1. Boundary disputes and commissions; the principle of _uti possedetis_. 2. Filibustering expeditions and reprisals.