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.

3. The status of Uruguay.

         4. The war against Paraguay.

         5. The Chile-Peru-Bolivia war; the Tacna-Arica question.

         6. International standing of Latin America.

         7. The problem of unity:

             a. Proposals for a league of states of Spanish origin.

             b. Proposals for inclusion of Brazil in this league.

             c. Congresses of Hispanic-American countries: Panama
            (1826), Lima (1848, 1864, 1897), Santiago de Chile (1856).

             d. Programmes of arbitration; proposals for codification of
             international law for the Americas.

             e. Congresses for health and sanitations conventions: Rio
             de Janiero (1887, 1906), Lima (1888), Washington (1902,
             1905), Mexico City (1907), San Jose de Costa Rica (1909).

             f. Scientific congresses: Buenos Aires (1898), Montevideo,
             (1901), Rio de Janiero (1905), Santiago de Chile, (1908),
             Washington, (1916).

             g. Control of river commerce; the international rivers.

         8. Central American affairs; arbitration agreement.

         9. The so-called A. B. C. Alliance.

         10. Relations with Europe:

             Diplomatic; economic; cultural.

         11. European interventions in Latin American affairs:

             Examples of European intervention: France and Great Britain
             at Buenos Aires and Montevideo; Spain and France in Mexico;
             France, Great Britain and Spain in Mexico; Spain in Santo
             Domingo and Peru; Great Britain at Corinto; Germany, Great
             Britain and Italy in Venezuela.

     Readings: Shepherd, 96-106; Koebel, _The South Americans_,
     41-63; Garcia Calderon, 335-350; _Cambridge Modern History_,
     Vol. XII, 689-702; Moore, _Brazil and Peru Boundary Question_;
     Posada, _En America una compaña_; Helio Lobo, _O Tribunal
     Arbitral Brasiliero-Boliviano_; Alvarez, _Le Droit
     international Americain_; Quesada, _La Evolution del
     Panamericanismo_.


=Chapter X. Later Diplomatic and Political Relations with the United
States.=

         1. Development and extension of the Monroe Doctrine:

             a. The Jackson-Van Buren attitude.

             b. Polk's revival, interpretation, and restriction.

             c. Monroe Doctrine in the fifties:

                 1. Connection with slavery issue.

                 2. Paraguay, 1857-59.

             d. The Maximilian episode.

             e. The United States and the Chilean war with Spain.

             f. Grant and the nationalization of the doctrine.

             g. The Santos claim in Ecuador; Alsop claim in Chile.

             h. Cleveland-Olney extension.

             i. Monroe Doctrine and imperialism.

             j. Roosevelt-Taft period.

             k. Wilson Doctrine.

             l. Monroe Doctrine and claims against Hispanic-American
             countries:

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