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.

b. The invasions: Phoenician; Carthaginian; Roman;
               Visigothic; Vandal; Moorish.

               c. Immigration of Jews and Berbers.

               d. Contact and conflict with the Moors, 710-1492.

               e. Expulsion of the Moors and the Jews.

               f. Establishment of union and central government.

          3. The individualism of the people.

          4. Militarist spirit engendered by long wars.

          5. Evolution of types.

          6. Governmental system:

               a. The king and his powers.

               b. The executive and advisory councils.

               c. The Spanish Cortes.

               d. Legal codes and other systems of law.

               e. Administrative machinery.

               f. Local and municipal government.

               g. System of taxation.

               h. Efforts of Ferdinand and Isabella to unify Spain and
               centralize powers of government.

          7. The Church and morals:

               a. The Spanish clergy.

               b. Inquisition.

               c. Influences of Moors and Jews upon church and faith.

          8. Industries and agriculture; attitude toward labor: The
          _Mesta_; wheat, vine, and olive culture.

          9. Condition of social classes.
          10. Intellectual development in Spain:

               a. Formative influences on languages and literature.

               b. Contributions of the Moors.

               c. Ecclesiastical and philosophical writings.

          11. Motives of colonization.

     Required Readings: Chapman, _The History of Spain_, 1-286;
     Hume, _Spain, its Greatness and Decay_, 1479-1788, 1-64; _The
     Spanish People_, 144-404; Cheyney, 79-114; Ellis, _The Soul of
     Spain_, 29-105.

     Additional Readings: Lea, _History of the Inquisition in
     Spain_; ----, _The Moriscos of Spain_; ----, _History of
     Sarcedotal Celibacy_, 80-85; 300-311; Milman, _History of the
     Jews_, Vol. III, 264-309; Altamira, _Historia de España y de la
     Civilizacion española_; Colmeiro, _Derecho administrativo
     español_; Plunkett, _Isabel of Castile_; Sempere, _Histoire des
     Cortes d' Espagne_; Lowery, _The Spanish Settlements in the
     United States_, Vol. I, 79-101; Walton, _Civil Law in Spain and
     Spanish America_; Lane-Poole, _The Story of the Moors in
     Spain_; Scott, _History of the Moorish Empire in Europe_;
     Danvila y Collado, _El Poder Civil en España_; Lafuente and
     Valera, _Historia general de España_; Salazar, _Monarchia de
     España_, Vol. I; Sacristian y Martinez, _Municipalidades de
     Castilla y Leon_; Merriman, _The Rise of the Spanish Empire in
     the Old World and in the New_, Vols. I and II.

B. Background of Portuguese history.

     Portuguese society:

         1. General characteristics.

         2. Influence of climate in Portugal.

         3. Position as European power in the 16th Century.

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A Syllabus of Hispanic-American History

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