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Contents

• Latin America in the 19th Century
  • Independence
  • Political Development
  • United States Imperialism
  • Immigration
• Mexico
• Argentina
• Brazil
• Chile
• Colombia/Panama
• Cuba
• Nicaragua
• Peru
• Venezuela

Latin America in the 19th Century

• WEB Latin American Studies [At UTexas]
  Perhaps the main guide on the web.
• The Buried Mirror: Etexts [At Internet Archive]
  A major collection of sources and secondary material on Latin American history.
• Independence
  • Simón de Bolívar (1783-1830): Message to the Congress of Angostura, 1819 [At this Site]
• Political Development
  • Francisco Bilbao (1823-1865): America in Danger, 1862 [At this Site]
    On the justifications of military dictators.
  • F. Hassaurek: How to Conduct a Latin-American Revolution, 1865 [At this Site]
    Based on observations in Ecuador.
  • 2ND H-Net Caudillos Discussion [At H-Net][Added 7/27/98]
    Discusses different historical approaches to the caudillos.
• United States Imperialism
  • Timeline of US Intervention in Latin America [At Internet Archive, from Kansas]
  • Monroe Doctrine, 1823 [At Yale] and here [At Then Again] and here [At USInfo] or here [At American Revolution]
  • Francisco Garcia Calderón: Imperialism of Decadence, 1913 [At this Site]
  • Calvin Coolidge: Intervention in Nicaragua [At Mt. Holyoke]
• Immigration
  • Immigrant Wealth, 1883, [At Internet Archive, from Letters Magazine]
    Letter from an Englishman after moving to South America, 1883. Not a US immigrant, but these "letters home" were a major creator of emigration pressures.

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Mexico

• Alexander Von Humboldt: Problems and Progress in Mexico, c. 1800 [At this Site]
• The Treaty of Guadaloupe Hidalgo, 2 Feb 1848 [At this Site]
  The United States siezes roughly half the land area of Mexico.
• Benito Juarez (1806-1872, Pres. of Mexico, 1861-65, 1867-72): Apuntes Para Mis Hijos (Notes for My Children) c. 1857 [At Historical Text Archive]
• Channing Arnold & Frederick J. Tabor Frost: The Rule of Porfirio Diaz, 1909 [At this Site]
• Mexico: Constitución de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos, 31 de enero de 1917, [At Solon Law Archive]
• George M. McBride: Haciendas from The Land Systems of Mexico, 1923 [At this Site]
• Postal Convention Between the United States of America and the Republic ofMexico, December 11, 1861   [At Yale]
• Francisco Madero: The Plan of San Luis Potosi, November 20, 1910 [At this Site]
  Which marks the beginning of the Mexican revolution.

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Argentina

• 2ND Heath Douglas: A Brief History of 19th Century Argentina [At Historical Text Archive]
• Independence and the Civil War, 1810-1820
• Buenos Aires under Governor Bernardino Rivadavia, 1825-27
• Juan Manuel de Rosas 1793-1877 [picture of his grave, in England]
• Gaucho culture
• The Constitution of 1853
• Buenos Aires as new capital in federation of 1880
• British influence: Railways, investments and capital
• Development of the Pampas: An agricultural revolution, end of 19th century
• Italian Immigration
• Maria Eugenia Echenique: The Emancipation of Women, 1876 [At WSU] - An Argentinian feminist.

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Brazil

• Pope Leo XIII: Encyclical In Plurimus (On the Abolition of Slavery in Brazil),  1888. [At the Vatican]
  The pope gives a history of slavery in the modern period, condemns Muslim slavery and condones anti-slavery activity by popes. He neglects to mention the permission for the onset of the African slave trade provide by Pope Nicholas V.
• Pierre Denis: The Coffee Fazenda of Brazil, excerpts. 1911 [At this Site]
• H. M. Tomlinson: The Sea and the Jungle, 1912 [At ibiblio]
  "Narrative of the voyage of the tramp steamer Capella from Swansea to Para in the Brazils, and thence 2000 miles along the forests of the Amazon.."

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Chile

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Columbia/Panama

• Convention Between the US and Panama (Panama Canal), 1903   [At this Site]

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Cuba

• US Recognition of Cuban Independence, 1898 [At this Site]
• Treaty of Peace Between the United States and Spain, 1898
  By which the US acquired Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Phillipines. [At Yale]
• The Platt Amendment, 1901 [At this Site]

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Nicaragua

• Rubén Darío (1867-1916): To Roosevelt [At WSU]
• Calvin Coolidge: Intervention in Nicaragua [At Mt. Holyoke]

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Peru

• Convention with Peru for the Satisfaction of Claims of American Citizens, March 17, 1841  [At Yale]

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Venezuela

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