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19th Century Latin America
See Main Page for a guide
to all contents of all sections.
Contents
Latin America in the 19th
Century
- WEB Latin
American Studies [At UTexas]
Perhaps the main guide on the web.
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The Buried Mirror: Etexts [At Internet Archive]
A major collection of sources and secondary material on Latin American history.
- Independence
- Political Development
- United States Imperialism
- Immigration
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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.
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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]
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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]
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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
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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
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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]
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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
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Cuba
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Nicaragua
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Peru
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Venezuela
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NOTES: Dates of accession of material added since July 1998 can be seen in the New Additions page.. The date of inception
was 9/22/1997. Links to files at other site are indicated by [At some indication of the site
name or location]. Locally available texts are marked by [At this Site]. WEB indicates a link to one of small
number of high quality web sites which provide either more texts or an especially valuable
overview.
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