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The South American Republics, Part I

The South American Republics, Part I

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Number of Chapters: 44

Length: 12 hours and 20 minutes

Language: English

The question most frequently asked me since I began my stay in South America has been: "Why do they have so many revolutions there?" Possibly the events recounted in the following pages may help the reader to answer this for himself. I hope that he will share my conviction that militarism has already definitely disappeared from more than half the continent and is slowly becoming less powerful in the remainder. Constitutional traditions, inherited from Spain and Portugal, implanted a tendency toward disintegration; Spanish and Portuguese tyranny bred in the people a distrust of all rulers and governments; the war of independence brought to the front military adventurers; civil disorders were inevitable, and the search for forms of government that should be final and stable has been very painful. On the other hand, the generous impulse that prompted the movement toward independence has grown into an earnest desire for ordered liberty, which is steadily spreading among all classes. Civic capacity is increasing among the body of South Americans and immigration is raising the industrial level. They are slowly evolving among themselves the best form of government for their special needs and conditions.

It is hard to secure from the tangle of events called South American history a clearly defined picture. At the risk of repetition I have tried to tell separately the story of each country, because each has its special history and its peculiar characteristics. All of these states have, however, had much in common and it is only in the case of the larger nations that social and political conditions have been described in detail. (Fragment of the Preface)

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INTRODUCTORY: THE DISCOVERIES AND THE CONQUEST part 1 (Piotr Nater)
INTRODUCTORY: THE DISCOVERIES AND THE CONQUEST part 2 (Piotr Nater)
ARGENTINA I: THE ARGENTINE LAND (Piotr Nater)
ARGENTINA II: THE SPANISH COLONIAL SYSTEM (Piotr Nater)
ARGENTINA III: THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY (Piotr Nater)
ARGENTINA IV. THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY (Piotr Nater)
ARGENTINA V. THE BEGINNINGS OF THE REVOLUTION (Piotr Nater)
ARGENTINA VI. COMPLETION OF THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE (Piotr Nater)
ARGENTINA VII. THE ERA OF CIVIL WARS (Piotr Nater)
ARGENTINA VIII. CONSOLIDATION (Piotr Nater)
ARGENTINA IX. THE MODERN ARGENTINE (Piotr Nater)
PARAGUAY I. PARAGUAY UNTIL 1632 (Piotr Nater)
PARAGUAY II. THE JESUIT REPUBLIC AND COLONIAL PARAGUAY (Piotr Nater)
PARAGUAY III. FRANCIA'S REIGN (Piotr Nater)
PARAGUAY IV. THE REIGN OF THE ELDER LOPEZ (Piotr Nater)
PARAGUAY V. THE WAR (Piotr Nater)
PARAGUAY VI. PARAGUAY SINCE 1870 (Piotr Nater)
URUGUAY I. INTRODUCTION (Piotr Nater)
URUGUAY II. PORTUGUESE AGGRESSIONS AND THE SETTLEMENT OF THE COUNTRY (Piotr Nater)
URUGUAY III. THE REVOLUTION (Piotr Nater)
URUGUAY IV. INDEPENDENCE AND CIVIL WAR (Piotr Nater)
URUGUAY V. CIVIL WAR AND ARGENTINE INTERVENTION (Piotr Nater)
URUGUAY VI. COLORADOS AND BLANCOS (Piotr Nater)
BRAZIL I. PORTUGAL (Piotr Nater)
BRAZIL II. DISCOVERY (Piotr Nater)
BRAZIL III. DESCRIPTION (Piotr Nater)
BRAZIL IV. EARLY COLONISATION (Piotr Nater)
BRAZIL V. THE JESUITS (Piotr Nater)
BRAZIL VI. FRENCH OCCUPATION OF RIO (Piotr Nater)
BRAZIL VII. EXPANSION (Piotr Nater)
BRAZIL VIII. THE DUTCH CONQUEST (Piotr Nater)
BRAZIL IX. EXPULSION OF THE DUTCH (Piotr Nater)
BRAZIL X. THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY (Piotr Nater)
BRAZIL XI. GOLD DISCOVERIES—REVOLTS—FRENCH ATTACKS (Piotr Nater)
BRAZIL XII. THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY (Piotr Nater)
BRAZIL XIII. THE PORTUGUESE COURT IN RIO (Piotr Nater)
BRAZIL XIV. INDEPENDENCE (Piotr Nater)
BRAZIL XV. REIGN OF PEDRO I. (Piotr Nater)
BRAZIL XVI. THE REGENCY (Piotr Nater)
BRAZIL XVII. PEDRO II. (Piotr Nater)
BRAZIL XVIII. EVENTS OF 1849 TO 1864 (Piotr Nater)
BRAZIL XIX. THE PARAGUAYAN WAR (Piotr Nater)
BRAZIL XX. REPUBLICANISM AND EMANCIPATION (Piotr Nater)
BRAZIL XXI. THE REVOLUTION—THE DICTATORSHIP—THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE REPUBLIC (Piotr Nater)
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