OF THE NEW WORLD

A CHRONICLE OF

OUR SOUTHERN NEIGHBORS
BY WILLIAM R. SHEPHERD

NEW HAVEN: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
TORONTO: GLASGOW, BROOK & CO.

LONDON:

OXFORD

HUMPHREY MILFORD

UNIVERSITY PRESS

1919

VERSITY OF

Copyright, 1919, by Yale University Press

CONTENTS

I. THE HERITAGE FROM SPAIN AND

PORTUGAL

II. "OUR OLD KING OR NONE"

III. *"INDEPENDENCE OR DEATH"

IV. PLOUGHING THE SEA

V. THE AGE OF THE DICTATORS

VI. PERIL FROM ABROAD

VII. GREATER STATES AND LESSER

VIII. "ON THE MARGIN OF INTERNATIONAL

LIFE"

IX. THE REPUBLICS OF SOUTH AMERICA

X. MEXICO IN REVOLUTION

XI. THE REPUBLICS OF THE CARIBBEAN

XII. PAN-AMERICANISM AND THE GREAT

WAR

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

INDEX

256014

ILLUSTRATIONS

SIMÓN BOLÍVAR. Engraving.

Frontispiece

HISPANIC AMERICA IN 1783

Map by W. L. G. Joerg, American Geographical
Society.

Facing page

66 66

16

FRANCISCO DE MIRANDA. Engraving.

JOSÉ GASPAR RODRÍGUEZ DE FRANCIA

Wood engraving.

HISPANIC AMERICA IN 1828

Map by W. L. G. Joerg, American Geographical
Society.

JUAN MANUEL DE ROSAS. Engraving.

HISPANIC AMERICA IN 1919

Map by W. L. G. Joerg, American Geographical
Society.