a. Empire and early republic: Iturbide and Santa Anna.
b. Relations with Texas.
c. The war with the United States.
d. Struggle with the church: Juarez.
e. Maximilian.
f. The Diaz regime; economic development.
g. Contemporary period: the revolution.
Madero; Huerta; Carranza; Villa; Obregon.
h. Relations with the United States; with Japan; with Germany.
i. Constitution and politics.
Madero; Huerta; Carranza; Villa; Obregon.
Additional Readings: Alaman, Historia de Mexico; Esquivel, Democracia y personalismo; Estrada, La Revolution y Francisco I. Madero; Gonzalez, La Revolucion y sus heroes; Zamacois, Historia de Mexico; Planchet, La Cuestion religiosa en Mexico.
6. The Central American States:
First Class: Costa Rica and Guatemala.
Second Class: Honduras, Salvador, and Nicaragua.
1. Race distribution.
2. Projects of union: 1824-1838; 1842; 1848; 1852; 1862; 1872; 1876; 1887; 1889; 1895; 1897.
3. The peace conference of 1907; the court.
4. Political and economic conditions.
5. Foreign relations.
Readings: Villafranca, Costa Rica; Winter, Guatemala; Guardia, Costa Rica; Squier, States of Central America; Palmer, Central America; Fortier and Ficklen, Central America and Mexico; Martin, Salvador; Koebel, Central America; Munro, The Five Central American Republics; Shepherd, Central and South America.
7. The Insular Republics.
A. Cuba.
1. Cuba in the early part of the 19th century.
2. Plans made in South America for the revolutionizing of Cuba.
3. Cuba in diplomacy; attitude of the United States and Europe.
4. Slavery in Cuba.
5. Filibusters.
6. The ten year war; the problem of reform.
7. The Spanish-American War; status of Cuba after the peace.
8. American occupation; the Platt Amendment.
9. Republican government in Cuba; interventions by the United States; diplomatic and economic relations with the United States.
Readings: Callahan, Cuba and International Relations; Leroy-Beaulieu, 251-268; Cabrera, Cuba and the Cubans; Porter, Industrial Cuba; Lindsay, Cuba and her People of Today; Quesada, The War in Cuba; Guiteras, Historia de la Isla de Cuba; Ramon de la Sagra, Historia de la Isla de Cuba (13t); Canini, Four Centuries of Spanish Rule in Cuba; Johnson, The History of Cuba (5v); Hill, Cuba and Porto Rico.
B. Haiti and Santo Domingo:
1. Monarchy and republicanism in Haiti and Santo Domingo.
2. Social and racial problems.
3. Political disorders.
4. International relations:
a. Financial conditions; foreign claims.
b. Interventions.
c. Relations of Santo Domingo and the United States.
d. Haiti and the United States.
5. Attitude toward the United States.
6. Contemporary government and politics.
Readings: Fiske, West Indies; Eves, West Indies; St. John, Haiti, the Black Republic; Schoenrich, Santo Domingo; Hazard, Santo Domingo, Past and Present; Hollander, Report on the Debt of Santo Domingo (Sen. Ex. Document, 59th Cong.); Garcia, Compendio de la Historia de Santo Domingo.
8. Panama:
a. Secessionist tendencies in Panama.
b. The revolution.
c. The republic.
d. Relations with Colombia and the United States.
Required Readings: Bishop, Panama, Past and Present; Gause and Carr, The Story of Panama; Bunau-Varilla, Panama; the Creation, Destruction and Resurrection; Villegas, The Republic of Panama.
Readings in general for political history: Dawson, The South American Republics; Akers, History of South America; Dodd, Modern Constitutions; Rodriguez, American Constitutions; Sweet, History of Latin America; Koebel, South America; Garcia Calderon, Latin-America, 86-231; Cambridge Modern History, XII, 672-689; Domville-Fife, Great States of South America; Enock, The Republics of Central and South America; Porter, The Ten Republics; Colmo, Los paises de la America latina; Amunategui, Ensayos biographicos (4v); Shepherd, Hispanic Nations of the New World.
First Class: Costa Rica and Guatemala.
Second Class: Honduras, Salvador, and Nicaragua.
1. Race distribution.
2. Projects of union: 1824-1838; 1842; 1848; 1852; 1862; 1872; 1876; 1887; 1889; 1895; 1897.
3. The peace conference of 1907; the court.
4. Political and economic conditions.
5. Foreign relations.
1. Race distribution.
2. Projects of union: 1824-1838; 1842; 1848; 1852; 1862; 1872; 1876; 1887; 1889; 1895; 1897.
3. The peace conference of 1907; the court.
4. Political and economic conditions.
5. Foreign relations.
A. Cuba.
1. Cuba in the early part of the 19th century.
2. Plans made in South America for the revolutionizing of Cuba.
3. Cuba in diplomacy; attitude of the United States and Europe.
4. Slavery in Cuba.
5. Filibusters.
6. The ten year war; the problem of reform.
7. The Spanish-American War; status of Cuba after the peace.
8. American occupation; the Platt Amendment.
9. Republican government in Cuba; interventions by the United States; diplomatic and economic relations with the United States.
1. Cuba in the early part of the 19th century.
2. Plans made in South America for the revolutionizing of Cuba.
3. Cuba in diplomacy; attitude of the United States and Europe.
4. Slavery in Cuba.
5. Filibusters.
6. The ten year war; the problem of reform.
7. The Spanish-American War; status of Cuba after the peace.
8. American occupation; the Platt Amendment.
9. Republican government in Cuba; interventions by the United States; diplomatic and economic relations with the United States.
B. Haiti and Santo Domingo:
1. Monarchy and republicanism in Haiti and Santo Domingo.
2. Social and racial problems.
3. Political disorders.
4. International relations:
a. Financial conditions; foreign claims.
b. Interventions.
c. Relations of Santo Domingo and the United States.
d. Haiti and the United States.
5. Attitude toward the United States.
6. Contemporary government and politics.
1. Monarchy and republicanism in Haiti and Santo Domingo.
2. Social and racial problems.
3. Political disorders.
4. International relations:
a. Financial conditions; foreign claims.
b. Interventions.
c. Relations of Santo Domingo and the United States.
d. Haiti and the United States.
5. Attitude toward the United States.
6. Contemporary government and politics.
a. Financial conditions; foreign claims.
b. Interventions.
c. Relations of Santo Domingo and the United States.
d. Haiti and the United States.