1. Political and economic conditions in the Caribbean area; effects and influences of the Spanish-American War.
2. Strategic importance; United States as a Caribbean power.
a. Porto Rico as a dependency.
b. Territorial government; the insular cases; the question of citizenship.
c. The Virgin Islands.
3. Dominant position of the United States:
a. In commerce.
b. Financial agreements with Santo Domingo, Haiti, Nicaragua.
c. The Panama Canal as a factor in the problem; status of the Republic of Panama with respect to the United States.
d. Naval bases of the United States; lease of the Corn Islands.
e. Interventions of the United States.
4. Relations of the United States and Venezuela, Colombia, Central America.
5. Attitude of Caribbean peoples toward the United States; problem of self-determination.
6. Contemporary tendencies.
a. Porto Rico as a dependency.
b. Territorial government; the insular cases; the question of citizenship.
c. The Virgin Islands.
a. In commerce.
b. Financial agreements with Santo Domingo, Haiti, Nicaragua.
c. The Panama Canal as a factor in the problem; status of the Republic of Panama with respect to the United States.
d. Naval bases of the United States; lease of the Corn Islands.
e. Interventions of the United States.
8. The Panama Canal:
a. Treaties and plans for construction.
b. The French enterprise.
c. Relations of Columbia and the United States.
d. Secession and independence of Panama.
e. Hay-Bunau-Varilla treaty.
f. Construction of Canal.
g. Possible economic and political effects.
h. The Columbian grievance against the United States; diplomatic developments.
9. Wilson Administration:
a. Hispanic-American policy.
b. Relations with Mexico.
c. Achievements and criticism.
Required Readings: Senate Doc., No. 744, 61st Cong., 3rd Session; Annals of American Academy of Pol. Science, July, 1914; Bryce, 484-520; Garcia Calderon, 298-312; Latane, America as a World Power, 255-285; ——, Diplomatic Relations of the United States with Spanish America; Williams, Anglo-American Isthmian Diplomacy; The New Pan Americanism, Parts I, II and III (World Peace Foundation).
Additional Readings: Flack, Spanish American Diplomatic Relations Preceding the War of 1898; Chandler, Inter-American Acquaintances; Moore, Principles of American Diplomacy, 365-419; Maurtua, La Idea Pan Americana y la cuestion del arbitraje; Usher, Pan-Americanism; Gause and Carr, The Story of Panama; Bishop, Panama, Past and Present.
a. Treaties and plans for construction.
b. The French enterprise.
c. Relations of Columbia and the United States.
d. Secession and independence of Panama.
e. Hay-Bunau-Varilla treaty.
f. Construction of Canal.
g. Possible economic and political effects.
h. The Columbian grievance against the United States; diplomatic developments.
a. Hispanic-American policy.
b. Relations with Mexico.
c. Achievements and criticism.
Chapter XI. Trade Relations of Hispanic America and the United States.
1. Origins of trade.
2. Development of trade during the 19th century:
a. Comparative predominance of United States to about 1850.
b. Disruption of trade during War of Secession.
c. Increased European competition after Franco-Prussian war.
3. History of trade in the 20th century.
4. Volume of contemporary trade, export and import, with United States; with Europe.
5. Character of the trade:
a. Standard articles imported and exported.
b. Non-competitive goods and raw products.
c. Competitive goods.
6. Purchasing power of Hispanic American countries.
7. Misconceptions, current in United States, as to Hispanic-American habits of business.
8. Obstacles in the way of trade:
a. Lack of merchant marine.
b. Established habits and traditions of trade.
c. Ignorance of market and the accepted methods of trade:
1. Market demands.
2. Transportation problems.
3. Tariff administrations.
d. Long term credits.
e. Lack of organization to secure the trade.
9. Methods for improvement.
10. The Webb-Pomerene Act.
11. Effects of the European war of 1914; construction of the Panama Canal.
12. Increase of American business interests in Hispanic America.
Readings: Atlas America Latina; Verrill, South and Central American Trade Conditions of Today, 168-179; U. S. Sen. Doc. No. 737, 60th Cong., 2d Sess., (Fisher, Ethnography and Commercial Importance of Latin America and the West Indies); House Doc., No. 154, 59 Cong., 2d Sess.; Aughinbaugh, Selling Latin America; Babson, The Future of South America; Bonsal, The American Mediterranean; Chandler, Inter-American Acquaintances; Hough, Practical Exporting; Shepherd, 168-179; ——, Our South American Trade (Pol. Science Quart., Dec., 1909); Filsinger, Exporting to Latin America; Savay, The Science of Foreign Trade; Pepper, American Foreign Trade; Cooper, Understanding South America; Wilson, South America as an Export Field, (Sp. Agt. Ser. No. 81, 1914, Dept. of Com.); South American Supplement, London Times; U. S. consular reports; reports of the Department of Commerce and Labor (now Department of Commerce).
1. Origins of trade.
2. Development of trade during the 19th century:
a. Comparative predominance of United States to about 1850.
b. Disruption of trade during War of Secession.
c. Increased European competition after Franco-Prussian war.
3. History of trade in the 20th century.
4. Volume of contemporary trade, export and import, with United States; with Europe.
5. Character of the trade:
a. Standard articles imported and exported.
b. Non-competitive goods and raw products.
c. Competitive goods.
6. Purchasing power of Hispanic American countries.
7. Misconceptions, current in United States, as to Hispanic-American habits of business.
8. Obstacles in the way of trade:
a. Lack of merchant marine.
b. Established habits and traditions of trade.
c. Ignorance of market and the accepted methods of trade:
1. Market demands.
2. Transportation problems.
3. Tariff administrations.
d. Long term credits.
e. Lack of organization to secure the trade.
9. Methods for improvement.
10. The Webb-Pomerene Act.
11. Effects of the European war of 1914; construction of the Panama Canal.
12. Increase of American business interests in Hispanic America.