Students will be required to provide themselves individually with a copy of this syllabus and with W. R. Shepherd's Latin America (Holt & Company). It is strongly recommended that they purchase also F. Garcia Calderon's Latin America: Its Rise and Progress (Scribners). For the general student and reader the following list of books, written in English, may be found useful:
For description, geography, travel, peoples and social conditions:
James Bryce, South America: Observations and Impressions. (Macmillan).
G. E. Church, Aborigines of South America. (Chapman and Hall.)
C. R. Enock, The Republics of Central and South America. (Dent & Sons).
A. H. Keane, Stanford's Compendium of Geography and Travel: Central and South America. (2 Vols., Lippincott.)
Atlas America Latina, (English, Spanish, Portuguese; General Drafting Co.).
R. Reyes, The Two Americas. (Stokes.)
A. Ruhl, The Other Americans. (Scribners.)
H. Bingham, Across South America. (Houghton Mifflin Co.)
For history:
T. C. Dawson, The South American Republics. (3 Vols., Putnam.)
A. H. Noll, A Short History of Mexico. (McClurg.)
F. Palmer, Central America and its Problems. (Moffat, Yard & Co.)
For institutions and history:
E. G. Bourne, Spain in America. (American Nation Series, Harpers.)
B. Moses, The Establishment of Spanish Rule in America. (Putnam.)
——, South America on the Eve of Emancipation. (Putnam.)
——, Spanish Dependencies in South America. (Harpers.)
F. L. Paxson, The Independence of the South American Republics. (2nd Ed., Ferris and Leach.)
W. S. Robertson, The Rise of the Spanish American Republics. (Appleton.)
W. R. Shepherd, Hispanic Nations of the New World; A Chronicle of Our Southern Neighbors. (Yale Press.)
For literature: