Internet Modern History Sourcebook
19th Century Latin America
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Latin America in the 19th
Century
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Mexico
- WEB Wikisource: Mexico
- Alexander Von Humboldt: Problems and Progress in
Mexico, c. 1800 [At this Site]
- The Treaty of Guadaloupe Hidalgo, 2 Feb 1848 [At this
Site]
The United States siezes roughly half the land area of Mexico.
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Benito Juarez (1806-1872, Pres. of Mexico, 1861-65, 1867-72): Apuntes Para Mis Hijos (Notes for My Children) c. 1857 [Was At Historical Text Archive, now Internet Archive]
- Channing Arnold & Frederick J. Tabor Frost: The Rule of
Porfirio Diaz 1909 [At this Site]
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Mexico: Constitución
de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos, 31 de enero de 1917 [At Solon Law Archive]
- George M. McBride: Haciendas from The Land Systems
of Mexico, 1923 [At this Site]
- Postal Convention Between the United States of America and the Republic of Mexico, December 11, 1861
[At Yale] [Internet Archive version here]
- Francisco Madero: The Plan of San Luis Potosi, November
20, 1910 [At this Site]
Which marks the beginning of the Mexican revolution.
- Ricardo Flores Magón: Program of the Liberal Party 1911 [At Modern Latin America] [Internet Archive version here]
- Emiliano Zapata: Plan de Ayala 1911 [At Modern Latin America] [Internet Archive version here]
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Argentina
- WEB Wikisource: Argentina
- Wikipedia: History of Argentina
Basic peridisation and chronology
- 2ND Heath Douglas: A Brief History of 19th Century Argentina [Was At Historical Text Archive, now Internet Archive]
- Map: The changing state of Argentina. The light green area was allocated to indigenous peoples, the light pink area was the Liga Federal, the hatched areas are subject to change during the period.
- Independence and the Civil War, 1810-1820
- Wikipedia: Buenos Aires
- Wikipedia: Gaucho
Contains
excerpts from historical witnesses.
- Wikipedia: British Investment in Argentina
- Wikipedia: Pampas
An agricultural revolution, end of 19th century
- Wikipedia: Italian Immigration
Images, maps, charts.
62%
of Argeninians have Italian ancestry.
- Wikipedia: History of the Jews in Argentina
The Jewish population in Argentina is the largest in Latin America, the third largest in the Americas, and the world's seventh largest outside Israel.
- WEB British Settlers in Argentina and Uruguay—studies in 19th and 20th century emigration [At ArgBrit] [Internet Archive version here]
- Maria Eugenia Echenique: The Emancipation of Women, 1876 [Was At WSU, now Internet Archive] - An Argentinian feminist..
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Brazil
- WEB Wikisource: Brazil
- Wikipedia: History of Brazil
Chronology, periodisation, maps, and illustrations.
- Slavery in Brazil PDF File [Was at Utexas, now Internet Archive]
Contains a number of primary sources on slavery in Brazil.
- WEB Brazilian Slavery [At HistClo] [Internet Archive version here]
- Thomas Ewbank: On Slavery in Brazil 1856 [At Modern Latin America] [Internet Archive version here]
- Pope Leo XIII: Encyclical In Plurimus (On the Abolition of Slavery in Brazil), 1888. [At the Vatican]
The pope gives a history of slavery in the modern period, condemns Muslim slavery and
condones anti-slavery activity by popes. He neglects to mention the permission for the
onset of the African slave trade provide by Pope Nicholas V.
- Charles Darwin: Rio de Janeiro 1832, from The Voyage of the Beagle, Chapter 2 [At CoolGalapagos] [Internet Archive version here]
- Charles Darwin: “I shall never again visit a slave-country”, passage from near the end of the Voyage of the Beagle [At Victorian Web] [Internet Archive version here]
- Pierre Denis: The Coffee Fazenda of Brazil,excerpts. 1911 [At this Site]
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H. M. Tomlinson: The Sea and the
Jungle, 1912 [At ibiblio] [Internet Archive version here]
"Narrative of the voyage of the tramp steamer Capella from Swansea to Para in the
Brazils, and thence 2000 miles along the forests of the Amazon.."
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Chile
- WEB Wikisource: Chile
- Parlamento of Negrete, 1803 trans. Elizabeth Contreras and Pilar Herr, ed. William H.Campbell [At Pitt] [Internet Archive version here]
Treaty between the Spanish colonial government and the Indigenous Mapuche peoples.
- Wikipedia: History of Chile
Chronology, periodisation, maps, and illustrations.
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Columbia/Panama
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Cuba
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Nicaragua
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Peru
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Venezuela
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Paraguay
- WEB Wikisource: Paraguay
- Wikipedia: History of Paraguay
Chronology, periodisation, maps, and illustrations
- Wikipedia: Paraguayan War 1864-1870
Fought between Paraguay and the Triple Alliance of Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay. It was the deadliest and bloodiest inter-state war in Latin American history, and one of the most deadly in the 19th century, with casualties of between 150,000 and 500,000. Paraguay lost 69% of its population, 90% of them male.
- Richard Burton: Letters from the Battlefields of Paraguay 1870 [Wikisource]
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