Historic documents of Latin America : the essential primary sources.

Format:

Book

Series:

Historic Documents Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latin America--History--Sources.

Latin America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 198 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Dallas, Texas : Schlager, [2024]

Summary:

This volume explores critical aspects of Latin American history, from early civilizations to the colonial era to independence and nation-building in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and beyond. It includes key primary documents, from letters and speeches to government documents and royal edicts. Overview articles provide important context to the era, while a detailed Bibliography helps make the volume an important starting point for historical research.

Contents:

Requerimiento

Hernán Cortés: Second letter to Charles V

Aztec account of the conquest of Mexico

Hernando Pizarro: Letter to the Royal Audience of Santo Domingo

New laws of the Indies

Bartolomé de las Casas: A brief account of the destruction of the Indies

Antônio Vieira: "Children of God's Fire"

Juana Inés de la Cruz: "The Poet's Answer to Sor Filotea De La Cruz'

Constitution of Haiti

Simón Bolívar: Cartagena Manifesto

Declaration of the Independence of the United Provinces of South America

Treaty of Córdoba

Domingo Sarmiento: Life in the Argentine Republic in the days of the tyrants

Mexican constitution of 1857

Maria Eugenia Echenique: "The Emancipation of Women"

Treaty of Limits between Mexico and Guatemala

Pope Leo XIII: In Plurimis

Panama Canal treaty

James Creelman: “Porfirio Díaz: Hero of the Americas”

John Kenneth Turner: Barbarous Mexico

Francisco Madero: Plan of San Luis Potosí

Emiliano Zapata: Plan of Ayala

Francisco García Calderón: Latin America: Its rise and progress

Constitution of Mexico

Lázaro Cárdenas: Speech to the Nation on the nationalization of Mexican oil

Juan Perón: “Twenty fundamental truths of Justicialism”

Fidel Castro: History will absolve me

John Foster Dulles: Radio and television address on communism in Guatemala

Che Guevara: “Guerrilla warfare: A method”

Che Guevara: Address to the United Nations General Assembly

Medellín conference statement on justice

Carlos Marighella: Minimanual of the urban guerrilla

Salvador Allende: First annual message to the national congress

Óscar Romero: Last sermon

Chico Mendes: "The destruction of our rain forest"

Óscar Arias: “Thoughts on peace”

Hugo Chavez: Speech at the opening of the twelfth G-15 Summit.

Notes:

Electronic book

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ISBN:

9781961844278

1961844273

OCLC:

1506816698