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William R. Shepherd. The Hispanic Nations of the New World: A Chronicle of Our Southern Neighbors
The Hispanic Nations of the New World: A Chronicle of Our Southern Neighbors
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. THE HERITAGE FROM SPAIN AND PORTUGAL
CHAPTER II. "OUR OLD KING OR NONE"
CHAPTER III "INDEPENDENCE OR DEATH"
CHAPTER IV. PLOUGHING THE SEA
CHAPTER V. THE AGE OF THE DICTATORS
CHAPTER VI. PERIL FROM ABROAD
CHAPTER VII. GREATER STATES AND LESSER
CHAPTER VIII. "ON THE MARGIN OF INTERNATIONAL LIFE"
CHAPTER IX. THE REPUBLICS OF SOUTH AMERICA
CHAPTER X. MEXICO IN REVOLUTION
CHAPTER XI. THE REPUBLICS OF THE CARIBBEAN
CHAPTER XII. PAN-AMERICANISM AND THE GREAT WAR
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
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William R. Shepherd
Published by Good Press, 2021
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In 1814, therefore, Spain still held the bulk of its dominions. Trinidad, to be sure, had been lost to Great Britain, and both Louisiana and West Florida to the United States. Royalist control, furthermore, had ceased in parts of the viceroyalties of La Plata and New Granada. To regain Trinidad and Louisiana was hopeless: but a wise policy conciliation or an overwhelming display of armed force might yet restore Spanish rule where it had been merely suspended.
Very different was the course of events in Brazil. Strangely enough, the first impulse toward independence was given by the Portuguese royal family. Terrified by the prospective invasion of the country by a French army, late in 1807 the Prince Regent, the royal family, and a host of Portuguese nobles and commoners took passage on British vessels and sailed to Rio de Janeiro. Brazil thereupon became the seat of royal government and immediately assumed an importance which it could never have attained as a mere dependency. Acting under the advice of the British minister, the Prince Regent threw open the ports of the colony to the ships of all nations friendly to Portugal, gave his sanction to a variety of reforms beneficial to commerce and industry, and even permitted a printing press to be set up, though only for official purposes. From all these benevolent activities Brazil derived great advantages. On the other hand, the Prince Regent's aversion to popular education or anything that might savor of democracy and the greed of his followers for place and distinction alienated his colonial subjects. They could not fail to contrast autocracy in Brazil with the liberal ideas that had made headway elsewhere in Spanish America. As a consequence a spirit of unrest arose which boded ill for the maintenance of Portuguese rule.
