The Mayas: "Greeks of the New World"
The Incas: children of the sun
The New World meets the Old World's cross and sword
Pizarro's exploits in the "Empire of the sun"
Columbus yields to the "Knight of El Dorado"
Conquest of the River Plate
The division of lands and labor
Trade monopoly and pirates
Flowering of the missions
The church as inquisitor and moral censor
Gold and silver in foreign coffers
The Brazilian colussus begins to move forward
Struggle over possession of the behemoth
After the banner into the sertão
The feudal pattern of colonial society
The beginnings of colonial culture
Architecture and the fine arts
Rebellion of the beast below
Chile emerges begins the Araucanian Frontier
The Argentine pampas: cradle of a great people
Brazilian plantation life yields to the lure of gold
Abortive rebellions in South America
Argentina parts company with Spain
San Martin: protector of Peru
The two generals meet and Guayaquil
Brazil escapes the chaos of revolution
The democratic emperor of Brazil
Paraguay as a symbol of perpetual despotism
The spirit of Argentine nationality
Juan Manuel de Rosas: tyrant of the Artentine
Sarmiento: civilian president
Venezuela and Columbia under Caudillo rule
Chile: democracy of the oligarchy
Santa Anna loses half of Mexico
Benito Juarez: Indian president
Porfirio Díaz: bread or the club
The twentieth century: deep womb, dark flower
Inter-American relations today.
