Historic Documents of Latin America
You don't have access to this content. Please try to log in with your institution. Sign In
Description
Table of contents
Chapters
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 the curated selection of documents helps make the volume an important starting point for
historical research.
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 the curated selection of documents 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 Chávez: Speech at the Opening of the Twelfth G-15 Summit
