VI. PERIL FROM ABROAD

VII. GREATER STATES AND LESSER

VIII. "ON THE MARGIN OF INTERNATIONAL LIFE"

IX. THE REPUBLICS OF SOUTH AMERICA

X. MEXICO IN REVOLUTION

XI. THE REPUBLICS OF THE CARIBBEAN

XII. PAN-AMERICANISM AND THE GREAT WAR

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE



THE HISPANIC NATIONS OF THE NEW WORLD

CHAPTER I. THE HERITAGE FROM SPAIN AND PORTUGAL

At the time of the American Revolution most of the New World
still belonged to Spain and Portugal, whose captains and
conquerors had been the first to come to its shores. Spain had
the lion's share, but Portugal held Brazil, in itself a vast land
of unsuspected resources. No empire mankind had ever yet known
rivaled in size the illimitable domains of Spain and Portugal in
the New World; and none displayed such remarkable contrasts in
land and people. Boundless plains and forests, swamps and