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The South American Republics, Part II

by Thomas Cleland DAWSON (1835 - 1912)

BOLIVIA I. THE CONQUEST AND THE MINES

This history begins when Pizarro and Almagro, Valdivia and Benalcazar, led their desperadoes across the Isthmus to the conquest, massacre, and enslavement of the prosperous and civilised millions who inhabited the Pacific coast of South America. It ends with the United States opening a way through that same Isthmus for the ships, the trade, the capital of all the world; with American engineers laying railroad iron on the imperial highway of the Incas; with British bondholders forgiving stricken Peru's national debt; with their debtor bravely facing the fact of bankruptcy, and turning over to them all its railways. (from the Preface, available in the source text together with the bibliography and numerous pictures)

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Listen next episodes of The South American Republics, Part II:
BOLIVIA II. THE COLONIAL SYSTEM AND TUPAC'S REVOLT , BOLIVIA III. THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE , BOLIVIA IV. BOLIVIA INDEPENDENT , COLOMBIA I. CONQUEST AND SETTLEMENT , COLOMBIA II. COLONIAL TIMES , COLOMBIA III. THE WAR AGAINST SPAIN , COLOMBIA IV. MODERN COLOMBIA , ECUADOR I. THE CARAS , ECUADOR II. THE SPANISH CONQUEST , ECUADOR III. THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE , ECUADOR IV. THE FORMATION OF ECUADOR , ECUADOR V. MODERN ECUADOR , PANAMA. THE EVENTS LEADING TO INDEPENDENCE , VENEZUELA I. CONQUEST, SETTLEMENT, AND COLONIAL DAYS , VENEZUELA II. THE REVOLT , VENEZUELA III. MODERN VENEZUELA