The epic of Latin America

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The Mayas: "Greeks of the New World"

The Incas: children of the sun

The Toltec-Aztec culture

The New World meets the Old World's cross and sword

The halls of Montezuma

Pizarro's exploits in the "Empire of the sun"

The conquest of Chile

Columbus yields to the "Knight of El Dorado"

Conquest of the River Plate

Brazil: land of no lure

Iberians and Indians

The division of lands and labor

The empire consolidated

Trade monopoly and pirates

Flowering of the missions

The church as inquisitor and moral censor

Gold and silver in foreign coffers

The Brazilian colossus begins to move forward

Struggle over possession of the behemoth

After the banner into the sertão

The feudal pattern of colonial society

Life in the colonial. Towns

The beginnings of colonial culture

Colonial belles-lettres

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

Revolt of the classes

Liberator of the north

Revolution in the south

Argentina parts company with Spain

San Martín: protector of Peru

The two generals meet and Guayaquil

The cry from Dolores

Men of destiny

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

The Paraguayan War

Venezuela and Columbia under Caudillo rule

The Andean Republics

Chile: democracy of the oligarchy

Santa Anna loses half of Mexico

Benito Juárez: Indian president

Porfirio Díaz: bread or the club

Ariel and Caliban

The twentieth century: deep womb, dark flower

The postwar years

The contemporary scene

Inter-American relations today