Selling Latin America

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Identifikator:: 101030657X

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-41609

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Aughinbaugh, William E.

Title:: Selling Latin America

Place of publication:: Boston

Publisher:: Small, Maynard & Company Publishers

Year of publication:: 1915

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (VI, 408 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2018

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: VIII. Peru

Collection:: Economics Books

92 SELLING LATIN AMERICA tory and was assassinated in front of his palace in 1541. The great wealth which Peru, through her rich mines, contributed to Spain, warranted that country in making this possession a vice royalty, the viceroy at one time governing all Spanish possessions in South America from Lima. The movement for independence from Spanish control, started early in the last cen tury, found many adherents in Peru and after several reverses the yoke of Spain was thrown off July 28, 1821, a congress organized in 1822, representing a republican form of government and the first president inaugurated in 1823. In 1879, over a question of boundary lines, Peru became involved in a war with Chile, lasting five years, the result being the defeat of Peru and the invasion of its capital. As a consequence, Peru ceded one of its richest provinces, Tarapaca, outright to Chile, and the territories of Tacna and Arica condition ally for ten years, at the end of which period a vote was to be taken in these provinces, and

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