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:: XVIII. The Guianas: British, Dutch and French

Collection:: Economics Books

192 SELLING LATIN AMERICA in the possession of Spain and was under its control until 1624. The Dutch in 1648, after the close of their war with Spain, and through one of their mercantile companies, obtained a trading port in what afterwards became known as Dutch Guiana. Following their move, the English under Sir Walter Raleigh, acquired their present possession, establishing a town now known as Surinam, the English afterwards giving a portion of this territory to the Dutch in exchange for their holdings in North America. About the same time the French established a colony at Cayenne, and later on came near being embroiled in a war with Brazil over the boundary line, which was finally amicably adjusted. These three European colonies, the only ones by the way, in South America, British Guiana being the most westerly, French Guiana the eastern and Dutch Guiana be tween the others, have for their northern boundary the Atlantic Ocean. Venezuela is the western neighbor of British Guiana. Brazil touches each of these colonies as their

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