The South American Republics, Part I: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The South American Republics, Part I, credited to Thomas Cleland Dawson, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of The South American Republics, Part I by Thomas Cleland Dawson. Read in English by Piotr Nater The question most frequently asked me since I began my stay in South America has been: "Why do they have so many revolutions there?" Possibly the events recounted in the following pages may help the reader to answer this for himself. I hope that he will share my conviction that militarism has already definitely disappeared from more than half the continent and is slowly becoming less powerful in the remainder. Constitutional traditions, inherited from Spain and Portugal, implanted a tendency toward disintegration; Spanish and Portuguese tyranny bred in the people a distrust of all rulers and governments; the war of independence brought to the front military adventurers; civil disorders were inevitable, and the search for forms of government that should be final and stable has been very painful. On the other hand, the generous impulse that prompted the movement toward independence has grown into an earnest desire for ordered liberty, which is steadily spreading among all classes. Civic capacity is increasing among the body of South Americans and immigration is raising the industrial level. They are slowly evolving among themselves the best form of government for their special needs and conditions. It is hard to secure from the tangle of events called South American history a clearly defined picture. At the risk of repetition I have tried to tell separately the story of each country, because each has its special history and its peculiar characteristics. All of these states have, however, had much in common and it is only in the case of the larger nations that social and political conditions have been described in detail. (Fragment of the Preface) See the original text for the bibliography and numerous illustrations.

Recording facts

• Recording title: The South American Republics, Part I
• Author credits: Thomas Cleland Dawson
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 44
• Listed recording duration: 12:20:32

Catalogue topics

• history
• South America
• geography

Opening tracks: first 24 of 44

1. 01 - INTRODUCTORY: THE DISCOVERIES AND THE CONQUEST part 1 — 21:23
2. 02 - INTRODUCTORY: THE DISCOVERIES AND THE CONQUEST part 2 — 26:27
3. 03 - ARGENTINA I: THE ARGENTINE LAND — 13:13
4. 04 - ARGENTINA II: THE SPANISH COLONIAL SYSTEM — 17:29
5. 05 - ARGENTINA III: THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY — 19:48
6. 06 - ARGENTINA IV. THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY — 13:59
7. 07 - ARGENTINA V. THE BEGINNINGS OF THE REVOLUTION — 26:36
8. 08 - ARGENTINA VI. COMPLETION OF THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE — 27:05
9. 09 - ARGENTINA VII. THE ERA OF CIVIL WARS — 24:36
10. 10 - ARGENTINA VIII. CONSOLIDATION — 16:27
11. 11 - ARGENTINA IX. THE MODERN ARGENTINE — 32:15
12. 12 - PARAGUAY I. PARAGUAY UNTIL 1632 — 18:02
13. 13 - PARAGUAY II. THE JESUIT REPUBLIC AND COLONIAL PARAGUAY — 15:27
14. 14 - PARAGUAY III. FRANCIA'S REIGN — 14:08
15. 15 - PARAGUAY IV. THE REIGN OF THE ELDER LOPEZ — 12:47
16. 16 - PARAGUAY V. THE WAR — 19:14
17. 17 - PARAGUAY VI. PARAGUAY SINCE 1870 — 7:22
18. 18 - URUGUAY I. INTRODUCTION — 18:10
19. 19 - URUGUAY II. PORTUGUESE AGGRESSIONS AND THE SETTLEMENT OF THE COUNTRY — 11:16
20. 20 - URUGUAY III. THE REVOLUTION — 16:45
21. 21 - URUGUAY IV. INDEPENDENCE AND CIVIL WAR — 8:07
22. 22 - URUGUAY V. CIVIL WAR AND ARGENTINE INTERVENTION — 11:09
23. 23 - URUGUAY VI. COLORADOS AND BLANCOS — 18:26
24. 24 - BRAZIL I. PORTUGAL — 12:48

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