Author: Robert McLeanPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781330199756
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Excerpt from Old Spain in New America There seemed to the General Committee of Twenty-eight, to which is committed the choice of topics for the text books for mission study, one outstandingly appropriate subject for 1916 - "The Two Americas." The national pride in the physical achievement of a completed Panama Canal has crystallized into appreciation of the new problems and greater responsibilities coming to the United States with the easier access to the West Coast of South America, and with the drawing together of all the peoples of the two continents. The continued disturbances in Mexico have aroused more earnest inquiry into the conditions that exist in that unfortunate country, and the reiterated demands for intervention by this government have emphasized its nearness to us. The Expositions of San Francisco and San Diego have acquainted the people of the North with the advance made by the countries of the Southern Continent: the Pan-American Scientific Congress held in Washington, D. C., in January, 1916, and the Congress on Christian Work in Latin America held at Panama, February, 1916, have concentrated attention on the Spanish speaking peoples of the two continents and the adjacent islands. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
