Chile Today and Tomorrow
by L. E. Elliott Joyce
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About this eBook
- Author
- Joyce, L. E. Elliott (Lilian Elwyn Elliott), 1874-1963
- Title
- Chile today and tomorrow
- Original Publication
- New York: The Macmillan Company, 1922.
- Credits
- Richard Tonsing and The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- F3051: Latin America local history: Chile
- Subject
- Chile
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 74531
- Release Date
- October 6, 2024
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.CHILE TODAY AND TOMORROW
- 2.CONTENTS
- 3.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS — CHAPTER I
- 4.CHAPTER II CHILEAN HISTORY — Spanish Colonial Period — The Fight for Independence — Republican Chile
- 5.CHAPTER III STRANGERS ON THE PACIFIC COAST — Thomas Cavendish — The Narborough Expedition — Sharp and Dampier — Captain Betagh — The Loss of the “Wager” — Juan and Ulloa — Resident Foreigners — Strangers and Independence
- 6.CHAPTER IV THE INQUISITION IN CHILE — European Corsairs
- 7.CHAPTER V THE STRAIT OF MAGELLAN — Sarmiento — The City of Philip — Port Famine and Punta Arenas
- 8.CHAPTER VI THE TACNA QUESTION
- 9.CHAPTER VII MINING — The Nitrate Pampas — Nitrate Companies — The Caliche — A Desert Industry — Nitrate During and After the War — Copper — El Teniente and Chuquicamata — Pudahuel and Potrerillos — Iron — Gold and Silver — Coal
- 10.CHAPTER VIII AGRICULTURE — Oases in the Desert — Farming in Central Chile — Vineyards — Wheatfields, Orchards, and Sheepfarms — Irrigation Canals
- 11.CHAPTER IX FOREST AND WOODLAND
- 12.CHAPTER X COMMERCE — Chilean Market Needs — Sales to Foreign Countries — Foreign Firms in Chile — Trade-marks
- 13.CHAPTER XI TRANSPORT SYSTEMS — The Transandine Line — Sea Transport — Rivers and Lakes — Roads
- 14.CHAPTER XII FINANCE — Currency — Debts — Public Revenues
- 15.CHAPTER XIII CHILE’S NAVAL POSITION — Strength of the Chilean Navy
- 16.CHAPTER XIV IMMIGRATION — Araucanian Lands
- 17.CHAPTER XV CHILEAN LITERATURE
- 18.CHAPTER XVI NATIVE RACES OF CHILE — Araucanians
- 19.CHAPTER XVII EASTER ISLAND — Fate of the Islanders — The Statues — The Bird Cult — Wooden Carvings
- 20.CHAPTER XVIII A NOTE UPON VITAL STATISTICS
- 21.PROVINCES AND POPULATION OF CHILE
- 22.CHILEAN TERMS
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