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Sept. 4: Introduction to the course
I.
Indigenous Peoples of Latin America
Sept
9-16: Crossing the Bering Strait and onward; Mexico prior to the
Spanish contact: From the Olmecs to the Aztecs
Burkholder
and Johnson, 1-22
Adams, 1-4, 25-39, 45-53, 59-63, 67-75, 77-89
Film: The Five Suns: A Sacred History of Mexico--(Sept. 16)
Sept.
18: The world of the Maya
Adams,
39-42, 53-58, 63-67, 75-77
Restall,
58-9, 80 (bring Restall book to class)
Sept
23-25: The Incas and South American aborigines
Film:
Odyssey series: "Incas"
Adams,
chaps. 4-5
Further
Reading:
Richard
Adams, The Origins of Maya
Civilization, and Prehistoric
Mesoamerica; Michael Coe, The
Maya; Linda Schele, et. al., Maya
Cosmos: Three Thousand Years on the Shaman’s Path; Eric Wolf, Sons
of the Shaking Earth; Charles Gallenkamp, The
Riddle and Rediscovery of a Lost Civilization: Maya; Frances Berdan, Aztecs
of Central Mexico; Julian Steward and Luis Faron, Native
Peoples of South America, especially article by J. H. Rowe, “Inca
Culture at the Time of the Spanish Conquest,” V. II, Pt. 2; Alfred
Metraux, History of the Incas; Jacques Soustelle, The Daily Life of the Aztecs on the Eve of the Conquest; Miguel
Lopez Portilla, Aztec Thought and
Culture; Damrosch, “The Aesthetics of Conquest: Aztec Poetry Before
and After Cortes,” in Stephen Greenblatt, New
World Encounters; selected chapters from Leslie Bethell, ed., The
Cambridge History of Latin America; Inga Clendinnen, Aztecs:
An Interpretation, and Ambivalent
Conquests: Maya and Spaniard inYucatan, 1517-1570; Garcilaso de la
Vega, Royal Commentaries of the
Incas; J. Alden Mason, The
Ancient Civilizations of Peru; Adrian Recinos, Memorial
de Solola: Anales de los Cakchiqueles; Tedlock, Dennis.
Popol Vuh: The Mayan Book of
the Dawn of Life. Touchstone Books, 1996; Coe, Michael.
Mexico: from Olmecs to Aztecs.
Thames and Hudson Press, 1994.
II.
The invasion and initial contact
Sept.
30: The Iberian background and the move westward
Burkholder
and Johnson, 23-40
Film:
Buried Mirror II
Oct
2-7, The invasion of the Aztecs, Incas, and Maya
Burkholder
and Johnson, 42-76
Oct.
7: Reflection Paper due: Restall Maya Conquistador
(whole book)
Oct
9: Guest Speaker, Francisco Ramirez, President of SINTRAMINERCOL
labor union in Columbia
Oct.
14: No class, October break
Oct.
23: Midterm Exam
Further
Reading:
Charles Verlinden, The Beginnings of Modern Civilization.
Eleven Essays with an Introduction; Felipe Fernández-Armesto,
Ferdinand and Isabella; J. H.
Elliot, Imperial Spain, 1469-1716,
and The New World and the Old;
John Parry, the Age of
Reconnaissance, and The
Discovery of the Sea; Samuel Morrison, Admiral
of the Ocean Sea; Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Columbus;
Louis-André Vigneras, The
Discovery of South America and the Andalusian Voyages; Carl O.
Sauer, The Early Spanish Main;
Inga Clendinnen, “Fierce and Unnatural Cruelty: Cortes and the
Conquest of Mexico,” in Greenblatt, New
World Encounters; J. H. Elliot, “The Spanish Conquest and
Settlement,” in Colonial Spanish America, and “Mental World of Hernan Cortes,”
in Spain and its World, 1500-1700;
R. C. Padden, The Hummingbird and
the Hawk; Nathan Wachtel, The
Vision of the Vanquished; Lopez Portilla, Broken
Spears: The Aztec Accountof the Conquest of Mexico; Hernan Cortes, Letters
from Mexico; John Hemming, Red
Gold; The conquest of the Brazilian Indians, 1500-1700, and The
Conquest of the Incas; George Kubler, “The Quechua in the Colonial
World,” in J. H. Seward, Handbook
of South American Indians, vol. II; Jerry Williams and Robert Lewis,
eds., Early Images of the Americas;
Ross Hassig, Mexico and the
Spanish Conquest; Hugh Thomas, Conquest:
Montezuma and Cortes; Tzevetan Todorov, The
Conquest of America; Franklin Pease and William Taylor, eds., Violence,
Resistance and Survival in the Americas; Anthony Pagden, European
Encounters with the New World;
George Lovell, Conquest and
Survival in Colonial Guatemala; Diaz, Bernal.
The Conquest of New Spain,
Viking Press, 1963.
III.
New and Old World Exchanges
Oct.
28: Biological consequences
Burkholder
and Johnson, 67-76
Film: The Columbian
Exchange
Recommended:
Melville, A Plague of Sheep
Further
reading:
IV.
The Structure of Spanish Colonial Government and Society
Oct.
30: Institutions of the Empire, the colonial church; indigenous
reactions
Burkholder and Johnson,
79-106
Nov.
4 Osher Map Library class, Matthew Edney
Meet in Osher Map Library in Portland campus library
Nov.
6: The Social Structure of Spanish Colonial Society
Burkholder
and Johnson, pp. 171-247
Nov. 6: Paper due: De Las Casas, A Short Account
of the Destruction of the Indies
Further Reading:
John
Parry and Robert G. Keith, New
Iberian World. A Documentary History of the Discovery and Settlement of
Latin America to the Early Seventeenth Century; Miles Wortman, Government and Society in Central America, 1680-1840; Matthew
Restall, The Maya World: Yucatec
Culture and Society, 1550-1850; Fernando Cervantes, Devil in the New World; Nancy Farris, Maya Society under Colonial Rule; Steve Stern, Peru’s Indian People’s and the Challenge of Spanish Conquest;
Charles Gibson, Spain in America
and The Aztecs under Spanish Rule:
A History of the Indians of the Valley of Mexico, 1519-1810; Guilllermo Cespedes, The
Early Years; Peggy K. Liss, Mexico
under Spain, 1521-1556; James Lockhart, Spanish
Peru, 1532-1560; D. Sweet and G. Nash, Struggle
and Survival in Colonial America; Louisa Schell Hoberman, Mexico’s
Merchant Elite, 1590-1660; William Taylor, Magistrates
of the Sacred: Priests and Parishioners in Eighteenth-Century Mexico,
and Landlord and Peasant in
Colonial Oaxaca, and Drinking,
Homicide and Rebellion in Colonial Mexican Villages;; Leslie Bethell,
Spanish Colonial America; Clarence H. Haring, The Spanish Empire in America; Mario Góngora, Studies in Colonial History of Spanish America; Enrique Semo, The
Study of Capitalism in Mexico. Its
Origins, 1521-1763; Sabine McCormack, Religion
in the Andes: Vision and Imagination in Early Colonial Peru; John
Phelan, The Millenial Kingdome of the Franciscans in the New World; James
Lockhart, The Nahua after the
Conquest: A Social and Cultural History of the Indians; Anthony
Pagden, The Fall of Natural Man:
The American Indian and the Origins of Comparative Ethnology;
Kenneth Mill, An Evil Lost to
View? An Investigation of Post-evangelisation Andean Religion in
Mid-colonial Peru; Scarlett O’Phelan Godoy, Rebellions
and Revolts in Eighteenth Century Peru and Upper Peru; Steve Stern,
ed., Resistance, Rebellion, and
Consciousness in the Andean Peasant World
V.
Economic and Social Structure of Colonial Latin America
Nov.
11: Silver mining, agricultural endeavors (from haciendas to
plantations)
Burkholder
and Johnson, 134-42, 160-170
Nov.
13-18: Labor systems (encomienda, repartimiento, debt peonage), African
Slavery
Burkholder and Johnson,
107-34
Nov.
20: Trade and Investment: commerce, local and international trade,
integration of indigenous and Spanish economies
Burkholder and
Johnson, 143-160
Film:
Buried Mirror III
Further Reading:
Francois Chevalier, Land
and Society in Colonial Mexico; Woodrow Borah, New Spain’s Century of Depression; L. B. Simpson, The
Encomienda of New Spain; J. H. Rowe, “The Incas under Spanish
Colonial Institutions,” in Hispanic American Historical Review, 37 (1957), pp. 155-99; Peter
Bakewell, Silver Mining and
Society in Colonial Mexico: Zacatecas, 1546-1700, and Silver and Entrepreneurship in Seventeenth Century Potosi: The Life and
Times of Antonio Lopez de Quiroga; David Brading, Miners and Merchants in Bourbon Mexico; Brooke Larson, Colonialism
and Agrarian Transformation in Bolivia: Cochabamba, 1550-1900; Karen
Spalding, Huarochiri: An Andean Society under Inca and Spanish Rule; Luisa
Schell Hoberman and Susan Migden Socolow, Cities
and Society in Colonial Latin America; John Fisher, Silver Mines and Silver Miners in Colonial Peru, 1776-1824; Herbert
Klein, Haciendas and Ayllus: Rural
Society in the Bolivian Andes in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries;
Matto de Turner, Clorinda. Torn
from the Nest. Oxford
University Press, 1999.
VI. Mature and Changing
Colonies
Nov.
25: The Seventeenth Century: A looser grip
Burkholder
and Johnson, 248-271
Paper
due Iparraguirre, Tierra del Fuego
Nov.
27: Thanksgiving break
Dec.
2: The eighteenth century and the Bourbon Reforms
Burkholder
and Johnson, 271-303
Further Reading:
Bourbon period and
Independence: K Maxwell, Conflicts
and Conspiracies: Brazil and Portugal, 1750-1808; A. Whitaker, ed., Latin America and Enlightenment; John Lynch, Spanish Colonial Administration, 1782-1810: The Intendant System in the
Viceroyalty of the Rio de la Plata, and Bourbon
Spain, 1700-1808; Timothy Anna, Spain
and the Loss of Empire; David Brading, Church
and State in Bourbon Mexico and The
First America: The Spanish Monarchy, Creole Patriots, and the Liberal
State, 1492-1867; Lester Langley, The
Americas in the Age of Revolution, 1750-1850; B. Stein and S. Stein,
The Colonial Legacy of Latin
America; Louisa S. Hoberman, Mexico’s
Merchant Elite, 1590-1660; Silver
State and Society; J. I. Israel, Race,
Class and Politics in Colonial Mexico, 1610-1670; Kenneth Andrien, Crisis
and Decline. The Viceroyalty of Peru in the Seventeenth Century and The
Kingdom of Quito, 1690-1830. The State and Regional Development;
John Phelan, The Kingdom of Quito
in the Seventeenth Century. Bureaucratic
Politics in the Seventeenth Century; Anthony McFarlane, Colombia
before Independence. Economy, Society and Politics under Bourbon Reform;
Nils Jacobsen and Hans-Jürgen Puhle, eds., The
Economies of Mexico and Peru during the Late Colonial Period, 1760-1810;
Richard Garner, Economic Growth
and Change in Bourbon Mexico; Colin MacLachlan, Spain’s
Empire in the New World. The
Role of Ideas in Institutional and Social Change; John Fisher, Allan
Kuethe, and Anthony McFarlane, eds., Reform
and Insurrection in Bourbon New Granada and Peru.
For women: Asuncion Lavrin,
ed., Sexuality and Marriage in
Colonial Latin America, and Latin
American Women: Historical Perspectives, and “Women in Convents:
Their Economic and Social Role in Colonial Mexico”; Patricia Seed, To
Love, Honor, and Obey in Colonial Mexico.
Conflicts over Marriage Choices, 1574-1821; Luis Martin, Daughters
of Conquistadores. Women of
the Viceroyalty of Peru; B. Carroll, Liberating
Women’s History; D. Sweet and Nash, Struggle
and Survival in Colonial America; June Hahner, Women
in Latin American History.
For
race relations and slavery: Marvin
Harris, Patterns of Race in the
Americas; Herbert Klein, African
Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean; Magnus Morner, Race Mixture in the History of Latin America; David Cohen and Jack
Greene, eds., Neither Slave nor
Free: The Freedman of African Descent in the Slave Societies of the New
World; Frank Tannenbaum, Slave
and Citizen; A. J. R. Russell-Wood, The
Black Man in Slavery and Freedom in Colonial Brazil; Stuart
Schwartz, Slaves, Peasants, and Rebels: Reconsidering Brazilian Slavery;
Robert Edgar Conrad, ed., Children
of God’s Fire: A Documentary History of Black Slavery in Brazil; The
Americas volume 57, no. 2, (October 2000) special issue: The African
Experience in Early Spanish America.
VII. The Melt Down
Dec.
4: Precursors to independence movements
Burkholder
and Johnson, 304-15
Further Reading:
John
Lynch, Spanish-American
Revolutions, 1808-1826; Russell-Wood, ed., From
Colony to Nation: Essays on the Independence of Brazil; Leslie
Bethell, ed., The Independence of
Latin America; David Bushnell, The
Liberator, Simon Bolivar: Man and Image; Jay Kinsbruner, Independence
in Latin America; Richard Graham, Independence
in Latin America. A Comparative Approach; William Robertson, Rise
of the Spanish American Republics as Told in the Lives of Their
Liberators, Roderick Barman, Brazil.
The Forging of a Nation, 1798-1852.
Dec.
9: Student presentations
Dec.
11: Student presentations
Dec.
20: 1:30-3:30 Final Exam
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