schedule

• resources to read better
• Week 1 – Welcome (January 14)
• Week 2 – Situating Andean History (January 21)
• Week 3 – The Inka (January 28)
• Week 4 – Chronicling Conquest (February 4)
• Week 5 – The 19th Century Narrative (February 11)
• Week 6 – New Conquest History (February 18)
• Week 7 – The Regional Approach (February 25)
• Week 8 – Religion, Extirpation, Inquisition (March 4)
• Week 9 – Literacies, European and Indigenous (March 11)
• Week 10 – Spring Break (March 18)
• Week 11 – Africans in the Andes (March 25)
• Week 12 – Gender, Ethnicity, Economy (April 1)
• Week 13 – Reform in the 18th Century (April 8)
• Week 14 – Age of Insurrection (April 15)
• Week 15 – Gender, Law, Independence (April 22)

resources to read better

A quick note on reading for this class… We have a lot of reading assigned for this course, more than some of you may be accustomed to. Reading well as a graduate student is an art, and a learned behavior. It’s not something that you intuit simply by being literate. Here are a few resources to help you strategize your reading for this semester (and, for that matter, in preparing for comps).

• W. Caleb McDaniel, How to Read for History
• Paul Edwards, How to Read a Book (pdf)
• From William Cronon’s Learning to Do Historical Research, Cathy DeShano and Emma Schroeder’s The Pleasures of Note-Taking

Week 1 – Welcome (January 14)

• Lockhart and Schwartz, ELA
• Lockhart, “Social History of ELA”

Week 2 – Situating Andean History (January 21)

• Mark Thurner, History’s Peru (MUSE)

Week 3 – The Inka (January 28)

• Dean, A Culture of Stone
• Niles, The Shape of Inca History (on MUSE)

Week 4 – Chronicling Conquest (February 4)

• Titu Cusi Yupangi, An Inca Account of the Conquest of Peru
• Pedro Cieza de Leon, The Discovery and Conquest of Peru

Week 5 – The 19th Century Narrative (February 11)

• Prescott, History of the Conquest of Peru or
• Hemming, The Conquest of the Incas

Week 6 – New Conquest History (February 18)

• Peter Gose, Invading as Ancestors
• Gonzalo Lamana, Domination without Dominance

Week 7 – The Regional Approach (February 25)

• Stern, Peru’s Indian Peoples
• Cook and Cook, People of the Volcano

Week 8 – Religion, Extirpation, Inquisition (March 4)

• Mills, Idolatry and Its Enemies
• Silverblatt, Modern Inquisitions

Week 9 – Literacies, European and Indigenous (March 11)

• Rama, The Lettered City
• Rappaport and Cummins, Beyond the Lettered City (MUSE)

Week 10 – Spring Break (March 18)

• None!!

Week 11 – Africans in the Andes (March 25)

• O’Toole, Bound Lives (MUSE)
• Bryant, Rivers of Gold, Lives of Bondage

Week 12 – Gender, Ethnicity, Economy (April 1)

• Gauderman, Women’s Lives in Colonial Quito (MUSE)
• Mangan, Trading Places

Week 13 – Reform in the 18th Century (April 8)

• Adam Warren, Medicine and Politics in Colonial Peru (MUSE)
• Charles Walker, Shaky Colonialism

Week 14 – Age of Insurrection (April 15)

• John Leddy Phelan, The People and the King (MUSE)
• Ward Stavig, The World of Tupac Amaru

Week 15 – Gender, Law, Independence (April 22)

• Sarah Chambers, From Subjects to Citizens
• Chad Black, Limits of Gender Domination (MUSE)