Introduction:
Lectures:
8/18: Course Welcome (in class)
8/23: Charting the Earliest Americans (in class) - slides
Readings:
Burkholder and Johnson, Chapter 1.
Mann, Charles C. “1491” The Atlantic Monthly (March 2002).
Stix, Gary. “The Migration History of Humans: DNA Study Traces Human Origins across the Continents.” Scientific American Magazine (July 2008).
Handout on Primary and Secondary Sources.
Early America I:
Lectures:
8/25 Maya Lives (online)
8/30 Mexica Imperialism (in class) - slides
Readings:
Thompson, J. Eric. “The Meaning of Maize for the Maya.” in Gilbert M. Joseph and Timothy J. Henderson, eds., The Mexico Reader: History, Culture, Politics (Durham: Duke University Press, 2002), pp. 86-91.
Anonymous. “The Popul Vuh.” In Joseph and Henderson, eds., The Mexico Reader, pp. 79-85.
Roberts, David, Wolfgang Kaehler, and Anne Bolen. “Secrets of the Maya: Deciphering Tikal.” Smithsonian 35.4 (July 2004): 42-48.
Inga Clendinnen, “The Costs of Courage in Aztec society,” pp. 61-78 in The Mexico Reader.
Burkhardt, Louise M. “Mexica Women on the Home Front: Housework and Religion in Aztec Mexico” in Schroeder, Susan et al. Indian Women of Early Mexico, (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), pp. 25-54.
Early America II:
Lectures:
9/1 Inca Imperial Culture (online)
9/6 Labor Day - no class
Readings:
Gordon Brotherson, “Tahuantinsuyu,” Book of the Fourth world. Reading the Native Americans Through their Literature (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992): 193-211.
Irene Silverblatt, “Moon, Sun, Witches”, pp. 34-48 in Starn, et. al, The Peru Reader (Durham: Duke University Press, 1995).
Old World Antecedents:
Lectures:
9/8 From Convivencia to Reconquista (online)
9/13 Projections (in class) - slides
Readings:
“Ibn Abd-el-Hakem: The Islamic Conquest of Spain.”
“Las Siete Partidas: Laws on Jews.”
“King Ferdinand, Marriage Concessions (1469)” in Jon Cowans, ed. Early Modern Spain: A Documentary History (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003): 7-9.
“Surrender Treaty of the Kingdom of Granada (1491)” in Cowans, Early Modern Spain: 15-19.
“Decree of Expulsion of the Jews (1492)” in Cowans, Early Modern Spain: 20-23.
The Early Encounter:
Lectures:
9/15 Caribbean Conquest (online)
9/20 First history255/contacts (in class) - slides
Readings:
Burkholder and Johnson, Chapter 2.
Christopher Columbus’s Log, excerpted in English. Focus on period after Oct. 11.
Antonio Montesinos, “Advent Sermon”
“The Relación of Fray Ramón Pane (c. 1494-1496)”
“The Laws of Burgos. 1512-1513”
The Conquest of Native Empires:
Lectures:
9/22 Conquest Myths and Realities I (online)
9/27 Conquest Myths and Realities II (in class)
Readings:
Lockhart and Otte, Letters and People of the Spanish Indies: 16th Century (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1976), selections.
Matthew Restall, et. al., Mesoamerican Voices: Native-Language Writings from Colonial Mexico, Oaxaca, Yucatan, and Guatemala (Cambridge: 2005): Chapter 3.
“The Spaniards’ Entry into Tenochtitlan,” The Mexico Reader, 97-104.
Exam I - 9/29 (in class)
Film: La Otra Conquista - 10/4, 10/6 (in class)
Readings:
“Orders Given to the Twelve (1523)” in Mills, Taylor, and Graham Colonial Latin America: A Documentary History,” (SR Books, 2004): 59-64.
J. Michael Francis. “In the Service of God, I Order these Temples of Idolatrous Worship Razed to the Ground”: Extirpation of Idolatry and the Search for the Santuario Grande of Iguaque (Columbia, 1595)” in Colonial Lives, pp. 39-53.
Bartolomé de Las Casas, Brief Account of the Devastation of the Indies, excerpt.
From Cataclysm to Order:
Lectures:
10/11 Taming the Conquest (in class - slides)
10/13 Institutions of Rule and Religion (online)
10/18 The Inquisition (in class - slides)
Readings:
Burkholder and Johnson, Chapter 3.
Suzanne Alchon, “Colonialism, Disease, and the Spanish Conquest of the Carribbean, Mesoamerica, and the Central Andes,” in A Pest in the Land: New World Epidemics in a Global Perspective (Univ. of NM Press, 2003): 60-82.
“The New Laws”
J.L Phelan, “Authority and Flexibility in the Spanish Imperial Bureaucracy” Administrative Science Quarterly, Vol. 5, No. 1, Special Issue on Comparative Public Administration. (Jun., 1960), pp. 47-65. (Available through the library website.)
Jacqueline Holler, “The Spiritual and Physical Ecstasies of a Sixteenth-Century Beata: Marina de San Miguel Confesses before the Mexican Inquisition.” Colonial Lives, pp. 77-100.
Colonial Economy - Labor and Production
Lectures:
10/20 Tribute, Tax, Labor (online)
10/25 Mining (in class - slides)
Readings:
Burkholder and Johnson, Chapter 4-5.
Woodrow Borah, “The Indians of Tejupan Want to Raise Silk on Their Own,” Colonial Lives, 6-10.
Ward Stavig, The World of Túpac Amaru, Ch. 6.
Slave and Free Africans
Lectures:
10/27 The Atlantic Slave Economy (online)
11/1 Varieties of Slave Experience (in class - slides) {PAPER DUE!!!}
Readings:
Burkholder and Johnson, Chapter 6.
Jane Landers, “Felipe Edimboro Sues for Manumission, Don Francisco Xavier Sánchez contests (Florida, 1794),” in Colonial Lives, pp. 249-268.
Kris Lane, “Captivity and Redemption: Aspects of Slave LIfe in early Colonial Quito and Popoyan,” The Americas 57.2 (2000), 225-246. (Available through the library website.)
Gender and Sexuality
Lectures:
11/3 Prescriptions and Practices (online)
11/8 Marriage and Family (in class - slides)
Readings:
Burkholder and Johnson, Chapter 7.
Patricia Seed, “Marriage Promises and the Value of a Woman’s Testimony in Colonial Mexico,” Signs 13.2 (Winter, 1988): 146-152. (Available through the library website.)
Lavrin, Asunción. “Sexuality in Colonial Mexico: A Church Dilemma.” Pp. 47-95 in, Sexuality and Marriage in Colonial Latin America. Lavrin, ed. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press, 1992. If that link gives you problems, try this one.
Richard Boyer, “Catarina María Compains that Juan Teoia Forcibly Deflowered Her (Mexico, 1693)” in Colonial Lives: 155-165.
Order and Disorder
Lectures:
11/10 An Uneasy Peace (online)
11/15 Bourbon and Pombaline Reforms (in class - slides)
Readings:
Burkholder and Johnson, Chapter 8.
Ann Twinam, “Drinking, Gambling, and Death on a Colonial Hacienda (Quito, 1768)” 156-159 in Colonial Lives.
“José de Gálvez’s Decrees for the King’s Subjects in Mexico (1769, 1778)” in Mills, et. al., Colonial Latin America, pp. 270-273.
Steinar A. Saether, “Bourbon Absolutism and Marriage Reform in Late Colonial Spanish America,” The Americas 59.4 (April 2003): 475-509. (Available through the library website.)
Late Colonial Rebellion
Lectures:
11/17 Death and Taxes (online)
11/22 Pan-Andean Uprisings (in class - )
Readings:
Burkholder and Johnson, Chapter 9
Elizabeth Penry, “Letters of Insurrection: The Rebellion of the Communities (Charcas, 1781)” in Colonial Lives: 201-215.
David T. Garrett, “His Majesty’s Most Loyal Vassals”: The Indian Nobility and Túpac Amaru,” Hispanic American Historical Review, 84:4 (2004): 575-617. (Available through the library website.)
Towards Independence
Lectures:
11/24 The Bonaparte Crisis (online)
11/29 An Anti-colonial Revolution? (in class - slides)
Readings:
Burkholder and Johnson, Chapter 10.
12/3 8:00am-10:00am Final Exam