Week 1: Introduction
August 23 (Thursday)
READINGS:
- Syllabus
Week 2: Early America I
August 28 (Tuesday) – Charting the Earliest Migrations
READINGS:
- 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).
August 30 (Thursday) – Maya
READINGS:
- Restall and Lane, Chapter 1.
- 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.
Week 3: Early America II
September 4 (Tuesday) – Mexica
READINGS:
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Inga Clendinnen, “The Costs of Courage in Aztec society,” pp. 61-78 in The Mexico Reader.
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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.
September 6 (Thursday) – Inka
READINGS:
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Murra, John. “Cloth, Textile, and the Inca Empire,” in Starn, et. al. eds., The Peru Reader (Durham: Duke University Press, 1995): 55-69.
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Mary Strong, Art, Nature, and Religion in the Central Andes (Austin: Univ. of Texas Press, 2012): pp. 17-58.
Week 4: Old World Antecedents
September 11 (Tuesday) – Castile and Portugal
READINGS:
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Restall and Lane, Chapter 2.
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“Las Siete Partidas: Laws on Jews.”
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“King Ferdinand, Marriage Concessions (1469)” in Jon Cowans, ed. Early Modern Spain: A Documentary History (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003): 7-9.
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“Surrender Treaty of the Kingdom of Granada (1491)” in Cowans, Early Modern Spain: 15-19.
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“Decree of Expulsion of the Jews (1492)” in Cowans, Early Modern Spain: 20-23.
September 13 (Thursday) – Atlantic Africa
READINGS:
- Restall and Lane, Chapter 3.
Week 5: The Early Encounter
September 18 (Tuesday) – Caribbean Conquest
READINGS:
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Restall and Lane, Chapter 4.
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Christopher Columbus’s Log, excerpted in English. Focus on period after Oct. 11.
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The Requerimiento
September 20 (Thursday) – The Critique
READINGS:
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Bartolomé de Las Casas, Brief Account of the Devastation of the Indies, excerpt.
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Antonio Montesinos, “Advent Sermon”
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“The Relación of Fray Ramón Pane (c. 1494-1496)”
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“The Laws of Burgos. 1512-1513”
Week 6: Conquest of Native Empires
September 25 (Tuesday) – Conquest Myths and Realities I
READINGS:
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Restall and Lane, Chapter 5.
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Matthew Restall, et. al., Mesoamerican Voices: Native-Language Writings from Colonial Mexico, Oaxaca, Yucatan, and Guatemala (Cambridge: 2005): Chapter 3.
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“The Spaniards’ Entry into Tenochtitlan,” The Mexico Reader, 97-104.
September 27 (Thursday) – Conquest Myths and Realities II
READINGS:
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Restall and Lane, Chapter 6-7.
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Patricia Seed, “Failing to Marvel: Atahualpa’s Encounter with the Word,” Latin American Research Review 26.1 (1991): 7-32.
Week 7: Exam
October 2 (Tuesday)
READINGS:
- Exam review sheet.
October 4 (Thursday)
FALL BREAK!!!
Week 8: La Otra Conquista
October 9 (Tuesday)
READINGS:
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Restall and Lane, Chapter 10.
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“Orders Given to the Twelve (1523)” in Mills, Taylor, and Graham Colonial Latin America: A Documentary History,” (SR Books, 2004): 59-64.
October 11 (Thursday)
READINGS:
- 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.
Week 9: From Cataclysm to Order
October 16 (Tuesday)
READINGS:
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Restall and Lane, Chapter 8.
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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.
October 18 (Thursday)
READINGS:
- “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.
Week 10: Enslaved and Free Africans
October 23 (Tuesday)
READINGS:
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Restall and Lane, Chapter 9.
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Kris Lane, “Captivity and Redemption: Aspects of Slave Life in early Colonial Quito and Popoyan,” The Americas 57.2 (2000), 225-246.
October 25 (Thursday)
READINGS:
- Jane Landers, “Felipe Edimboro Sues for Manumission, Don Francisco Xavier Sánchez contests (Florida, 1794),” in Colonial Lives, pp. 249-268.
Week 11: Labor and Tribute
October 30 (Tuesday)
READINGS:
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Restall and Lane, Chapter 12.
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Ward Stavig, The World of Túpac Amaru, Ch. 6.
November 1 (Thursday)
READINGS:
- Woodrow Borah, “The Indians of Tejupan Want to Raise Silk on Their Own,” Colonial Lives, 6-10.
Week 12: No class! I will be in London for a conference.
November 6 (Tuesday)
November 8 (Thursday)
Week 13: Gender and Sexuality
November 13 (Tuesday)
READINGS:
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Restall and Lane, Chapter 11.
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Patricia Seed, “Marriage Promises and the Value of a Woman’s Testimony in Colonial Mexico,” Signs 13.2 (Winter, 1988): 146-152.
November 15 (Thursday)
READINGS:
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Ruth Behar, “Sexual Witchcraft, Colonialism, and Women’s Powers,” in Sexuality and Marriage in Colonial Latin America. Lavrin, ed. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press, 1992.
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Richard Boyer, “Catarina María Complains that Juan Teoia Forcibly Deflowered Her (Mexico, 1693)” in Colonial Lives: 155-165.
Week 14: From Kingdom to Colony
November 20 (Tuesday)
READINGS:
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Restall and Lane, Chapter 13.
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“José de Gálvez’s Decrees for the King’s Subjects in Mexico (1769, 1778)” in Mills, et. al., Colonial Latin America, pp. 270-273.
November 22 (Thursday)
READINGS:
None! Have a great Thanksgiving!
Week 15: Late Colonial Rebellions
November 27 (Tuesday)
READINGS:
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Restall and Lane, Chapter 14.
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Elizabeth Penry, “Letters of Insurrection: The Rebellion of the Communities (Charcas, 1781)” in Colonial Lives: 201-215.
November 29 (Thursday)
READINGS:
- 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.)
Week 16: Independence
December 4 (Tuesday)
READINGS:
- Restall and Lane, Chapter 15.