Lecture Outlines
Last year's lecture outlines will be available through a given date; after that date, outlines for 2009 will be revised as necessary.
Week 1: Introduction
September 10: Discussion: What is History?
Week 2: America before 1492
- September 15: Pre-Columbian Andes
- September 17: Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica
Week 3 Spanish Expansion
- September 22: Spain Before 1492
- September 24: Spanish Expansion in the Atlantic
Week 4 Spanish Invasions and Indigenous Responses
- September 29: Analyzing Military Conquest
- October 1: Narrating the Conquest
Week 5 Frontiers and Early Spanish Colonial Society
- October 6 : At the Frontiers of Empire
- October 8: Early Spanish Society: The Encomienda
Week 6 Empire in Theory and Practice
- October 13: Moral and Political Dilemmas of Conquest
- October 15: Women in Colonial Spanish America
Week 7 Missionaries and the Church
- October 20: The Church in Colonial Latin America
- October 22: Colonial Religion: The Many Faces of Mary
Week 8 Portuguese Colonization of Brazil
- October 27: The Portuguese Colonization of Brazil
- October 29: Brazilian Economy: Sugar Palmares: film clip from Quilombo (1984, Director Carlos Diegues)
Week 9 Slavery and Race
- November 3: African Slavery in Colonial Latin America
- November 5 : "Race" in Colonial Latin America
Week 10 Spanish Colonial Economic System
- November 10: Colonial Silver Mining
- November 12: Rural Society in Colonial Spanish America
Week 11 From Hapsburgs to Bourbons: 17th and 18th Centuries
- November 17: Hapsburg and Bourbon Governance
- November 19: Changes in Settlement and Economies
Week 12 Rise of Rebellion
- November 24: Rebellions in the Andes
- November 26: Thanksgiving (no class)
Week 13 Independence, Part I
- December 1: Haitian Revolution
- December 3: Independence I
Week 14 Independence and Nation Building
- December 8: Wars of Independence II
- December 10: Independence III
Week 15 Colonial Legacies and Final Reflections
December 15: Remembering Colonialism
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