SCHEDULE (2009)

Page with links to Spanish Readings.

Week 1 (Sept. 8 and 10)            Introduction: What is History?

Thurs.: Read Rampolla, A Pocket Guide to Writing in History, pp. 1-28.
AND Townsend, Malintzin’s Choices, 1-10.

UNIT I:  THE ERA OF CONTACT

Week 2 (Sept. 15 and 17)            America before 1492

Tues.: Andrien, Andean Worlds, pp. ix-39.

By Section: Townsend, Malintzin’s Choices, 11-29.
AND Review Rampolla, 14-15 and read 25-37.

MAP QUIZ 1 IN CLASS THURS. SEPT 17 (9:45-10 a.m.)

Week 3 (Sept. 22 and 24)            Spanish Expansion in Iberia and the Atlantic

Tues.: Bakewell, A History of Latin America, pp. 59-65 (online; required background on Columbus), AND Townsend, Malintzin’s Choices, 30-84.

By Section:  John Cummins, ed., The Voyage of Christopher Columbus (St. Martin's Press, 1992): pp. 93-105 (Oct 11-23), and 140-145 (Dec. 16-18) (online PDF of primary source).
AND Review Rampolla, 9-13.

Week 4 (Sept. 29 and Oct 1)            Spanish Invasions and Indigenous Responses

Tues.: Rampolla, 89-103 (and 104-33 as a reference), Townsend, Malintzin’s Choices, 85-125 and Andrien, Andean Worlds, pp. 37-43 and 193-199.

By Section:  Selected primary documents from Mexico by Díaz, Cortés, and Florentine Codex AND Broken Spears (indigenous). (Online PDFs)

Week 5 (Oct. 6 and 8)            Frontiers and Early Spanish Colonial Society

Tues.: Townsend, Malintzin’s Choices, 126-213, and letter of Lope de Aguirre (online primary source) at http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1561aguirre.html
AND Rampolla, 43-61.

QUIZ 2 IN CLASS ON TUES. OCT. 6 (9:45-10:15)

By Section: Andrien, Andean Worlds, pp. 41-72;
AND Susan E. Ramirez, “Don Melchior Caruarayco: A Kuraka of Cajamarca in 16th-Century Peru,” AND Rolena Adorno, “Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala: Native Writer and Litigant in Early Colonial Peru,” in The Human Tradition, pp. 6-34 and140-165;
AND selections from Guaman Poma, First New Chronicle, 148-56 and 333-347 (online primary source)

Week 6 (Oct. 13 and 15)                        Empire in Theory and Practice

Tues.:  Excerpts from Bartolome de las Casas and Juan Gines de Sepulveda (online primary sources) at:
http://www.columbia.edu/acis/ets/CCREAD/lascasas.htm
AND http://www.columbia.edu/acis/ets/CCREAD/sepulved.htm
AND Rampolla, 61-68.

UNIT II:  THE COLONIAL ORDER

PAPER 1 DUE IN CLASS TH. OCT 15

By Section:   WOMEN AND COLONIALISM: Nahuatl Testament of Ana Juana (Culhuacan, 1580) AND either Ana Maria Presta, “Doña Isabel Sisa: A Sixteenth-Century Indian Woman resisting Gender Inequalities,” OR Christiana Borchart de Moreno, “Victorina Loza: Quiteña Merchant in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century,” in The Human Tradition, pp. 35-50 or 211-228. (Keep in mind the different time periods of each chapter as part of the context.)

Week 7 (Oct. 20 and 22)            Missionaries and the Church

Tues.: Andrien, Andean Worlds, pp. 153-192.

By Section:  Pablo Joseph de Arriaga, The Extirpation of Idolatry in Peru, pp. 113-116 and 165-173, AND “The Witness Francisco Poma y Altas Caldeas of San Pedro de Acas, Cajatambo, Peru, 1657” AND Excerpt from the Story of the Apparition of the Virgin of Guadalupe, 1649 (all online sources).

 Week 8 (Oct. 27 and 29)            Portuguese Colonization of Brazil

Tues: Alida C. Metcalf, “Domingos Fernandes Nobre: ‘Tomacauna,’ a Go-Between in Sixteenth-Century Brazil,” in The Human Tradition, pp. 51-63,
AND “Confession of Domingos Fernandes Nobre” (online document, pp 234-41).

QUIZ 3 IN CLASS ON TUES OCT 27

By Section: Mattoso, To Be a Slave in Brazil, 125-49,
AND Stuart Schwartz, “Resistance and Accommodation in 18th-Century Brazil” (online source),
AND Mary Karasch, “Zumbi of Palmares: Challenging the Portuguese Colonial Order,” in The Human Tradition, pp. 104-120. It is important to read “Zumbi” before today’s class.

Week 9 (Nov. 3 and 5)            Slavery and Race

Tues.: Mattoso, To Be a Slave in Brazil, pp. 85-124 and 153-220 (including Appendix I primary doc).

REWRITE OF PAPER 1 DUE IN CLASS ON THURS. NOV 5

By Section:  The Human Tradition, Chapters 5 or 11, pp. 64-84 OR 194-210 (“The Mysterious Catalina” OR “Pedro de Ayarza”)
AND “A PROTEST TO THE KING: The Caracas City Council Obeys but does not Execute” (online primary source)

Week 10 (Nov. 10 and 12)            Spanish Colonial Economic System

Tues.: Andrien, Andean Worlds, pp. 73-102,
AND 1766 Grievances of the mineworkers of Real del Monte, New Spain (online primary source).

By section: Steve Stern, "Chapter 5: The Indians and Spanish Justice," in Peru's Indian Peoples and the Challenge of Spanish Conquest (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1982), pp. 114-137 (online)

UNIT III:  CHANGES IN IBERIAN COLONIALISM

Week 11 (Nov. 17 and 19)            From Hapsburgs to Bourbons: 17th and 18th-Century Changes

Tues.:  “The Colonial Experience: Introduction” (online)

PAPER 2 DUE IN CLASS ON THURS. NOV. 19

By Section:  George Reid Andrews, "Spanish American Independence," Latin American Perspectives 12:1 (Winter, 1985), pp. 105-132. (through online journals)

Week 12 (Nov. 24 and 26)            Rise of Rebellion

Tues.:   Andrien, Andean Worlds, pp. 193-243,
AND Ward Stavig, “Eugenio Sinanyuca: Militant, Nonrevolutionary Kuraka, and Community Defender,” in The Human Tradition, pp. 241-258,
AND “DOCUMENTS FROM A REBELLION: Túpac Amaru Sparks an Indigenous Uprising in Peru” (online primary source)

Thurs.: Thanksgiving (no class)

Week 13 (Dec. 1 and 3)             Independence

Tues.: Lyman Johnson, “Juan Barbarín: The 1795 French Conspiracy in Buenos Aires,” in The Human Tradition, pp. 259-277.
AND “DOCUMENTS FROM BRAZILIAN CONSPIRACIES: Tooth-pullers and Tailors are Caught in the Act” (online primary source)

QUIZ 4 IN CLASS ON TUES. DEC 1

By section: “THE CRUCIBLE OF WAR: INTRODUCTION” (online)
AND “BOLIVAR'S VISION OF AN ORDERLY REPUBLIC: The Angostura Address” (online primary source)
AND “A REFUGEE’S PETITION: Bolívar’s Sister Shows her Royalist Colors” (online primary source)
AND Chap 16 OR 17 (Miguel Garcia or Angela Batallas) in The Human Tradition, 278-92 or 293-307.

Week 14 (Dec. 8 and 10)            Independence and Nation Building

Tues.:  “BROADSIDES FROM THE WAR: Fighting Begins in New Spain” (online primary source)

QUIZ 5 IN CLASS ON THURS. DEC 10

By section: “The National Experience: Introduction” (online)

Week 15 (Dec. 15)            Colonial Legacies and the Place of Latin America in the World Today

Tues: “CLAIMS ON INDEPENDENCE: Petitioners and Others Invoke the Republican Cause” (online primary source)
AND “THE PADILLA AFFAIR: Racial Politics in Colombia, 1828” (online primary source)

RESEARCH PAPER AND OPTIONAL REWRITE OF PAPER 2
DUE IN CLASS ON TUES. DEC. 15
                                   
Finals Week: TAKE-HOME FINAL EXAM: DUE NO LATER THAN 4 p.m. on MON. DEC. 21

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