Spanish Readings
(Readings in Spanish bolded)

Week 1            Introduction

Thurs.: Read Rampolla, A Pocket Guide to Writing in History, pp. 1-28. (Additional pages will be assigned in sections throughout the semester.) And Townsend, Malintzin’s Choices, 1-10.

Week 2            America before 1492

Tues.: Andrien, Andean Worlds, pp. 1-39.

By Section: Townsend, Malintzin’s Choices, 11-29

Week 3             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:  Cristobal Colon, Diario de a bordo, Ed. Luis Arranz (Madrid: Historia 16, 1985), pp. 88-106 (Oct 10-23) and 151-158 (Dec. 16-20). (Online).

Week 4             Spanish Invasions and Indigenous Responses

Tues.: Townsend, Malintzin’s Choices, 85-125 and Andrien, Andean Worlds, pp. 37-39 and 193-199.

By Section:  Selected documents from Mexico by Díaz, Cortés, and Florentine Codex/Broken Spears (indigenous). Bernal Díaz del Castillo, Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva Espaûa (Madrid: Instituto “Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo,” 1982), pp. 69-70, 80-82, 180-83, and 384-93; Hernán Cortés, Cartas de Relación, ed. Mario Hernández (Madrid: Historia 16, 1985), Selections from Segunda Carta, pp.  113-123 and 247-51; and Miguel León-Portilla, ed., Visión de los vencidos: Relaciones indígenas de la conquista (Mexico City: Universidad Autónoma de México, 1972), pp. 96-102, 129-38.  (Online PDFs)

Week 5            Frontiers and Early Spanish Colonial Society

Tues.: Townsend, Malintzin’s Choices, 126-213, and Document by Lope de Aguirre at http://www.lrc.salemstate.edu/aske/texts/agirre.htm

By Section: Andrien, Andean Worlds, pp. 41-72; and Susan E. Ramirez, “Don Melchior Caruarayco: A Kuraka of Cajamarca in Sixteenth-Century Peru,” in The Human Tradition, pp. 6-34.

Week 6                         Empire in Theory and Practice

Tues.:  Excerpts from Bartolome de las Casas and Juan Gines de Sepulveda at:
http://www.columbia.edu/acis/ets/CCREAD/lascasas.htm and
http://www.columbia.edu/acis/ets/CCREAD/sepulved.htm and
Rolena Adorno, “Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala: Native Writer and Litigant in Early Colonial Peru,” in The Human Tradition, 140-165, and
Selections from Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, Nueva Corónica y Buen Gobierno (Caracas: Biblioteca Ayacucho, 1980), Vol. 1, pp. 324-335, and Vol. 2, pp. 328-353. (online).

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             Missionaries and the Church

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

By Section: Pablo Joseph de Arriaga, La Extirpación de la idolatría en el Piru (1621) (Cuzco: Centro de Estudios Regionales Andinos “Bartolomé de las Casas,” 1999), pp. 124-26 and 169-176.  “The Witness Francisco Poma y Altas Caldeas of San Pedro de Acas, Cajatambo, Peru, 1657” (255-68), and Excerpt from the Nahuatl Story of the Apparition of the Virgin of Guadalupe, 1649, “Nican Mopohua,” in  Testimonios históricos guadalupanos (Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1982), pp. 26-35. (All these are primary documents available as pdfs on the course website).

 Week 8             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, “Confession of Domingos Fernandes Nobre” (online document, pp 234-41).

By Section: Mattoso, To Be a Slave in Brazil, 125-49, documents on rebellion (handout), 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          Slavery and Race

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

By Section:  The Human Tradition, Chapters 5 or 11, pp. 64-84 OR 194-210 (“The Mysterious Catalina” OR “Pedro de Ayarza”).

Week 10            Spanish Colonial Economic System

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

Thurs: 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)

Week 11             From Hapsburgs to Bourbons: 17th and 18th-Century Changes

Tues.:  PAPER 2 DUE IN CLASS ON TUES. NOV. 11

By Section:  George Reid Andrews, "Spanish American Independence," Latin American Perspectives 12:1 (Winter, 1985), pp. 105-132. (through online journals)
             
Week 12             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 Edicts and letter of Tupac Amaru and Sentence against him by Visitador Areche in Colección documental del bicentenario de la revolución emancipadora de Tdpac Amaru (Lima: Comisión Nacional del Bicentenario de la Rebelión Emancipadora de Tdpac Amaru, 1980-1981), Vol. 1, p. 519 and Vol. 3, pp. 99-101 and 269-277 (online).

By Section: Lyman Johnson, “Juan Barbarín: The 1795 French Conspiracy in Buenos Aires,” in The Human Tradition, pp. 259-277.

Week 13             Independence

Tues.: Bakewell, A History of Latin America, pp. 367-72 (online),
AND Simón Bolívar, “Discurso del Libertador al Congreso Constituyente de Bolivia (1826)” (online),
AND Chap 16 OR 17 (Miguel Garcia or Angela Batallas) in The Human Tradition, 278-92 or 293-307.

Thurs.: Thanksgiving (no class)

Week 14            Independence and Beyond

Tues.:  José María Morelos, “Sentimientos de la nación” (1813 document online).

Thurs.:            QUIZ 5 IN CLASS

Week 15                       Final Reflections

            Tues:            José María Arguedas, “El Sueño del Pongo” (online)

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