History of Latin America, The Colonial Era (-1825)

http://www.hist.umn.edu/~rmccaa/colonial/index.htm

 

Note: Materials on this and subsequent web pages are for educational use only by officially registered students in History 3401, Fall 2000.

  • Syllabus


    Lectures


    Available in three versions: Powerpoint, text outlines and slides click here for technical details.

    Outlines
    (quick download)    		Slides
    (slow download)    		 Lectures Supplementary links DatePowerpoint presentations
    (glacial download)
    Text Introduction Sept. 5 show

    Text Slides Calidad and clase in Spanish America, 17-18th centuriesColonial Lima (1748) Nov. 13show
    Text Slides Colonial economy 17-18th centuries: mining and mercantilism; subsistence and local markets Nov. 11show
    Text Slides Sor. Juana Ines de la Cruz: First Feminist of the Americas Sor Juana's Home page Nov. 6show
    Text Slides Bureaucracy ascendant, Conquerors to bureaucrats 1550- Lope de Aguirre, rebelOct. 28 show
    Text Labor, Silver and Potosi Oct. 23 show
    Text Society of castas: Spanish America, 1550-1650 Oct. 21 show
    Text Demographic Catastrophe: Smallpox, genes versus exploitation and care Smallpox and CatastropheOct. 16 show
    Text Conquest of Peru, 1522-1549 Oct. 14 show
    Text Conquest: Mexico, 1518-1530 Prescott's Conquest of Mexico (1864) 1.4 mbOct. 9 show
    Text Canaries to the Caribbean TainosOct. 7 show
    Text Iberia before 1492 1492 Ongoing VoyageOct. 2 show
    Text The Americas: A Century Before Goddesses Borgia codexSept. 30show


    Links


  • The Goddesses of the Borgia group codexes: The archetypes of the postclassic women

  • 1492: An Ongoing Voyage

  • Martin Behaim Globe, 1492

  • Tainos de Boriken (Puerto Rico)

  • Spanish and Nahuatl Views on Smallpox and Demographic Catastrophe in the Conquest of Mexico

  • Chronology: Conquest of Peru
  • Bartolome de las Casas: A time line

  • Letter from Lope de Aguirre, rebel, to King Philip of Spain, 1561

  • Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz Project
    (La Peor de Todas, video to be shown in class on Nov. 14 will be available for viewing on reserve (PQ7296. J6Z725x 1990 VTP891)

  • African Slave Trade (data for maps shown in class)
    from P.D. Curtin, The Atlantic Slave Trade

  • Colonial Lima as reported by Jorge Juan and Antonio Ulloa in A Voyage to South America (1748)
  • Nordic Explorers: Vikings in America
  • A Note on Tainos: Whither Progress? (Northeast Indian Quarterly, Fall, 1990, pp. 66-77.)

  • W.H. Prescott's History of the Conquest of Mexico (1864) 1.4 mb--the entire book in text form
  • Codex Mendoza