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Required Books

Clendinnen, Inga, Ambivalent Conquests: Maya & Spaniard in Yucatán

Stern, Steven, Peru's Indian People & the Challenge of Spanish Conquest

Robert Boyer & Geoffrey Spurling, Colonial Lives

Mills, Kenneth and William B. Taylor, eds., Colonial Spanish America: A Documentary History (Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 1998)

Other Required Readings

Miguel Angel Ladero Quesada, "Spain, circa 1492: Social Values & Structures" in Stuart B. Schwartz, ed., Implicit Understandings: observing, reporting, and reflecting on the encounters between Europeans and other peoples in the early modern era (New York: Cambridge U. Press, 1994), pp. 96-133;

Jacques Soustelle, "Daily Life of the Aztecs on the Eve of the Spanish Conquest," in Gilbert M. Joseph & Mark D. Szuchman, eds., Ï Saw a City Invincible: Urban Portraits of Latin America

Pedro Carrasco Pizana, "The political economy of the Aztec and Inca states," in The Inca and Aztec states, 1400-1800: anthropology and History, 23-40.

Ann Twinam, "Honor, Sexuality & illegitimacy in Colonial Spanish America," pp. 118156 in Lavrin, edl, Sexuality & Marriage in Colonial Latin America (1989)

James Lockhart, Spanish Peru, 1532-1560: A Colonial Society, "Negros," 171-198

Frank Saloman, "Indian Women of Early Colonial Quito as Seen through their Testaments," The Americas 44:3 (1988), 325-341

Ann Zulawski, "Social Differentiation, Gender, and Ethnicity: Urban Indian Women in Colonial Bolivia, 1640-1725" in Latin American Research Review , pp. 93-113.

David Brading, "Republican Hero," in The First America, 603-620

Additional readings from on-line resources. See schedule.

Primary Sources Used in Class

Extracts from:

Columbus' Logbook & Letters
Córtes' First Letter
Bernal Díaz del Castillo, The True History of the Conquest of New Spain
Agustin de Zarate, The Discovery & Conquest of Peru

Popul Vuh
M. León-Portilla, ed., The Burning Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico

Catalina de Erauso, Lieutenant Nun

Esquemeling, The Buccanneers

Additional readings from on-line resources. See schedule.