 Antigua, Guatemala |
Schedule
| Professor:Jordana Dym |
| Email:jdym@skidmore.edu |
| Phone:580-5272 |
| Office: TLC 326 |
| Office Hours: M, T 2:30-3:30 or by appointment |
HISTORY 108
Colonial Encounters in Latin America
| Class | Date | Topic | Reading Assignment (due on date of class) |
| 1 | 9/4 | Introduction: 1492: An Overview | What is a primary source? |
| OLD & NEW WORLDS COLLIDE (1492-1542) | |||
| 2 | 9/6 | Pre-Columbian Indian Civilizations: Aztec & Maya | **TANG ART MUSEUM** *SOUSTELLE, Aztec Daily Life, 35-47,*POPUL VUH, MILLS, 23-26 |
| 3 | 9/9 | Pre-Columbian Iberian Societies | *Ladero Quesada, "Spain, circa 1492: Social Values & Structures," pp. 96-133; MILLS, 27-33 |
| 4 | 9/11 | Pre-Columbian Indian Civilizations: Inca | MILLS 3-18; Stern,
Chapter 1 (3-26) Recommended: Chronicle of the Incas (1540) |
| 5 | 9/13 | Pre-Columbian Indian Civilizations: Aztec & Maya | *Carrasco Piazana, "The political economy of the Aztec & Inca States", 23-40; Clendinen, Ambivalent Conquests, 139-153 Observation Essay Due |
| 6 | 9/16 | HOLIDAY-Yom Kippur | |
| 7 | 9/18 | Columbus & The New World | **POHNDORF ROOM** Columbus' Logbook (1492) and Letter to King & Queen of Spain (1494?) OR Letter, 1493 |
| 8 | 9/20 | Conquest: From the Victors' Perspective: Mexico | Cortes; *Díaz del Castillo |
| 9 | 9/23 | Discussion Section 1 | Clendinnen, Ambivalent Conquests, 1-56 |
| 10 | 9/25 | Conquest: From the Victors' Perspective: Perú | MILLS 19-22; * Zarate (56-61; 65-91, 97-109; 127-134) |
| 11 | 9/26 | FILM NIGHT Conquest: From the Vanquished Perspective | FILM:
The Other Conquest *Broken Spears, Gaspar A. Chi, Relaciones Geográficas |
| 12 | 9/27 | Individual Meetings | Stern, Chapters 2-3 (27-79) |
| 13 | 9/30 | WORKSHOP: When Worlds Collide | DOCUMENT
1 (IMPACT); McCaa, "Spanish and Nahuatl Views on Smallpox and Demographic Catastrophe in Mexico", Recommended: MILLS, 34-45; Crosby. Columbian Exchange, 35-121 |
| The Colonial Order (1542-1680) | |||
| 14 | 10/2 | Colonial Government & Society: Church, Crown, Conquistador | Clendinnen,
Ambivalent Conquests, 57-129; MILLS 81-89; Colonial Lives
#4, 5 |
| 15 | 10/3 | FILM NIGHT: Religious Women | FILM:
I, The Worst of All Reading: MILLS, 194-213; *Catalina de Erauso, 1-30, 55-67 |
| 16 | 10/4 | Colonial Society: Women & Honor in Spanish Society | *Twinam, "Honor, Sexuality & Illegitimacy," 118-156; Colonial Lives #3, 6, 7 |
| 17 | 10/7 | Discussion Section 3: Colonial Society | Clendinnen, Ambivalent Conquests, 154-189; Colonial Lives # 9, 10 |
| 18 | 10/9 | Individual Meetings | |
| 19 | 10/11 | Colonial Society: The 2 Republics & Africans | MILLS, 52-64; Seed,
"'Are
These Not Also Men? Recommended: Morner & Gibson: "Diego Muñoz Camargo & Segregation Policy of the Spanish Crown"; Love: "Negro Resistance to Spanish Rule in Colonial Mexico" |
| 20 | 10/14 |
Colonial Government & Society II: City & Country under State Control |
Stern, Ch 4 (80-113);
Encomienda
1 ; Encomienda
2; Encomienda
3; New
Laws (1542); Colonial Lives, #2, 4 |
| 21 | 10/16 | WORKSHOP: The First Generation | Myers, "Family Life in Colonial Mexico" , MILLS 105-107; Colonial Lives #11, 13 |
| 22 | 10/18 |
Study Day |
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| 23 | 10/21 | Discussion | DOCUMENT 2: First Generation |
| 24 | 10/23 | Colonial Society: The Economic Base: Hacienda, Plantation, Market & Mine | Stern Ch 6 (138-157); Ferry, "Encomienda, African Slavery & Agriculture in 17c. Caracas"; Colonial Lives #1 |
| 25 | 10/25 | Class & Caste: Indian Culture in Spanish Society | Stern, Ch 5,7 (114-137;
158-183); Colonial Lives # 8 Recommended: Gibson, "The Aztec Aristocracy in Colonial Mexico"; *Saloman, "Indian Women of Early Colonial Quito," 325-341 |
| 26 | 10/28 | Discussion 5 |
MILLS 90-100, 153-164; Zulawski, "Social Differentiation...Urban Indian Women in Colonial Bolivia," |
| 27 | 10/30 | Class & Caste: African Culture in
the New World |
*Lockhart, Spanish
Peru, 171-198; Anderson, "Quilombo
of Palmares" ; Colonial Lives # 20; MILLS 274-281 (Recommended: Kent, "Palmares: An African State in Brazil") |
| 28 | 11/1 | The Commerce of Empire | Boyer, "Mexico in the Seventeenth Century"; MILLS 165-175 |
| 29 | 11/4 | WORKSHOP: THE COLONIAL ORDER | DOCUMENT 3: Colonial Society |
| Challenging the Colonial Order (1680-1814) | |||
| 30 | 11/6 | Breakdown of 2 Republics: Castas | Seed, "Social Dimensions of Race, Mexico City, 1753, MILLS 322-327, 125-131; 147-149, 178-184; Colonial Lives #21 |
| 31 | 11/8 | A Weakening Grasp: Pueblo | MILLS, 147-151; Primary Source (PBS) Spanish Account of Revolt |
| 32 | 11/11 |
A Weakening Grasp: Pirates of the Caribbean |
*Esquemelin; Wills of Port Royal |
| 33 | 11/13 | Rebuilding Empire: Bourbon Reforms I: Securing Frontiers | TBA OR Archer, "Pardos, Indians, and the Army of New Spain: Inter-Relationships and Conflicts, 1780-1810"; MILLS 282-288 |
| 34 | 11/15 | Rebuilding Empire: Bourbon Reforms II: Rethinking Government | Stern: "Bureaucracy and Business in the Spanish Empire, 1759-1804: Failure of a Bourbon Reform in Mexico and Peru"; Burns, "Enlightenment in 2 Brazilian Libraries"; Colonial Lives # 15 |
| 35 | 11/18 | Discussion Section 8 | MILLS, 270-281;
328-333 Recommended: Brading: "Government & Elite in Late Colonial Mexico"; Wu, "The City of Queretaro in 1791" |
| 36 | 11/20 | Rebuilding Empire: Bourbon Reforms III: New Blood, New Society | Brown, "Juan Fermin de Aycinena and the Spirit of Enterprise in the Kingdom of Guatemala"; Colonial Lives # 18, 19 |
| 37 | 11/21 | FILM NIGHT | XICA OR LAST SUPPER |
| 38 | 11/22 | Popular Resistance: The Pasto Riots & Tupac Amaru |
Rebecca
E. Mond,
Indian Rebellion & Bourbon Reform in New Granada, Indian Riots
in Pasto, 1780-1800; Colonial Lives # 16;
MILLS 298-315; 334-338; |
| 39 | 11/25 | WORKSHOP: BOURBON REFORMS | DOCUMENT 4 (Bourbon Era) |
| 40 | 11/27 | Holiday-Thanksgiving | |
| 41 | 11/29 | Holiday-Thanksgiving | |
| 42 | 12/2 | Discussion Section 10 | Video: Burn!; |
| 43 | 12/4 | The Napoleonic Impact: Caribbean | Video: Burn! (conclusion), Reading *Dym, "Napoleon & the Americas" |
| 44 | 12/6 | The Napoleonic Impact: Creole Patriots |
Woodward, "Guatemalan Merchants & National Defense, 1810" Brading, "Republican Hero," pp. 603-620; MILLS 341-346; Colonial Lives #23; |
| 45 | 12/9 | WORKSHOP: CHALLENGES | Bolívar, Jamaica Letter (1815); Recommended: (1821) Plan of Iguala, Treaty of Cordova (Mexico) |
| 46 | 12/11 | Colonial Closure: End of an Era? | TAKE HOME EXAM HANDED OUT |
| 12/18 | TAKE HOME EXAM DUE, 5:30 pm | ||