Fall 2003 |
Thursdays
4:30-7:00pm |
Tawes 2209 |
http://www.history.umd.edu/Faculty/DWilliams/Fall03/HIST778
Description
| Organization and Requirements | Grading
| Academic Integrity
Reading Availability | Assessing Electronic
Materials | Assigned Readings | Course
Schedule
Prof. Daryle Williams
Department of History
daryle@umd.edu
http://www.history.umd.edu/Faculty/DWilliams
David
C. Driskell Center for the Study of the African Diaspora
2106 Tawes Fine Arts Bldg.
(301) 405-7856
Office Hours: Thursdays 2:00-4:00pm and by appointment
This course offers a broad overview of important historical literature, mainly written in English, about colonial Latin America. The weekly readings and writing assignments have been selected in order to: 1) introduce major concepts, arguments, and figures in the field of colonial Latin American history; 2) appreciate the evolution of the field over the past three decades; 3) sharpen analytical writing; and, 4) allow field concentrators to prepare for comprehensive examinations.
The reading assignments, which cover a variety of topics in colonial history from the Conquest period through the late colonial period, have been selected for their narrative, empirical, methodological, and historiographic value. Each assigned reading should be treated as an individual work of research that illuminates specific issues in Latin American colonial history, as well as a component of a larger set of interrelated questions and approaches.
The writing assignments are intended to sharpen the writing and analytical skills necessary for advanced graduate and postgraduate work.
Classroom discussion will focus on weekly reading assignments, loosely organized around a chronological overview of colonial Ibero-America (from continental and Atlantic perspectives). Each week, the group will discuss a common reading(s).
Once during the semester, each student will lead the discussion of a week's common reading. Individually-assigned readings may also be discussed, based upon time and interest.
On a rotating basis, each student will be expected to write four concise (1000 words maximum) critical reviews of the weekly common reading. The book review should summarize, analyze, and contextualize the main argument of the selected monograph. The regular book reviews published in the Hispanic American Historical Review, the American Historical Review, and H-LATAM should be used as guides.
At the end of the course, each student will be responsible for writing a ten-to-fifteen-page historiographic review essay on 5-6 monographs on a chosen subject related to the colonial period. Up to two books and an additional article/essay from the common readings may be used for the review essay. The other readings should be drawn from outside the common readings. Field concentrators are strongly encouraged to incorporate Spanish- or Portuguese-language texts
This review essay should assess the connections and disjunctures between the chosen monographs, looking for the ways in which subject matter, theoretical models, use of sources, and methodology are presented by individual authors, as well as the collective. Review essays appearing in the Latin American Research Review and the Hispanic American Historical Review should be used as guides.
Final grades will be determined usually the following formula:
Reviews 40% (10% each)
Participation 20%
Final Paper 40%
Active participation and lively discussions enrich everyone's learning experience.
The Code of Academic Integrity guides this and all other courses taught at the University of Maryland. Violations may result in a failing grade and/or referral to a University disciplinary committee.
All assigned readings will be available through course reserves, electronic journal databases, and the University Book Center. There is no expectation that you purchase any of the books available at the Book Center. Rather, you are encouraged to buy books that are most related to your interests and your writing assignments. The Reserves Desk will only hold one copy of each assigned reading. It is important that class participants coordinate their reading schedules so that everyone has an opportunity to read the assigned book before class.
Full-text journal articles and other electronic-format materials cen freely accessed, read, and downloaded from the Database section of the University Libraries homepage. When possible, stable links to these databases are included in the syallabus.
Access to these databases will be automatically authorized from any computer linked to the internet via a Maryland IP address (on campus or dial-up). If you access the University Library's webpage via an ISP other than the University of Maryland (e.g., AOL, Verizon, Earthlink, business and government internet connections), you will need to use MdUSA OR you will need to download special software to mimic a Maryland IP address. For additional information on remote access, consult the Off-Campus Access to Library Resources Guide .
*Bethell, Leslie. ed. Colonial Brazil. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
-----------*____________. Colonial Spanish America. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
Burkholder, Mark and Lyman Johnson. Colonial Latin America. Fourth Edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Lockhart, James and Stuart Schwartz. Early Latin America: A History of Spanish America and Brazil. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983.
*These are reprints of essays originally published in Vols. I-III of the Cambridge History of Latin America, ed. Leslie Bethell
Altman, Ida, "Emigrants and Society: An Approach to the Background of Colonial Spanish America," Comparative Studies in Society and History 30:1 (1988): 170-190.
Bakewell, Peter. "Mining," in Bethell, ed., Colonial Spanish America, pp. 203-249.
Barickman, B.J. A Bahian Counterpoint: Sugar, Tobacco, Cassava, and Slavery in the Recôncavo, 1780-1860. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998.
Bauer, Arnold. "The Church in the Economy of Spanish America: Censos and Depósitos in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries," Hispanic American Historical Review, 63:4 (1983): 707-733.
Bowser, Frederick. "The Church in Colonial Middle America: Non Fecit Taliter Omni National," Latin American Research Review, 25:1 (1990), pp. 137-156.
Brading, David. "Bourbon Spain and its American Empire," in Bethell, ed., Colonial Spanish America, pp. 112-162.
Burns, Kathryn. Colonial Habits: Convents and the Spiritual Economy of Cuzco, Peru. Durham: Duke University Press, 1999.
Cahill, David. "Colour by Numbers: Racial and Ethnic Categories in the Viceroyalty of Peru, 1532-1824," Journal of Latin American Studies, 26:2 (May 1994): 325-346.
Cañizares-Esguerra, Jorge. How to Write the History of the New World: Histories, Epistemologies, and Identities in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World. Stanford: Stanford University, 2001.
Clendinnen, Inga. Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniards in the Yucatán, 1517-1570. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
Cope, R. Douglas. The Limits of Racial Domination: Plebeian Society in Colonial Mexico City, 1660-1720. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1994.
Dean, Carolyn. Inka Bodies and the Body of Christ: Corpus Christi in Colonial Cusco, Peru. Durham: Duke University Press, 1999.
Elliott, J.H. The Old World and the New, 1492-1650. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, [1969] 2003.
Maxwell, Kenneth. "Hegemonies Old and New: The Ibero-Atlantic in the Long Eighteenth Century." In Colonial Legacies: The Problem of Persistence in Latin American History. ed. Jeremy Adelman, 69-90. New York: Routledge, 1999.
Macleod, Murdo. "Aspects of the Internal Economy," in Leslie Bethell, ed., Colonial Spanish America, pp. 315-360.
Pagden, Anthony. "Identity Formation in Spanish America." In Colonial Identity in the Atlantic World, 1500-1800, eds. Nicholas Canny and Anthony Pagden, 51-94. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987.
Schultz, Kirsten. Tropical Versailles: Empire, Monarchy, and the Portuguese Royal Court in Rio de Janeiro, 1808-1821. New York: Routledge, 2001.
Schwartz, Stuart. Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984.
Seed, Patricia. American Pentimento: The Invention of Indians and the Pursuit of Riches. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001.
__________. Ceremonies of Possession in Europe's Conquest of the New World, 1492-1640. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Silverblatt, Irene. Sun, Moon, Witches: Gender Ideologies and Class in Inca and Colonial Peru. Princeton: Princeton University, 1987.
Sweet, James H., Recreating Africa: Culture, Kinship, and Religion in the African Portuguese World, 1441-1770. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003.
Taylor, William. Drinking, Homicide, and Rebellion in Colonial Mexican Villages. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1979.
Townsend, Camila, "Burying the White Gods: New Perspectives on the Conquest of Mexico," American Historical Review 108:3 (June 2003): 659-687.
Twinam, Ann. Public Lives, Private Secrets: Gender, Honor, Sexuality, and Illegitimacy in Colonial Spanish America. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999.
Van Young, Eric. "Mexican Rural History Since Chevalier: The Historiography of the Colonial Hacienda," Latin American Research Review 18:3 (1983): 5-61.
J.H. Elliott. The Old World and the New, 1492-1650. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, [1969] 2003.
Patricia Seed.Ceremonies of Possession in Europe's Conquest of the New World, 1492-1640. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Inga Clendinnen. Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniards in the Yucatán, 1517-1570. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
Camila Townsend, "Burying the White Gods: New Perspectives on the Conquest of Mexico," American Historical Review 108:3 (June 2003): 659-687 [Full-Text on History Cooperative] and ensuing debate on H-LATAM.
Patricia Seed. American Pentimento: The Invention of Indians and the Pursuit of Riches. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001. [Author's Supplemental Materials]
Ida Altman, "Emigrants and Society: An Approach to the Background of Colonial Spanish America," Comparative Studies in Society and History 30:1 (1988): 170-190. [Full-text in JSTOR]
Irene Silverblatt. Sun, Moon, Witches: Gender Ideologies and Class in Inca and Colonial Peru. Princeton: Princeton University, 1987.
Carolyn Dean. Inka Bodies and the Body of Christ: Corpus Christi in Colonial Cusco, Peru. Durham: Duke University Press, 1999.
Stuart Schwartz. Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984.
B.J. Barickman. A Bahian Counterpoint: Sugar, Tobacco, Cassava, and Slavery in the Recôncavo, 1780-1860. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998, excerpts.
Arnold Bauer. "The Church in the Economy of Spanish America: Censos and Depósitos in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries," Hispanic American Historical Review, 63:4 (1983): 707-733. [Full-text in JSTOR]
Peter Bakewell, "Mining," in Bethell, ed., Colonial Spanish America, pp. 203-249.
Murdo Macleod, "Aspects of the Internal Economy," in Leslie Bethell, ed., Colonial Spanish America, pp. 315-360.
Eric Van Young, "Mexican Rural History Since Chevalier: The Historiography of the Colonial Hacienda," Latin American Research Review, 18:3 (1983): 5-61. [Full-Text in JSTOR]
Frederick Bowser. "The Church in Colonial Middle America: Non Fecit Taliter Omni National," Latin American Research Review, 25:1 (1990), pp. 137-156. [Full-Text in JSTOR]
Kathryn Burns. Colonial Habits: Convents and the Spiritual Economy of Cuzco, Peru. Durham: Duke University Press, 1999.
David Cahill, "Colour by Numbers: Racial and Ethnic Categories in the Viceroyalty of Peru, 1532-1824," Journal of Latin American Studies, 26:2 (May 1994): 325-346. [Full-Text in JSTOR]
R. Douglas Cope. The Limits of Racial Domination: Plebeian Society in Colonial Mexico City, 1660-1720. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1994.
William Taylor. Drinking, Homicide, and Rebellion in Colonial Mexican Villages. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1979.
James H. Sweet, Recreating Africa: Culture, Kinship, and Religion in the African Portuguese World, 1441-1770. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003.
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Highly Recommended: David Brading, "Bourbon Spain and its American Empire," in Bethell, ed., Colonial Spanish America, pp. 112-162.
Ann Twinam, Public Lives, Private Secrets: Gender, Honor, Sexuality, and Illegitimacy in Colonial Spanish America. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999
Kenneth Maxwell, "Hegemonies Old and New," in his Naked Tropics: Essays on Empire and Other Rogues, New York: Routledge, 2003, pp. 61-89.
Kirsten Schultz. Tropical Versailles: Empire, Monarchy, and the Portuguese Royal Court in Rio de Janeiro, 1808-1821. New York: Routledge, 2001.