Colonial Latin America (Undergraduate Survey, Syllabus, UMBC, Fall 2017) (original) (raw)

A History of Colonial Latin America from First Encounters to Independence

2021

A History of Colonial Latin America from First Encounters to Independence is a concise and accessible volume that presents the history of the Iberian presence in the Americas, from the era of exploration and conquest to the disruption and instability following independence. This history of the Iberian presence in the Americas contains stories of curiosity, vision, courage, missed communication, miscalculation, insatiability, prejudice, and native collaboration and resistance. Beginning in 1492, Ramírez establishes the context for the era of exploration and conquest that follows. The book then surveys the activities of Cortes and Pizarro and the impact on native peoples, Portuguese activity on the eastern coast of South America, the demographic collapse of the native population, the role of the Catholic Church, and new policy initiatives of the Bourbons who inherited the throne in 1700. The narrative involves Spaniards, Native Americans of innumerable ethnic groups, Moorish, native, and black slaves, and a whole new category of people of mixed blood, collectively known as the castas, acting in the steamy tropics of the lowlands, marching across parched deserts, trekking to oxygen-low mountain summits, and settling all the ecological niches in between. The book includes important primary documents and maps to provide students with even more context to this important part of Latin American history. It will be of interest to students and scholars of Latin American history and culture. Susan Elizabeth Ramírez holds the Neville G. Penrose Endowed Chair of History and Latin American Studies at Texas Christian University, USA. Her research focuses on land tenure and Indigenous peoples during the colonial era.

Syllabus HSTLAC 185 Summer 2017 (University of Washington)

Course description The course attempts to give an overview of Latin American and Caribbean history, from the pre-Columbian period to the present. Through the lens of race, gender, and class, it will study the complexities of how native, pre-contact societies dealt with the shock of conquest, how colonized and enslaved populations resisted and adjusted to Iberian imperial projects, and finally, how these issues are yet to be resolved in the post-independence period, when immigration from other parts of the world continued to make Latin America an increasingly diverse region. With such a vast amount of territory and time to cover, it will be impossible to focus in detail on every single country and event that transpired, but the course attempts to find representative cases that inform our understanding of the history of the region as a whole. Learning objectives • Understanding, analyzing, and critiquing primary sources as the building blocks of historical scholarship. • Identifying the main arguments of secondary sources-i.e., historical scholarship-engage with them, and use them in dialogue with primary sources.

Researching, Reading, and Writing Latin American History: Theory, Method, Politics January 3-4, 2018, University of Maryland

Organized by Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt, University of Maryland Nancy P. Appelbaum, Binghamton University, State University of New York Sponsored by College of Arts and Humanities, University of Maryland, Miller Center for Historical Studies, University of Maryland, Latin American Studies Center, University of Maryland, Americas Initiative, Georgetown University

Syllabus - Slavery in Latin America - Fall 2017

Syllabus developed for 7-week online course with 60 student enrollment. Modifications made for class size. Content covers colonial through modern era (aftermath, remembrance, and forgetting).