TOPIC SCHEDULE and ASSIGNMENTS
Jan 20 Introduction, Current Situation
Read: Chasteen, Born in Blood and Fire: Introduction.
Conquest and Encounters
Jan 22, 25, 27: Conquest and Invasion of the America
Readings: Chasteen, Born in Blood and Fire: Ch. 1
Jan 27 Movie: The Aztec Empire
JAN 29: MAP QUIZ
Jan 29, Feb 1: The Amerindians Changing World
Readings: Chasteen, Born in Blood and Fire: Ch. 2
Feb 3: Movie: The Americas
Feb 5, 8: New People and Their World
Readings: Ann Twinam, “Racial Passing,” in Smolenski & Humphrey, New World Orders (paid attention to pages 249 to 261) (ECR)
Feb 10, 12, 17,19: New World Empires
Readings: Revise Chasteen, Born in Blood and Fire: Ch. 2
Alejandro de la Fuente, Havana and the Atlantic in the Sixteenth Century (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008), ch. 2-3 (ECR)
Laura Nater, “Colonial Tobacco: Key Commodity,” in From Silver to Cocaine: Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500-2000 Ed. Steven Topik (Duke University Press, 2006), ch. 4. (ECR)
Feb 22, 24: Slavery and Society
Readings: Alejandro de la Fuente, Havana and the Atlantic in the Sixteenth Century, ch. 6 (ERC)
Age of Revolutions and Nation-State Formation
Feb 26 Movie: Egalite for All
March 1, 3, 5: Reforms, Late Colonial Culture, Shifting Fortunes
Readings: Ann Twinam, finish her article in Smolenski & Humphrey, New World Orderski (ECR)
March 8, 10, 12: Independence?: Elitist Movements versus popular revolts
Readings: Chasteen, Born in Blood and Fire, ch. 4
March 14-21 Spring Recess
March 22, 24: Republican Chaos and Limits of Liberalism
Readings: Chasteen, Born in Blood and Fire, ch. 5
MARCH 24 MIDTERM IS DUE IN CLASS
March 26, 29: Progress and Modernization (Central America and Mexico)
Readings: Chasteen, Born in Blood and Fire, ch. 6.
Frederick Stirton Weaver. “Reform and (Counter) Revolution in Post-Independence Guatemala: Liberalism, Conservatism, and Postmodern Controversies,” Latin American Perspectives, Vol. 26, No. 2, Reassessing Central America’s Revolutions, (Mar., 1999), pp. 129-158. (ECR)
Brian R. Hamnett. “Liberalism Divided: Regional Politics and the National Project during the Mexican Restored Republic, 1867-1876,” The Hispanic American Historical Review, Vol. 76, No. 4, (Nov., 1996), pp. 659-689. (ECR)
March 31, April 2: The Brazilian Empire
Readings: Emilia Viotti Da Costa, The Brazilian Empire. Myths and Histories (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina [1985] 2000), ch. 1, 3, 6 (ECR)
Nationals Identities and Transformations
April 5, 7, 9: Neocolonialism and Economic Modernization
Readings: Chasteen, Born in Blood and Fire, Ch. 7
Readings: Jean H. Delaney and Jeane H. Delaney. “Imagining “El Ser Argentino”: Cultural Nationalism and Romantic Concepts of Nationhood in Early Twentieth-Century Argentina,” Journal of Latin American Studies, Vol. 34, No. 3, (Aug., 2002), pp. 625-658. (ECR)
April 12, 14: Latin America and The United States
Readings: Chasteen, Born in Blood and Fire: Ch. 8
April 16: The Mexican Revolution
Michael J. Gonzales. “U.S. Copper Companies, the Mine Workers’ Movement, and the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1920,” The Hispanic American Historical Review, Vol. 76, No. 3, (Aug., 1996), pp. 503-534. (ECR)
April 19, 21: Nationalism and Populism
Readings: Chasteen, Born in Blood and Fire: pp. 229-246
April 23 Early Cold War and Latin America
Readings: Chasteen, Born in Blood and Fire, pp.246-273
April 26 Socialist Revolutions (Cuba)
April 28 Movie: Fidel Castro and the Making of a Revolution
April 30, May 3 Counter-Revolutions and Alternative Visions
Readings: Chasteen, Born in Blood and Fire, pp. 274-277, ch.10
Phillip Berryman, Liberation Theology: The Essential Facts About the Revolutionary Movement in Latin America and Beyond (Pantheon Books, 1987), ch. 7-9 (ECR)
May 5, 7: Democracies and Current Conditions
Readings: Chasteen, Born in Blood and Fire, 11
WED MAY 12 FINAL EXAM AT 8:30 AM TO 10:30 AM
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