DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
MODULE HANDBOOK
2010-2011
ETHNICITY AND CITIZENSHIP IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY
LATIN AMERICA
Convenor: Dr Guy Thomson
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Table of Contents
Context of Module
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Module Aims
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Intended Learning Outcomes
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Syllabus Listing
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Illustrative Bibliography
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Context of Module
This module, taught in the Spring Term, may be taken by students on the MA in the
History of Race in the Americas, the MA in History, or taught Master's students outside
the History Department.
Module Aims
The module provides an opportunity to explore the relationship between native
Americans and the emerging system of republican national states during the
Nineteenth Century. The course will enable students to observe how native Americans
related to states shaped along principles of economic individualism and egalitarian
citizenship. Focussing on such issues such as elections, taxation, common land
privatisation, military service and inter-ethnic warfare, the course will enable students
to focus upon particular ethnic groups (Nahua, Maya and Quechua-Aymara) within
various regional contexts (Mexico, Guatemala and Peru-Bolivia). The primary
analytical focus will be on native leadership and how leaders responded to the
transition from colonial to republican rule.
Intended Learning Outcomes
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to gain a familiarity with the recent historiography on the subject.
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to gain experience in seminar discussion, including the formal presentation of
ideas and interpretations in a seminar context.
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to work independently on a 5,000 essay on a subject chosen and framed in the
light of the advanced literature in this area; to construct bibliographies from
books and articles; to gather evidence and use it to shape a cogent and
coherent analytical discussion; and, where appropriate, to deploy evidence
from primary sources.
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Seminar Listing
Seminar 1:
Indians under colonial rule
Seminar 2:
Indians and the Constitution of Cadiz
Seminar 3:
The Indian republic under republican government, 1820-1864.
Seminar 4:
The Caste Wars of Yucatan and Chiapas.
Seminar 5:
Indians and patriotism in Mexico and Peru.
Seminar 6:
Land privatisation, the Indian community and the onset of rural
capitalism.
Seminar 7:
Liberal Revolution and Indian rebellion, 1900-1930.
Seminar 8:
Nationalism, Indigenismo and the Indian.
Illustrative Bibliography
Arij Ouweneel and Simon Miller, eds., The Indian Community of Colonial Mexico
Fifteen Essays on Land Tenure, Corporate Organisations, Ideology and Village Politics
William Taylor, Drinking, Homicide and Rebellion in Colonial Mexican Villages
Peter Guardino, Peasants, Politics, and the Formation of Mexico's National State
Guerrero, 1800-1857
Terry Rugeley, Yucatan's Peasantry and the Origins of the Caste War
Robert H Jackson, ed, Liberals, the Church and Indian Peasants. Corporate Lands and
the Challenge of Reform in Nineteenth-Century Spanish America
Florencia Mallon, Peasant and Nation The Making of Post-Colonial Mexico and Peru
Guy Thomson (with David LaFrance), Political Patriotism and Popular Liberalism in
Mexico Francisco Lucas and the Puebla Sierra
Greg Grandin, The Blood of Guatemala A History of Race and Nation
Murdo MacLeod and Robert Wasserstrom, (eds.) Spaniards and Indians in
Southeastern Mesoamerica
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Steve Stern, ed., Resistance, Rebellion and Consciousness in the Andean Peasant
World
Charles Walker, Smoldering Ashes Cuzco and the Creation of Republican Peru 17801840
Mark Thurner, From Two Republics to One Divided
Marisol de la Cadena, Indigenous Mestizos The Politics of Race and Culture in Cuzco,
Peru, 1919-1991
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