History 3371
Colonial Latin America
Spring 2013
Dr. Kristin Dutcher Mann
Telephone: 569-8152
E-mail: kdmann@ualr.edu
Office: Stabler Hall 604L
Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:30-10:30, or please e-mail or call to
make an appointment at a time of your convenience.
Course Description
This course is a survey of Spanish and Portuguese America from pre-Columbian
times until the independence movements of the mid-nineteenth century. The
course explores the cultures of indigenous peoples, Europeans, and Africans in
colonial Mexico and South America. Students will consider the social, cultural,
economic, political, and demographic formation of Latin America in the colonial
period through an examination of systems of land ownership, labor, material life,
religion, ethnicity, class, gender relations, biological and ecological change,
administrative structures, colonial frontiers, popular culture, and protest.
Department Objectives
Students who complete a history major at UALR will be able to
• Understand the difference between primary and secondary sources, analyze a
primary source as a product of a particular historical context, and respond
critically to a secondary source, taking into account the primary sources used by
the historian, the historian’s methodology, the logic of the argument, and other
major interpretations in the field.
• Present historical analysis and arguments in a clear written form, including the
ability to construct an argument by marshaling evidence in an appropriate and
logical fashion.
• Write a research paper that asks a significant historical question, answers it
with a clear thesis and a logical argument, supports it with both primary and
secondary sources documented according to the standards of the Chicago
Manual of Style.
• Write in clear and artful prose with the grammar and spelling associated with
formal composition.
Texts to purchase
Erin O’Connor & Leo Garofalo, Documenting Latin America volume 1. Boston:
Prentice Hall, 2011.
David G. Sweet & Gary B. Nash, Struggle & Survival in Colonial America.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981.
Other weekly readings will be posted in pdf form on Blackboard.
Grading
Your grade in this course will be based on the following items:
Cumulative Final Exam: 100 points (essays/ key terms)
Papers (2): 75 points each = 150 points (may be rewritten)
Weekly wiki & discussion participation(15): 10 points each = 150 points
All assignments except for the final exam will be submitted/created on
Blackboard. Please ask if you are unfamiliar with the submission process for
assignments in Blackboard.
There will be a total of 400 points possible this semester.
A=360-400 B=320-359 C=280-319 D=240-279 F=under 240
Attendance and Classroom Etiquette
Attendance in class is essential to doing well in the course. Please arrive on time
for class. Turn off cell phones and beepers before entering the classroom. If you
must leave early for any reason, or if you know you will be absent, please inform
me in advance. Students who miss two consecutive weeks, or 4 consecutive
courses, without notifying the instructor will be administratively dropped from the
course. The last day for withdrawal from the course without a grade is Tuesday,
3/12.
Disability Support Services
It is the policy of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock to create inclusive
learning environments. If there are aspects of the instruction or design of this
course that result in barriers to your inclusion or to accurate assessment of
achievement–such as time-limited exams, inaccessible web content, or the use
of non-captioned videos–please notify the instructor as soon as possible.
Students are also welcome to contact the Disability Resource Center, telephone
501-569-3143 (v/tty). For more information, visit the DRC website at
http://ualr.edu/disability/.
Cheating and Plagiarism
Cheating and plagiarism are serious offenses. All sources, including information
gathered on the Internet, must be correctly cited in weekly assignments, papers,
and essay exams. Anyone who is involved in cheating or plagiarism will not
receive credit for the assignment. In addition, that person may be turned over to
the Integrity and Grievance Committee for disciplinary action. See Section VI of
your student handbook for more details.
This syllabus and the course schedule will be posted and updated on
Blackboard, http://blackboard.ualr.edu.
Course Schedule
Date
Topic
UNIT 1: Worlds
Collide
What characteristics
define a civilization?
What happened when
cultures collided?
Readings (to be
completed by this
date)
Assignments due
1/15
1/17
1/22 and 1/24
1/29 and 1/31
2/5 and 2/7
UNIT 2: Politics,
Economics, and
Society
2/12 and 2/14
2/19 and 2/21
2/26 and 2/28
3/5 and 3/7
3/12 and 3/14
3/26 and 3/28
Course Introduction,
geography; 15th-16th
century Iberia
O&G Introduction
“Coexistence in
Medieval Spanish
Empires” on
Blackboard
Pre-Columbian
“Aztec Stone of the
Week 1wiki/discussion
Overview
Five Eras” & “The Inca
Empire and its Subject
Peoples” (on
Blackboard)
Pre-Columbian
Burkholder & Johnson, Pre-Columbian site
Civilizations
1-23 (on Blackboard) presentations (week 2
discussion points)
Conquests of the
textbook accounts of Paper #1 assignment
Americas
Columbus
handed out
O&G chapters 1,2 (1- Week 3 wiki/discussion
24)
Thursday
Effects of conquest/ O&G chapters 4,6 (35Week 4 wiki/disc
Columbian Exchange
44 and 53-68)
Thursday
S&N Isabel Moctezuma
(214-227)
How did the Spanish
and Portuguese
colonial systems
operate? How did
individuals and groups
struggle and survive
within these systems?
Political Bureaucracy O&G - ch 8-9 (75-88) Paper #1 due Tuesday;
and the Church
S&N Martín Ocelotl
Week 5 wiki/disc
(128-141) and Diego
Thursday
Vasicuio (38-48)
Population, labor and O&G - chapters 5, 12
Week 6 wiki/disc
the slave trade
(45-56 and 111-117)
Thursday
S&N - Juan de Morga
and Gertrudis de
Escobar 165-188
S&N Micaela Angela
Labor Systems
Carillo 362-375,
Week 7 wiki/disc
Hernando de Valencia
Thursday
(311-330)
Colonial Industries and O&G ch 11, 22 (97-110
Week 8 wiki/disc
Economy
and 193-200) and
Thursday
S&N Miguel Hernández
(298-310) and
Catarina de Monte
Sinay 257-273
Colonial Caste, Class, O&G ch. 10, 13-16 (89Week 9 wiki/disc
and Family
96 and 118-150)
Thursday
Colonial Daily Life
O&G ch 17-19 (151Paper #2 assignment
173)S&N Beatriz de
handed out
Padilla (247-256) and
Week 10 wiki/disc
Enrico Martínez (331Thursday
346)
UNIT 3: Reform and
Rebellion
4/2 and 4/4
4/9 and 4/11
4/16 and 4/18
4/23 and 4/25
4/30 and 5/2
5/9
How did Enlightenment
ideas affect late
colonial Latin America?
What factors led to
independence?
Imperial expansion and
reform
O&G ch 20-21(175Week 11 wiki/disc
192)
Thursday
S&N Cristóbal Bequer
189-209, Francisco
Baquero (86-101)
The Mission
Saeger, “The Mission Paper #2 due Tuesday
and Historical Missions”
Week 12 wiki/disc
on Blackboard
Thursday
S&N Damiana da
Cunha 102-121
Colonial Rebellions
O&G ch 24 (207-226)
Week 13 wiki/disc
Thursday
Independence in
O&G ch 26 (227-232)
Week 14 wiki/disc
Mexico
Thursday
Independence in South O&G ch 27-29 (233Week 15 wiki/disc
America
257)
Thursday
FINAL EXAM 10:30am12:30pm