Week 1: Consequences of Conquest and Colonialism
Consequences of Conquest and Colonialism
How did sixteenth century Europeans make sense of the New World and the people of the America? What was the nature of the philosophical debate regarding the relationship between the people of the Old and New Worlds? How was this reflected in legislation? How did ordinary people relate to the state in colonial Latin America (from the sixteenth to the eighteenth-centuries? How did they use the law to resist and/ or negotiate to protect their interests?
Primary Sources:
Guaman, Poma de Ayala, Felipe. First New Chronicle and Good Government: On the History of the World and the Incas up To 1615, edited by Roland Hamilton, University of Texas Press, 2009.
. World Digital Library, Library of Congress
Matthew Restal, Lisa Sousa and Kevin Terraciano (eds.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 2005. (Esp. Household and Land Section).
Core Readings:
Read EITHER the Tamar Herzog OR the Ward Stavig article:
Tamar Herzog 鈥溾�� The Americas 63(3) (2013): 303-321.
Ward Stavig. 鈥溾�� Hispanic American Historical Review (2000) 80 (1): 77-112.
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(Introduction)
Background Reading:
Oxford Handbook (Chapters 1-4, take your pick).
Chasteen (Relevant chapters)
Williamson (Relevant chapters)
Further Reading:
Sherwin K. Bryant, Rachel Sarah O'Toole, and Ben Vinson, eds. Baltimore: University of Illinois Press, 2012. (Especially Part II and Chapter by O'Toole)
Karoline P. Cook. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016).
Nancy Farriss. Maya Society Under Colonial Rule: the collective enterprise of Survival, Princeton N.J: Princeton, 1984.
Lewis Hanke. The Spanish struggle for justice in the conquest of America, 1949.
Brooke Larson. Cochabamba, 1550-1900: Colonialism and Agrarian Transformation In Bolivia. Durham: Duke University Press, 1998.
Sonya Lipsett-Rivera, To Defend our Water with the Blood of our Veins: The Struggle for Resources in Colonial Puebla. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1999.
Edmundo O'Gorman. The Invention of America. 1961.
Brian Owensby, "Between justice and economics : "Indians" and reformism in eighteenth-century Spanish imperial thought." in Lauren Benton and Richard J. Ross (eds.) Legal Pluralism and Empires, 1500-1850. New York: New York University Press, 2013.
Anthony Pagden. Spanish Imperialism and the Political Imagination: Studies in European and Spanish-American Social and Political Theory 1513-1830. New Haven/ London: Yale, 1990.
Gabriela Ramos, ' The Americas, Volume 73, Issue 01, January 2016, pp 39-57. Special Issue, Canon Law and Its Practice in Colonial Latin America.
Patricia Seed 'Are These Not Also Men?': The Indians' Humanity and Capacity for Spanish Civilisation鈥�, Journal of Latin American Studies 25:3 (1993), 629-652.
Patricia Seed. American Pentimiento: The invention of the Indian and the Pursuit of Riches. Minneapolis/ London: University of Minnesota Press, 2001.
Tatiana Seijas. (Cambridge Latin American Studies). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Karen Spalding, Huarochiri: a Colonial Province Under Inca and Spanish Rule. Stanford: Stanford Univ. Press, 1984.
Sweet, James H. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. (Especially Part 2; African Religious Responses).
William B. Taylor and Franklin Pease G.Y Violence and Resistance in the Americas: Native Americans and the Legacy of Conquest, co-edited Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994.
William B. Taylor Magistrates of the Sacred: Priests and Parishioners in Eighteenth-Century Mexico. Stanford University Press, 1997.
(A useful review article).
Charles Walker. The Tupac Amaru Rebellion. Harvard University Press, 2014.
Silvio Arturo Zavala. The Defense of Human Rights in Latin America Sixteenth to Eighteenth Century. Paris: Unesco, 1964.
Playlist:
The Early Music Show: Latin America's turbulent colonial history told through Music. BBC Radio 3, 18 October 2020.