Colloquium in Latin American History
Spring 2013
HILA 4511 (1)
Colloquium in Latin American History
"Cohesion and Contestation in Latin American History "
Herbert Braun
This is a seminar on Latin American history and on its historiography, that is, how it is studied and written about by historians. We will read and analyze nine historical monographs for underlying themes and approaches, from the early colonial period to the virtual present. Students will write and present five interpretive essays of five pages each.
Texts
- Inga Clendinnen, Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1517-1570
- R. Douglas Cope, The Limits of Racial Domination: Plebeian Society in Colonial Mexico City, 1660-1720
- Sarah Chambers, From Subjects to Citizens: Honor, Gender, and Politics in Arequipa, Peru, 1780-1854
- James Sanders, Contentious Republicans: Popular Politics, Race, and Class in Nineteenth-Century Colombia
- Brooke Larson, Trials of Nation Making: Liberalism, Race,and Ethnicity in theh Andes, 1810-1910
- John Womack, Zapata and the Mexican Revolution
- Peter Winn, Weavers of Revolution: The Yarur Workers and Chile’s Road to Socialism
- Herbert Braun, The Assassination of Gaitán: Public Life and Urban Violence in Colombia
- Janice Perleman, Favela: Four Decades of Living on the Edge in Rio de Janeiro
