21A.441
The Conquest of America
Spring 2004
Topics
- The Spanish Conquest
- Class Presentations on the Colombian Exchange
- Missionizing the Americas
- Resistance and Rebellion in Colonial Latin America
- Film: Black Robe
- Colonization of North America, Fur Trade, New France
- Discuss Jesuit Relations
- Discuss Film: Black Robe
- Film: Wilderness
- Discuss New England Environment and Economy
- Independence, Frontiers and Extraction in 19th Century Latin America
- Films: Spirit of Kuna Yala , Just us Kuna
- Discuss Kuna Materials
- Indian Activism and Organizing
- Discuss Kayapo
- Brazilian Films, Discuss Kayapo
- Indians: Images and Ideology
- Films, Wrap-up
Readings
- Cronon, William. Changes in the Land. Hill and Wang Publishers, 2003.
- Taylor, Alan. American Colonies. USA: Penguin, 2002.
- Wallace, Anthony. The Long, Bitter Trail. Hill and Wang Publishers, 1993.
- Carmack, Robert, Janine Gasco, and Gary Gossen. “Mesoamerica and Spain: ‘The Colonial Period in Mesoamerica.’” The Legacy of Mesoamerica. Prentice Hall, 1995.; and
- de las Casas, Bartolomé. Short Account Of The Destruction of the Indies. Translated by Nigel Griffin. USA: Penguin, 1999.
- SES #: 4 · TOPICS: Native Commentaries Colonial Exploitation and Rule · READINGS: Wolf, Eric. “Iberians in America.” Europe and the People without History . University of California Press, 1997. Reprint.
- Sweet, David. “The Ibero-American Frontier Mission in Native American History.” The New Latin American Mission History. Edited by Erick Langer, and Robert H. Jackson. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1995, pp. 1-46.
- Richter, Daniel. Ordeal of the Longhouse. Omohundro Institute of Early American History, 1993, pp. 57-74.
- Wallace, Anthony F.C. “The Cult of Death.” Death and Rebirth of the Seneca. Vintage Books, 1972, pp. 93-107.
- Wogan, Peter. “Perceptions of European Literacy in Early Contact Situations.” Ethnohistory 41 (1994): 408-29.
- Churchill, Ward. “And they did it like dogs in the dirt…:an indigenist analysis of Black Robe.” From a Native Son. South End Press, 1997, pp. 432-437.
- Bowden, Henry Warner. “Northeast Indians, English Missions.” American Indians and Christian Missions. University of Chicago Press. Reprint 1985.
- Wallace, Anthony F. C. “The Cult of Death.” Death and Rebirth of the Seneca. Vintage Books, 1972. (All)
- Turner, Terence. “The Role of Indigenous Peoples in the Environmental Crisis: The Example of the Kayapo of the Brazilian Amazon.” Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 36, 3 (1993): 526-545.
- ———. “An Indigenous People’s Struggle…” Journal of Latin American Anthropology 1, 1 (1995).
- ———. “Defiant images: The Kayapo Appropriation of Video.” Anthropology Today 8, 6 (Dec 1992).
- Excerpts from An Oral History by High Chief Carlos López.
- Carmack, Gasco, and Gossen. The Legacy of Mesoamerica . Prentice Hall, 1996.
- Gruzinski, Serge. The Mestizo Mind . Routledge, 2002.
- Burkholder, Mark, and Lyman Johnson. Colonial Latin America . Oxford, 1990.
- Kicza, John, ed. The Indian in Latin American History . S.R.I., 2000. Revised edition.
- Richter, Daniel. Facing East from Indian Country. Harvard, 2001.
- Calloway, Colin. First Peoples . St. Martin’s, 1999.
- Handbook of North American Indians . Smithsonian Institution, 17 volumes, 1978-2001.
- The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas . Cambridge.
- Vol. 1, North America , 1996.
- Vol. 2, Mesoamerica , 2000.
- Vol. 3, South America , 1999.
- The Cambridge History of Latin America. Cambridge. 11 volumes, 1985-1995.
- Restall, Matthew. Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest. Oxford, 2003.
- Kamen, Henry. Empire: How Spain Became a World Power, 1492-1763. Harper, 2003.
- Hemmings, John. The Conquest of the Incas. Harcourt and Brace, 1973.
- Prescott, William. History of the Conquest of Peru & History of the Conquest of Mexico . [1843/1847]. Cooper Square Press, 2000.
- Gruzinski, Serge. The Conquest of Mexico . Blackwell, 1993.
- Restal, Matthew. Maya Conquistador . Beacon, 1998.
- de las Casas, Bartolomé. The Devastation of the Indies . [1552]. Johns Hopkins, 1974.
- Hanke, Lewis. All Mankind is One. Northern Illinois, 1994.
- Stern, Steve. Peru’s Indian peoples and the Challenge of Spanish Conquest . Wisconsin, 1982.
- Lockhart, James. The Nahuas after the Conquest. Stanford, 1992.
- Katz, Friedrich, ed. Riot, Rebellion, and Revolution. Princeton, 1988.
- Stern, Steve, ed. Resistance, Rebellion, and Consciousness in the Andean Peasant World . Wisconsin, 1987.
- Restall, Matthew. The Maya World . Stanford, 1997.
- Lovell, George. Conquest and Survival in Colonial Guatemala . McGill-Queen’s, 1992.
- Schroeder, Susan, ed. Native Resistance and the Pax Colonial in New Spain . Nebraska, 1998.
- Griffith, Nicholas, and Fernando Cervantes, eds. Spiritual Encounters . Nebraska, 1999.
- Gutiérrez, Ramón. When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away . Stanford, 1991.
- Burkhart, Louise. The Slippery Earth . Arizona, 1989.
- Clendinnen, Inga. Ambivalent Conquests . Cambridge, 1987.
- Langer, Erick, and Robert Jackson, eds. The New Latin American Mission History . Nebraska, 1995.
- Axtell, James. The Invasion Within . Oxford, 1985.
- Greer, Allan, ed. The Jesuit Relations . St. Martin’s, 2000.
- Anderson, Karen. Chain Her by One Foot . Routledge, 1991.
- Parkman, Francis. The Jesuits in North America . [1867]. Nebraska, 1997.
- Blackburn, Carol. Harvest of Souls . McGill-Queen’s, 2000.
- Trigger, Bruce. The Children of Aataentsic . McGill-Queen’s, 1987.
- Crosby, Alfred. Ecological Imperialism . Cambridge, 1986.
- Silver, Timothy. A New Face on the Countryside . Cambridge, 1990.
- Merchant, Carolyn. Ecological Revolutions . North Carolina, 1989.
- Muir, Diana. Reflections in Bullough’s Pond . University Press of New England, 2002.
- Melville, Elinor. A Plague of Sheep . Cambridge, 1994.
- Krech, Shephard. The Ecological Indian . Norton, 1999.
- Anderson, Fred. Crucible of War . Knopf, 2000.
- Lepore, Jill. The Name of War . Knopf, 1998.
- Malone, Patrick. The Skulking Way of War . Johns Hopkins, 1991.
- Chet, Guy. Conquering the American Wilderness . Massachusetts, 2003.
- Gallay, Alan. The Indian Slave Trade . Yale, 2002.
- Brooks, James. Captives and Cousins. North Carolina, 2002.
- Colley, Linda. Captives. Pantheon, 2002.
- Demos, John. The Unredeemed Captive . Knopf, 1994.
- Faery, Rebecca. Cartographies of Desire. Oklahoma, 1999.
- Namais, June. White Captives . North Carolina, 1993.
- ———, ed. A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison . Oklahoma, 1992.
- Rowlandson, Mary. The Sovereignty and Goodness of God . [1682]. Bedford, 1997.
- Wallace, Anthony. The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca . Random House, 1969.
- Richter, Daniel. The Ordeal of the Longhouse . North Carolina, 1992.
- Fenton, William. The Great Law and the Longhouse . Oklahoma, 1998.
- Merrell, James. Into the American Woods . Norton, 1999.
- White, Richard. The Middle Ground . Cambridge, 1991.
- Calloway, Colin. The American Revolution in Indian Country . Cambridge, 1996.
- McLoughlin, William. Cherokee Renascence in the New Republic . Princeton, 1986.
- Wallace, Anthony. Jefferson and the Indians. Harvard, 1999.
- Perdue, Theda, and Michael Green, eds. The Cherokee Removal . St. Martin’s, 1995.
- Gallup-Diaz, Ignacio. The ‘Door of the Seas and the Key to the Universe’: Indian Politics and Imperial Rivalry in the Darién , 1640–1750 . Princeton University, 1999. Gutenberg project, electronic book.
- Howe, James. A People Who Would Not Kneel . Smithsonian, 1998.
- Lee Van Cott, Donna, ed. Indian Peoples and Democracy in Latin America . St. Martin’s, 1994.
- Langer, Erick, and Elena Muñoz. Contemporary Indigenous Movements in Latin America . S. R. I., 2003.
- Warren, Kay, and Jean Jackson, eds. Indigenous Movements, Self-Representation, and the State in Latin America . Texas, 2003.
- Maybury-Lewis, David, ed. The Politics of Ethnicity . Harvard, 2002.
- Warren, Kay. Indigenous Movements and Their Critics . Princeton, 1998.
- Ramos, Alcida. Indigenism . Wisconsin, 1998.
- Seth, Garfield. Indigenous Struggle at the Heart of Brazil. Duke, 2001.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗Historical OpenCourseWare
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- MIT OCW syllabus ↗
- MIT OCW readings ↗
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