The course aims to introduce students to the history of Latin America, providing them with a brief, yet all-encompassing overview of the region’s past 600 years. We aim to potentially demystify ideas on its colonial past, underdevelopment, and contemporary contentious politics by discussing just how these themes are intimately connected and how we cannot understand contemporary Latin America without a clear grasp on its roots.
This novel is about the first great revolution of the twentieth century. Demetrio Macias, a poor, illiterate Indian, must join the rebels to save his family. Courageous and charismatic, he earns a generalship in Pancho Villa’s army, only to become discouraged with the cause after it becomes hopelessly factionalized. At once a spare, moving depiction of the limits of political idealism, an authentic representation of Mexico’s peasant life, and a timeless portrait of revolution, this is an iconic novel of the Latin American experience and a powerful novel about the disillusionment of war.
This book is a collection of documents intended to create a realistic portrait of black slavery in Brazil. It deals with the Atlantic slave trade in its several phases, depicts the lives of rural and urban slaves, exhibits the Catholic Church’s longstanding contradictory attitudes and policies toward slavery, hints at the multitude of compromises, offers first-hand information on the laws and legal concepts, reveals the brutal forms of corporal punishment, deals with both liberation and the peculiar problems inherent in having a dark skin in this land, reveals how courageous and desperate victims of slavery resisted over the centuries, and offers documents that expose the conflicting attitudes of the time.
This book explores the cultural development of colonial Latin America through a wide variety of documents and visual materials, most of which have been translated and presented originally for this collection. It provides more than a conventional treatment of the great themes associated with the study of the colonial period. These include exploration; military and spiritual conquest, the formation, consolidation, reform, and collapse of colonial institutions of government and Church, and the accompanying changes in the economy and labor, and the relations between and among the peoples of the region: Indians, Blacks, Mestizos, Whites born in the Americas, Spanish and Portuguese settlers and rulers.
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