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The Eighteenth Century

Bourbon Reforms Lecture powerpoint

Questions

  • What changes were made by the Spanish in their American colonies in the eighteenth century? Why?
  • How had colonial demographies, economies, and societies changed by the eighteenth century?
  • Why were there so many riots and rebellions in 18th century Latin America? Were they a sign that Spain and Portugal were losing control of their colonies?
  • What historical use can scholars make of riots and rebellions? How have they used E.P. Thompson's ideas about "moral economy" to interpret riots in colonial Spanish America?

Required Seminar Readings: at least one of:

CC seminar powerpoint

RD Seminar Powerpoint

Additional Readings

  • Echeverri, Marcela. Indian and Slave Royalists in the Age of Revolution: Reform, Revolution, and Royalism in the Northern Andes, 1780-1825 (Cambridge University Press, 2016) [e-book @ Library]
  • Kenneth Maxwell. Conflicts and Conspiracies: Brazil and Portugal, 1750-1808. Routledge, 2004. [e-book @ Library]
  • Mills, Kenneth and William Taylor, Colonial Spanish America: A Documentary History, SR Books (Wilmington, 1998), Part IV: Bourbon Reforms and American Practices in a Short Eighteenth Century.
  • Serulnikov, Sergio. Revolution in the Andes:The Age of Tupac Amaru, New York, USA: Duke University Press, 2013.
  • Stern, Steve, “The Age of Andean Insurrection, 1742-1782: A Reappraisal,” in Steve Stern ed., Resistance, Rebellion and Consciousness in the Andean Peasant World, University of Wisconsin Press (Madison, 1987), pp.29-93.
  • Viqueira Albán, Juan Pedro, Propriety and Permissiveness in Bourbon Mexico, trans. Sonya Lipsett-Rivera and Sergio Rivera Ayala, SR Books (Wilmington, 1999).
  • Walker, Charles F.. Smoldering Ashes : Cuzco and the Creation of Republican Peru, 1780-1840 Duke University Press, 1999. (Chapter 2)
  • Thompson, E.P., ‘The Moral Economy of an English Crowd in the Eighteenth Century’, Past & Present, no. 50 (1971).

Optional Primary Source for the Seminar

  • Areche, José Antonio de, “All Must Die,” 1781, in The Peru Reader: History, Culture, Politics, eds. Orin Starn, Carlos Iván Degregori and Robin Kirk, Duke University Press (Durham, 1995), pp. 157-161. (See also Flores Galindo, The Tupac Amaru Rebellion) (E-book at Library)