Ethnicity and Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century Latin America (HI928 - Withdrawn)
This module has now been permanently withdrawn and is no longer taught in the Warwick History Department.
Context of Module
Module Aims
Intended Learning Outcomes
Outline Syllabus
Illustrative Bibliography
Assessment
Context of Module
This module may be taken by students on the MA in History, the MA in Modern History, the MA in the History of Race in the Americas, or taught Master's students outside the History Department.
Module Aims
The module provides an opportunity to explore the relationship between native Americans and the emerging system of republican national states during the Nineteenth Century. The course will enable students to observe how native Americans related to states shaped along principles of economic individualism and egalitarian citizenship. Focussing on such issues such as elections, taxation, common land privatisation, military service and inter-ethnic warfare, the course will enable students to focus upon particular ethnic groups (Nahua, Maya and Quechua-Aymara) within various regional contexts (Mexico, Guatemala and Peru-Bolivia). The primary analytical focus will be on native leadership and how leaders responded to the transition from colonial to republican rule.
Intended Learning Outcomes
- to gain a familiarity with the recent historiography on the subject.
- to gain experience in seminar discussion, including the formal presentation of ideas and interpretations in a seminar context.
- to work independently on a 5,000 essay on a subject chosen and framed in the light of the advanced literature in this area; to construct bibliographies from books and articles; to gather evidence and use it to shape a cogent and coherent analytical discussion; and, where appropriate, to deploy evidence from primary sources.
Outline Syllabus
Seminar 1: Indians under colonial rule
Seminar 2: Indians and the Constitution of Cadiz
Seminar 3: The Indian republic under republican government, 1820-1864.
Seminar 4: The Caste Wars of Yucatan and Chiapas.
Seminar 5: Indians and patriotism in Mexico and Peru.
Seminar 6: Land privatisation, the Indian community and the onset of rural capitalism.
Seminar 7: Liberal Revolution and Indian rebellion, 1900-1930.
Seminar 8: Nationalism, Indigenismo and the Indian.
Illustrative Bibliography
Arij Ouweneel and Simon Miller, eds., The Indian Community of Colonial Mexico Fifteen Essays on Land Tenure, Corporate Organisations, Ideology and Village Politics
William Taylor, Drinking, Homicide and Rebellion in Colonial Mexican Villages
Peter Guardino, Peasants, Politics, and the Formation of Mexico's National State Guerrero, 1800-1857
Terry Rugeley, Yucatan's Peasantry and the Origins of the Caste War
Robert H Jackson, ed, Liberals, the Church and Indian Peasants. Corporate Lands and the Challenge of Reform in Nineteenth-Century Spanish America
Florencia Mallon, Peasant and Nation The Making of Post-Colonial Mexico and Peru
Guy Thomson (with David LaFrance), Political Patriotism and Popular Liberalism in Mexico Francisco Lucas and the Puebla Sierra
Greg Grandin, The Blood of Guatemala A History of Race and Nation
Murdo MacLeod and Robert Wasserstrom, (eds.) Spaniards and Indians in Southeastern Mesoamerica
Steve Stern, ed., Resistance, Rebellion and Consciousness in the Andean Peasant World
Charles Walker, Smoldering Ashes Cuzco and the Creation of Republican Peru 1780-1840
Mark Thurner, From Two Republics to One Divided
Marisol de la Cadena, Indigenous Mestizos The Politics of Race and Culture in Cuzco, Peru, 1919-1991
Assessment
1 assessed essay of 5,000 words: the course is taught in weekly 2-hour seminars.
Information | |
Tutor/s | Dr. Guy Thomson |
Term | Spring |
Tutorial Day | Wednesdays |
Time | 10.00am - 12 noon |
Lecturer Rooms | |
Guy Thomson | H338 |