Lecture Schedule; Class Preparation and Reading

How to prepare for class:

Teaching consists of a weekly lecture and a seminar on a related topic. You are expected to undertake the weekly readings and exercises for your seminar; attend the lectures before the seminars; and attend your seminar weekly. Seminar attendance is recorded through Tabula. Report any absence to your tutor via email.
You should supplement these activities by following the “story” week on week via ONE of the below textbooks. Lectures and seminars will not make much sense if you don’t have this basic framework. Many are available to buy cheaply, or there are digital copies of some and many physical copies of others in the library:

Course books about the Colonial Period:

- Mark Burkholder and Lyman Johnson, Colonial Latin America, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2010.
- Kris Lane and Matthew Restall. Latin America in Colonial Times. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. [E-book at Library]

Course books from Independence:

- Matthew Brown From Frontiers to Football : An Alternative History of Latin America Since 1800, Reaktion Books, Limited, 2014.
- Andrew Dawson, Latin America since Independence: A History with Primary Sources [Electronic Resource], 2011.
- Will Fowler, Latin America since 1780 (any edition)

Course book for the whole period from c1492:

John Chasteen, Born in Blood and Fire: A Concise History of Latin America (any edition). Physical copies in the library

Not a course textbook but a very useful reference for recent summaries of historiography on a particular topic (particularly for essays/ presentations), e-copy via Library:

- Jose Moya (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Latin American History, 2012.

Bibliography for presentations and essays:

For essays and presentations, you'll need to read and research BEYOND the weekly seminar readings. Use the course bibliography and primary and digital sources suggested below.

See this useful video about archival resources for the study of Latin America available in the University of Warwick Library

Here is a link to Latin American databases available in the library.

See this useful PowerPoint by subject librarian Andrew Calvert on Using the Library for Sources on Latin America

Useful websites for primary sources:

Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials

Latin American Network Information Centre (LANIC)

Websites about the Colonial Period (with timelines):

Vistas: Visual Culture in Spanish America 1520-1820. Fordham.

Early Americas Digital Archive, University of Maryland

Useful Primary sources in the Modern Records Centre:

The Modern Records Centre has an excellent guide to Sources for the Study of Latin America available in their collection. Here are the slides from the intro session in the Modern Records centre.

The Modern Records Centre has also produced the excellent Warwick Digital Archive of the Chile Solidarity Campaign.

The Modern Records Centre also has an excellent resource tailored to a Final-Year module.The Human Rights in Latin America resource is especially useful for the study of social rights and labour in the early to mid-twentieth century since those documents could be digitised as they are out of copyright.

We will visit the Modern Records Centre (MRC) during one of the seminars. Here are some slides with general information about the MRC. We will use the Document Review Form on the visit to the archives.

The topic of the weekly seminars follows the lecture schedule, below. Click on each week for the relevant readings and any other seminar tasks.