Lecture

Questions

• How did Spain and Portugal structure their overseas empires? How were they similar/ different?
• What role did the Catholic church play in sustaining (or challenging) colonial authority?
• Why was labour, and disputes over labour, so important for colonisers and colonised?
• How did administrative and economic structures affect ordinary people's lives? Was there anything they could do to resist or change their circumstances?
• What links might we draw between political, economic, and social history of the Iberian colonies?

Required Seminar Reading: please read AT LEAST ONE of the following three sources (two if you're able). Remember also to follow the 'story' by reading relevant chapter(s) in the survey text you've chosen.

• “Government and Church in the Spanish Indies”, in ed. Benjamin Keen, Latin American Civilization: History and Society, 1492 to the Present, Westview Press (Boulder, 1996), 6th edition, pp. 103-112. (some useful primary sources and a nineteenth-century history of the period) see Library Scans Page
• Metcalf, Alida C., Family and Frontier in Colonial Brazil: Santana de Parnaíba, 1580-1822, “Introduction” (e-book available at Library)
• Lane, Kris “Africans and Natives in the Mines of Latin America,” in Matthew Restall (ed.), Beyond Black and Red: African-Native Relations in Colonial Latin America (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005)

CC seminar PPT

RD Seminar Handout

Seminar Activity

Choose an official from the Administrative Officials Section of Guaman Poma's First New Chronicle and Good Government. How might you use it as a source for understanding government in the Andes?

Guaman, Poma de Ayala, Felipe. The First New Chronicle and Good Government : On the History of the World and the Incas up To 1615, University of Texas Press, 2009. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/warw/detail.action?docID=3443464.

Additional Reading

• Bigelow, Allison Margaret, Mining Language: Racial Thinking, Indigenous Knowledge, and Colonial Metallurgy in the Early Modern Iberian World Chapel Hill, NC, 2021.
• Bryant, Sherwin. “Enslaved Rebels, Fugitives, and Litigants: The Resistance Continuum in Colonial Quito.” Colonial Latin American Review, 13:1 (2004): 7-46
• Dueñas, Alcira.Indians and Mestizos in the "Lettered City": Reshaping Justice, Social Hierarchy, and Political Culture in Colonial Peru University Press of Colorado, 2010.
• Jacobsen, Nils and Cristóbal Aljovín de Losada, “The Long and Short of It: A Pragmatic Perspective on Political Cultures, Especially for the Modern History of the Andes,” in Political Cultures in the Andes, 1750-1950, ed. Jacobsen and Aljovín, Durham, Duke, 2005.
• Owensby, Brian. Empire of Law and Indian Justice in Colonial Mexico (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008)
• Schwartz, Stuart B, Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society: Bahia, 1550-1835 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985)
• Spalding, Karen. Huarochirí: An Andean Society under Inca and Spanish Rule. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1984.

Primary Sources for additional reading:

• Guaman, Poma de Ayala, Felipe. The First New Chronicle and Good Government : On the History of the World and the Incas up To 1615, University of Texas Press, 2009. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/warw/detail.action?docID=3443464.
• Restall, Matthew, Lisa Sousa, and Kevin Terraciano, editors. Mesoamerican Voices: Native Language Writings from Colonial Mexico, Yucatan, and Guatemala Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
• “Government and Church in the Spanish Indies”, in ed. Benjamin Keen, Latin American Civilization: History and Society, 1492 to the Present, Westview Press (Boulder, 1996), 6th edition, pp. 103-112. (Library scans) (some useful primary sources and a nineteenth-century history of the period)
• Pizzigoni, Caterina and Townsend, Camilla. Indigenous Life After the Conquest: The De la Cruz Family Papers of Colonial Mexico, University Park, USA: Penn State University Press, 2021.(E-Book in the Library)