Question for Consideration: (Please note that this Theme’s Question draws from lectures and readings for Theme Two and Theme Three. You must incorporate lectures and readings from both weeks into your answer. Due by 10:45 am 9/21 via TurnItIn.com) If it is historically accurate to characterize Spanish and Portuguese colonialism as a brutal system in which native Americans and peoples of African descent were oppressed, why didn’t they successfully dismantle colonialism for over three hundred years? Theme Four: “¡Americanos!” Independence M 9/21; W 9/23; F 9/25 Lecture Outline: Colonial Crisis (1808-14) What’s Napoleon got to do with Latin American History? First Wave Movements: Argentina and Mexico II. Colonial Collapse ( 1820s) South America: “Plowing the Sea,” 1810-1825 Mexico: From “Indian” Uprisings to Native Empires: 1810-1825 Brazil: The “Bloodless Revolution” and the “Brazilian Party” Reading Section (Fri. 9/25) General discussion of reading assignments, Question for Consideration, and potential quiz so bring a #2 pencil. Key Terms Nativism Napoleonic Invasion Creole Brazilian Party Simón Bolívar Republicanism Readings: Chasteen, Chapter 3, “Independence,” and “Countercurrents,” pp. 91-116. José María Morelos, “Sentiments of the Nation” (1816) [primary document.] From Mills & Taylor: Colonial Latin America, pp. p. 341-344. In Readings as “Morelos, Sentiments.” Simón Bolívar, “The Jamaica Letter,” (1815) [primary document]. From E. Bradford Burns and Julie A. Charlip, eds, Latin America: A Concise Interpretative History (7th ed.): pp. 79-83. In Readings as “Bolívar, Jamaica.” Question for Consideration: (Due by 10:45 am 9/28 via BLACKBOARD)
Question for Consideration: (Please note that this Theme’s Question draws from lectures and readings for Theme Two and Theme Three. You must incorporate lectures and readings from both weeks into your answer. Due by 10:45 am 9/21 via TurnItIn.com) If it is historically accurate to characterize Spanish and Portuguese colonialism as a brutal system in which native Americans and peoples of African descent were oppressed, why didn’t they successfully dismantle colonialism for over three hundred years? Theme Four: “¡Americanos!” Independence M 9/21; W 9/23; F 9/25 Lecture Outline: Colonial Crisis (1808-14) What’s Napoleon got to do with Latin American History? First Wave Movements: Argentina and Mexico II. Colonial Collapse ( 1820s) South America: “Plowing the Sea,” 1810-1825 Mexico: From “Indian” Uprisings to Native Empires: 1810-1825 Brazil: The “Bloodless Revolution” and the “Brazilian Party” Reading Section (Fri. 9/25) General discussion of reading assignments, Question for Consideration, and potential quiz so bring a #2 pencil. Key Terms Nativism Napoleonic Invasion Creole Brazilian Party Simón Bolívar Republicanism Readings: Chasteen, Chapter 3, “Independence,” and “Countercurrents,” pp. 91-116. José María Morelos, “Sentiments of the Nation” (1816) [primary document.] From Mills & Taylor: Colonial Latin America, pp. p. 341-344. In Readings as “Morelos, Sentiments.” Simón Bolívar, “The Jamaica Letter,” (1815) [primary document]. From E. Bradford Burns and Julie A. Charlip, eds, Latin America: A Concise Interpretative History (7th ed.): pp. 79-83. In Readings as “Bolívar, Jamaica.” Question for Consideration: (Due by 10:45 am 9/28 via BLACKBOARD)