Documenting Latin America, Volume 1 / Edition 1

by Erin E. O'Connor

Overview

Documenting Latin America focuses on the central themes of race, gender, and politics.

These themes are especially important for understanding and evaluating the history of Latin America, where identities were forged out of the conflicts, negotiations, and intermixing of peoples from Europe, Africa, and the Americas. Documentary sources provide readers with the tools to develop a broad understanding of the course of Latin American social, cultural, and political history. Drawing upon labor, biographical, economic, and military histories, the book offers a unique blend of perspectives of history from both above and below, from under-studied as well as often-studied regions, and from a combination of archival and classic sources that will allow readers to engage in a meaningful way with the Latin American past.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	2900132085082
Publisher:	Pearson
Publication date:	08/10/2010
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	312
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

About the Author

Erin E. O’Connor is an associate professor of history at Bridgewater State College in Massachusetts. She has over a decade of teaching experience in both private and public institutions of higher education, where she has taught a wide variety of courses on Latin American and world history. O’Connor’s research has focused on gender, ethnicity, and nation-state formation in nineteenth-century Latin America, which she explored in her first monograph, Gender, Indian, Nation: The Contradictions of Making Ecuador, 1830-1925 (Arizona, 2007). Her current research scrutinizes the multiple public implications of domesticity in Spanish America, investigating how both elite and poor individuals and families engaged with changing gender laws.

Leo J. Garofalo is an associate professor of history at Connecticut College. Since 2000, he has taught majors and non-majors in the US and South America about colonial Latin America, the African Diaspora, modern politics and revolution, and immigration and migration issues. Garofalo's research explores the making of race in colonial Andean societies and the movement of people of African descent in the early Iberian worlds embracing three continents. His most recent book explores the impact of the Diaspora on the Americas and is co-authored with Kathryn Joy McKnight, Afro-Latino Voices: Narratives from the Early Modern Ibero-American Atlantic World, 1550-1812 (Hackett, 2009). Currently he is researching the experiences of black sailors, soldiers, and popular saints and how they carved out a place of belonging and respect for themselves within the Spanish and Portuguese empires.

Table of Contents

Thematic Index

Preface

Introduction: “Doing” Latin American History in the Age of Nation States

Maps

Section I: Imperial Aspirations and the Limits of Colonial Domination

Introduction to Section

1) Christopher Columbus Evaluates Indigenous Societies, Leo J. Garofalo, Connecticut College

2) Politics, Gender, and the Conquest of Mexico, Leo J. Garofalo, Connecticut College

3) Afro-Iberian Sailors, Soldiers, Traders, and Thieves on the Spanish Main, Leo J. Garofalo, Connecticut College

4) A Case of Contested Identity: Domingo Pérez, Indigenous Immigrant in Ciudad Real, Chiapas, Laura Matthew, Marquette University

5) Runaways Establish Maroon Communities in the Hinterland of Brazil, Leo J. Garofalo, Connecticut College

Section II: Church, Society, and Colonial Rule

Introduction to Section

6) European Priests Discuss Ruling Indigenous and African Peoples, Leo J. Garofalo, Connecticut College

7) Fray Alonso de Espinosa’s Report on Pacifying the Fugitive Slaves of the Pacific Coast, Charles Beatty-Medina, University of Toledo

8) Blending New and Old Beliefs in Mexico and the Andes, Leo J. Garofalo, Connecticut College

9) Patrimony and Patriarchy in a Colonial Mexican Confraternity, Annette McLeod, Skidmore College

10) Spiritual Directions: Gender, Piety, and Friendship in Late Colonial Mexico, Karen Melvin, Bates College

Section III: Finding a Place within Colonial Hierarchies

Introduction to Section

11) African Women’s Possessions: Inquisition Inventories in Cartagena de Indias, Von Germeten, Oregon State University

12) The Pious and Honorable Life of Ana Juana of Cochabamba (1675), Rachel Sarah O’Toole, University of California, Irvine

13) Obeying the Heart and Obeying the Church, Patricia Seed, University of California-Irvine

14) Black Hierarchies and Power in Colonial Recife, Brazil, Elizabeth Kiddy, Albright College

Section IV: Challenging Colonial and Cultural Norms

Introduction to Section

15) A Romance of Early-Modern Mexico City: Self Interest and Everyday Life in Colonial New Spain, Brian Owensby, University of Virginia

16) Ambitious Women in a “Man’s World”, Leo J. Garofalo, Connecticut College

17) Costume and Custom: The Social Significance of Female Dress in Colonial Potosí, Jane Mangan, Davidson College

18) To Change the Fate of All Women: Charges of Witchcraft Against Juana de Mayo, Leo J. Garofalo, Connecticut College

19) On Her Deathbed: Beyond the Stereotype of the Powerless Indigenous Woman, Miriam Melton-Villanueva, University of California, Los Angeles

Section V: The Age of Reform

Introduction to Section

20) Official Paintings Seek to Classify People in a Complex Society, Leo J. Garofalo, Connecticut College

21) Creole Town Councils Fear Change from Above and Below, Leo J. Garofalo, Connecticut College

22) The Politics of Petty Commerce: Who Defines the Public Good? R. Douglas Cope, Brown University

23) Indians Do Everything (an Otomí poem), John Tutino, Georgetown University

24) High Clergy Warns the Crown of Popular Discontent, Leo J. Garofalo, Connecticut College

Section VI: The Age of Transformation and Revolt, 1780-1825

Introduction to Section

25) Indian Leaders Tupac Amaru and Micaela Bastidas Fight to End Spanish Rule, Leo J. Garofalo, Connecticut College

26) Father José María Morelos and Visions of Mexican Independence, Erin E. O’Connor, Bridgewater State College

27) The Many Views of Simón Bolívar, Erin E. O’Connor, Bridgewater State College

28) Forging a Guerrilla Republic, Javier Marión, Emmanuel College, Boston

29) Slavery, Race, and Citizenship in the Empire of Brazil: Debates in the Constituent Assembly of 1823, Kirsten Schultz, Seton Hall University

30) Empire, Loyalty, and Race: Militiamen of Color in Nineteenth-Century Cuba, Michele Reid Vazquez, Georgia State University

Glossary

 

Editorial Reviews

These volumes are going to revolutionize the teaching of Latin American history. The sources are marvelous because they provide entire translated documents that permit students to delve deeply into many subjects...[and] to discover on their own the fascinating lives of common people and elites. In addition, the text contextualizes well each period and document, making it possible to teach a course based just on these volumes.

Erick D. Langer, Georgetown University

Documenting Latin America is an exceptional collection in that it strikes the crucial balance between breadth and depth of coverage. Students and instructors alike will be impressed with the variety of interesting and well-chosen documentary selections, each of them with an introduction that is conceptually sophisticated yet accessible.

Kevin Gannon, Grand View College

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