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Latin America from conquest to independence

Vak
2009-2010

NB. This course is NOT available as an optional course / keuzevak! Subject to a limited amount of space, students are only allowed to enroll if they are:

  • part of the BA-history programme of Leiden University

  • International students (via the International Office!)

This course traces Latin American history from the fall of the Aztec and Inca Empires to the rise of independence leaders such as Simon Bolivar and Miguel Hidalgo. We will examine the contested regimes that emerged after conquest, the relentless quest for mineral wealth, the rise of slavery and plantation agriculture, and the growing power of the Jesuit Order, the Inquisition, and other arms of the Catholic Church. The course ends with the transition from 18th-century rebellions against crown authority to full-blown independence movements.

Onderwijsvorm

Seminar. (NB class attendance is mandatory, see studiereglement Instituut voor Geschiedenis, art 2)

A la carte- en Contractonderwijs

Niet beschikbaar voor A la carte- of Contractonderwijs.

Leerdoelen

To provide students with a basic chronology of key events, a sense of fundamental social trends, and the overall economic importance of Latin America in the larger early modern world.

Literatuur

Mark Burkholder & Lyman Johnson, Colonial Latin America (paperback Oxford University Press, 2007; ISBN: 9780195320428).

Toetsing

Short essays.

Rooster

Semester II, see rooster.

Informatie

With the tutor.

Aanmelden

Via U-TWIST, zie aanmeldingsprocedures.