Week 4: Reform, Resistance and Rebellion in the Eighteenth-Century
Week 4: Reform, Resistance and Rebellion in the Eighteenth-Century
Seminar Questions:
How was citizenship imagined for different groups in colonial Latin America? How was this reflected in legislation? How did ordinary people relate to the state in colonial Latin America? How did they use the law to resist and/ or negotiate to protect their interests?
Core Readings:
Matt D. Childs, 鈥淩ecreating African Ethnic Identities in Cuba鈥� in Jorge Ca帽izares-Esguerra, Matt D. Childs and James Sidbury (eds.), The Black Urban Atlantic in the Age of the Slave Trade, edited by Jorge Ca帽izares-Esguerra, et al., University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013, 85-100.
Brian Owensby, "Between justice and economics: "Indians" and reformism in eighteenth-century Spanish imperial thought." in Lauren Benton and Richard J. Ross (eds.) Legal Pluralism and Empires, 1500-1850. New York: New York University Press, 2013.
Further Reading:
Jorge Ca帽izares-Esguerra, Matt D. Childs, and James Sidbury, eds. The Black Urban Atlantic in the Age of the Slave Trade. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013.
Mariza de Carvalho Soares. People of faith: slavery and African Catholics in eighteenth-century Rio de Janeiro. Translated by Jerry D. Metz. Duke University Press, 2011.
Earle, R. (2016) 鈥楾he Pleasures of Taxonomy: Casta Paintings, Classification and Colonialism鈥� in The Willian and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 73, pp. 427-466.
Fernandez, M. (2014) 鈥楥astas, Monstrous Bodies and Soft鈥� in Cosmopolitanism in Mexican Visual Culture. Austin: University of Texas, pp. 68-102.
Alberto Flores Galindo, In Search of an Inca: Identity and Utopia in the Andes, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Gonzalez Garcia, J. M. (2012) Latin America in the 18 Century: Between the 鈥淐asta Paintings鈥� Racism and the 鈥淲hitening鈥� of the Population, in ResearchGate. January, pp.152-171.
Katzew, I. and Deans-Smith, S. (eds) (2009) Race and Classification: The Case of Mexican America. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Brooke Larson. Cochabamba, 1550-1900: Colonialism and Agrarian Transformation in Bolivia. Durham: Duke University Press, 1998.
Martinez, E.M. (2008) Genealogical Fictions: Limpieza de Sangre, Religion, and Gender in Colonial Mexico. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Anthony Pagden. Spanish Imperialism and the Political Imagination: Studies in European and Spanish-American Social and Political Theory 1513-1830. New Haven/ London: Yale, 1990.
Ward Stavig. 鈥�鈥� Hispanic American Historical Review (2000) 80 (1): 77-112.
Ward Stavig. Hispanic American Historical Review, vol.68, (1988)
Steve J. Stern. Resistance, Rebellion and Consciousness in the Andean Peasant World 18th to 20th Centuries. University of Wisconsin Press, 1987. (Relevant Chapters.)
Steve J. Stern. The Secret History of Gender: Women, Men and Power in Late Colonial Mexico. University of North Carolina Press, 1995.
Sweet, James H. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003.
William B. Taylor Magistrates of the Sacred: Priests and Parishioners in Eighteenth-Century Mexico. Stanford University Press, 1997.
Charles Walker. The Tupac Amaru Rebellion. Harvard University Press, 2014.
Charles Walker. Shaky Colonialism: The 1746 Earthquake-Tsunami in Lima Peru and its Long Aftermath. Durham/ London: Duke University Press, 2008.
Charles Walker and Liz Clarke. Witness to the Age of Revolution
Weber, David J.. , Yale University Press, 2005.
Primary sources:
Matthew Restal, Lisa Sousa and Kevin Terraciano (eds.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 2005. (Esp. Household and Land Section).