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Week 5. Nation, Sovereignty and Civil and Political Rights 

 

Did the idea of rights and human rights begin to emerge in the late-eighteenth and early- nineteenth century? How did rights develop in post-independence Latin America and how were they negotiated? How were rights related to the nation state and ideas of sovereignty?

How did Latin American elites understand citizenship during the process of state building? What systems of representation were introduced in Latin America after independence? How did indigenous groups, Afro-Latin Americans, peasants, enslaved individuals and workers participate in politics? How were tensions between group and individual rights played out? How did people claim political rights? What civil and political rights were afforded in constitutions? Were civil and political rights the only rights at stake in the issues arising? 

 

Core Reading: 

Marcela Echeverri, "", 1809 – 1819. Hispanic American Historical Review 1 May 2011; 91 (2): 237–269. 

Hilda S谩bato. 鈥�鈥� The American Historical Review. 106:4 (2001), 1290–1315.

Phillip Kaisary, 鈥�"鈥�: Race, Nation, and Haiti鈥檚 Imperial Constitution of 1805鈥�, in Whitney Nell Stewart and John Garrison Marks (eds.), Race and Nation in the Age of Emancipations, Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 2018.

 

Further Reading: 

Jeremy Adelman. Sovereignty and Revolution in the Iberian Atlantic. Princeton University Press, 2016.

Catherine Andrews (2016) ', Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies, 22:3, 163-180.

 

Manuel Barcia. The Great African Slave Revolt of 1825: Cuba and the fight for freedom in Matanzas. Louisiana State University Press, 2012.

Manuel Barcia. West African Warfare in Bahia Cuba. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.

Manuel Barcia. Seeds of Insurrection: domination and resistance on Western Cuban Plantations 1808-1848. Louisiana State University Press, 2008.

Peter Blanchard. , University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008.

Simon Bolivar, , Trans Fred Fornoff, David Bushnell (ed.) Oxford University Press, 2003.

Matthew Brown and Gabriel Paquette (eds.) , University of Alabama Press, 2013.

Simon Collier. 鈥溾�� The Hispanic American Historical Review, vol. 63, no. 1, 1983, pp. 37–64.

Laurent Dubois. Avengers of the New World. Harvard: Belknap Press, 2004.

Marcela Echeverri.  Cambridge University Press, 2016. 

(Especially Chapter 4 on Race in New Granada and Chapter 8 on Slavery in the US and Brazil)

Tom Farer (ed.) Beyond Sovereignty: Collectively Defending Sovereignty in the Americas. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.

Gargarella, Roberto. "The First Latin American Constitutions (1810–1850)." Latin American Constitutionalism, 1810-2010: The Engine Room of the Constitution. Oxford University Press, 2013.

Peter Guardino. The Time of Liberty: Popular Political Culture in Oaxaca, 1750-1850. Duke, 2005.

Brian R. Hamnett, Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Lynn Hunt. Inventing Human Rights. W. W. Norton, 2008.

Mallon, Florencia. Decolonizing Native Histories. Durham/ London: Duke University Press, 2012.

Eduardo Posada Carb贸. Elections before democracy. the history of elections in Europe and Latin America. Basingstoke : Macmillan, 1996.

Eduardo Posada Carb贸. 

Anthony McFarlane. Routledge, 2013.

Mirow, M. C. Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Paquette, Gabriel. . Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Mattias Rohrig Assuncao. Elite Politics and Popular Rebellion in the Construction of Post Colonial Order. The Case of Maranao, Brazil (1820-41). JLAS, 31:1 (1999), 1-38.

Sabato, Hilda. Republics of the New World. The Revolutionary Political Experiment in Nineteenth-Century Latin America. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018.

Timo Schaefer. The Rise and Fall of Legal Rule in Post-Colonial Mexico 1820-1900. (Cambridge University Press, 2017)

Joshua Simon.  Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Whitney Nell Steward and John Garrison Marks (eds.) Race and Nation in the Age of Emancipations. University of Georgia Press, 2018.

Camilla Townsend, 鈥淗alf of my Body Free, the Other Half Enslaved: The Politics of the Slaves of Guayaquil at the End of the Colonial Era,鈥� Colonial Latin American Review, 7:1 (1998): 105-28.

John Tutino (ed.)  Durham NC; Duke University Press, 2016.

Victor Uribe Uran. 鈥淭he Birth of the Public Sphere in Latin America During the Age of Revolution.鈥� Comparative Studies in Society and History, 42:2, 2000. 

Richard Warren. Vagrants and Citizens: politics and the masses in Mexico City from Colony to Republic. Scholarly Resources, 2001.

 

Primary sources: 

Simon Bolivar, , Trans Fred Fornoff, David Bushnell (ed.) Oxford University Press, 2003.

Simon Bolivar,  

(and the and the )

  

Jose Mar铆a Morelos, .

, 19 March 1812.

Practical Assignment Preparation: 

Take your pick of what you might be interested in thinking about for the reflecting on public history exercise: 

1 Look at this example of an online gallery. How effective is it as a piece of public history?

 

2 Look at the community-engaged digital history project, How effective is it as a piece of public history?

3 Look at the digital history resources, , University of Nottingham 

and . How accessible are they and how easy to navigate?

Background Reading: 

(Chapter 1) 

Oxford Handbook, "Independence in Latin America"