History 201. Colonial Latin America
Required Books
Boyer and Spurling, Colonial Lives: Documents on Latin American History, 1550-1850 (Oxford, 1999).
Burkholder & Johnson, Colonial Latin America (Oxford, 1998). See Reading Assignments for this.
Bartolomé de las Casas, A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies (Penguin, 1999).
Catalina de Erauso, Lieutenant Nun: Memoir of a Basque Transvestite in the New World (Beacon, 1997).
Stuart Schwarz, Victors and Vanquished (Bedford/St. Martins, 2000
).
Patricia Seed, To Love, Honor, and Obey in Colonial Mexico (Stanford, 1988).

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