HIS 1025 Indigenous & Colonial Latin America
This course surveys Latin America history from its main indigenous cultures to its modern nations established at the beginning of the 1800s. It studies the main differences among the ancient Indian cultures, and it addresses issues as slavery, colonialism, the role of the Catholic Church, the colonial societies, punishment and cooptation, and the struggles for Independence. It aims to discuss the bases of both the specificity and the internal diversity of Latin America.