Required Books

Andrien, Kenneth.  The Human Tradition in Colonial Latin America.  Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 2002.  ISBN:  0842028889

Martin, Cheryl E. and Mark Wasserman.  Latin America and Its People volume 1.  3rd edition.  New York: Longman Press, 2011.  ISBN: 9781442212992

Cheryl E. Martin & Mark Wasserman.   Readings on Latin America & Its People Volume 1.  New York: Longman Press, 2010.  ISBN: 9780321355829

Stuart B. Schwartz.  Victors and Vanquished: Spanish and Nahua Views of the Conquest of Mexico.  Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2000.  ISBN: 978-0312393557

Laurent Dubois and John D. Garrigus, eds.   Slave Revolution in the Caribbean, 1789-1804.   Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2006.  ISBN: 978-0-312-41501-3

Accessing Course Materials:

There are several ways to access the required texts for this course:

1. The required books are available for purchase at the College of Wooster bookstore or online.
2. A copy of each required book is available on reserve at the Gault Library.
3. Some course materials, including short videos, audio slideshows, and digitized primary sources will be viewed by clicking the highlighted link in the syllabus.
4. Articles and short book excerpts marked “arp” or “additional readings page” are available on a password-protected page in this website.  Please print them out and bring them to class.  Please remember to print double sided wherever possible.

The complete schedule of class topics and readings is posted here.

Key to syllabus reading abbreviations: