Required Reading

(alphabetical order by author: see syllabus for specific assignments)

Adelman, Jeremy, ed. Colonial Legacies: The Problem of Persistence in Latin American History. New York: Routledge, 1999.

Brading, David A. The First America: The Spanish Monarchy, Creole Patriots, and the Liberal State, 1492–1867. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

Caplan, Karen D. “The Legal Revolution in Town Politics: Oaxaca and Yucatán, 1812–1825.” Hispanic American Historical Review 83, no. 2 (May 2003): 255–93.

Chiaramonte, José Carlos. Ciudades, provincias, Estados: Orígenes de la Nación Argentina (1800–1846). Buenos Aires: Ariel, 1997. Documentos: 1, 2, 8, 15, 18, 28-32, 43, 56, 64-65, 66a-d.

Chiaramonte, José Carlos. “Fundamentos iusnaturalistas de los movimientos de independencia.” Boletín del Instituto de Historia Argentina “Dr. Emilio Ravignani” Tercera serie, no. 22 (2do semestre 2000): 33–71. AVAILABLE ON PRIVATE WEB SITE.

Delaney, Jean H. “Imagining El Ser Argentino: Cultural Nationalism and Romantic Concepts of Nationhood in Early Twentieth-Century Argentina.” Journal of Latin American Studies 34, part 3 (August 2002): 625–58.

Earle, Rebecca A. Spain and the Independence of Colombia, 1810–1825. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2000.

Earle, Rebecca. “‘Padres de la Patria’ and the Ancestral Past: Commenmorations of Independence in Nineteenth-Century Spanish America.” Journal of Latin American Studies 34, pt. 4 (2002): 771–803.

Ferrer, Ada. Insurgent Cuba: Race, Nation, and Revolution, 1868–1898. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999.

Fuente, Ariel de la. Children of Facundo: Caudillo and Gaucho Insurgency During the Argentine State-Formation Process (La Rioja, 1853–1870). Durham: Duke University Press, 2000.

Garavaglia, Juan Carlos. “La apoteósis del Leviathán: El estado en Buenos Aires en la primera mitad del siglo XIX.” Latin American Research Review 38, no.1 (February 2003): 135–68.

Gootenberg, Paul. Between Silver and Guano: Commercial Policy and the State in Postindependence Peru. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989.

Grandin, Greg. “A More Onerous Citizenship: Illness, Race, and Nation in Republican Guatemala.” In Reclaiming the Political in Latin American History: Essays from the North, edited by Gilbert M. Joseph, 205–30. Durham: Duke University Press, 2001.

Hamnett, Brian R. Roots of Insurgency : Mexican Regions, 1750–1824. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1986.

Hingson, Jesse. “Savages into Citizens: Families, Political Purge and Remission in Early Republican Córdoba, Argentina.” Unpublished dissertation. Miami: Florida International University, 2003.

Karush, Matthew B. Workers or Citizens: Democracy and Identity in Rosario, Argentina (1912–1930). Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2002.

Klubock, Thomas Miller. “Nationalism, Race, and the Politics of Imperialism: Workers and North American Capital in the Chilean Copper Industry.” In Reclaiming the Political in Latin American History: Essays from the North, edited by Gilbert M. Joseph, 231–67. Durham: Duke University Press, 2001.

Mónica Quijada, “Imaginando la homogeneidad: la alquimia de la tierra,” in Homogeneidad y nación con un estudio de caso: Argentina, siglos XIX y XX, ed. and comp. Mónica Quijada, Carmen Bernand, and Arnd Schneider (Madrid: CSIC, 2000).

Piccato, Pablo. City of Suspects: Crime in Mexico City, 1900–1931. Durham: Duke University Press, 2001.

Rock, David. State Building and Political Movements in Argentina, 1860–1916. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002.

Sábato, Hilda. The Many and the Few: Political Participation in Republican Buenos Aires. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001.

Szuchman, Mark D. Order, Family, and Community in Buenos Aires, 1810–1860. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988.

Thurner, Mark. From Two Republics to One Divided: Contradictions of Postcolonial Nationmaking in Andean Peru. Durham; London: Duke University Press, 1997.

Warren, Richard A. Vagrants and Citizens: Politics and the Masses in Mexico City from Colony to Republic. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 2001.

Recommended Reading

(works of a historiographical nature / sample state-of-lit reviews)

Bonnell, Victoria E. “The Uses of Theory, Concepts and Comparison in Historical Sociology.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 22, no. 2 (1980): 156-73.

Campbell, Leon G. “Recent Research on Andean Peasant Revolts, 1750-1820.” Latin American Research Review XIV, no. 1 (1979): 3-50.

Chasteen, John Charles. “Fighting Words: The Discourse of Insurgency in Latin American History.” Latin American Research Review 28, no.3 (1993): 83-111.

Collier, Simon. “The Historiography of the Portalian Period (1830-1891) in Chile.” Hispanic American Historical Review 57 (November 1977): 660-90.

Gelman, Jorge, and María Inés Schroeder. “Juan Manuel de Rosas contra los estancieros: Los embargos a los ‘unitarios’ de la campaña de Buenos Aires.” Hispanic American Historical Review 82, no. 3 (August 2003): 487-520.

Hunt, Lynn. “Charles Tilly’s Collective Action.” In Vision and Method in Historical Sociology, edited by Theda Skocpol, 244-75. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1984.

Kuznesof, Elizabeth A., and Robert Oppenheimer. “The Family and Society in Nineteenth-Century Latin America: An Historiographical Introduction.” Journal of Family History 10 (Fall 1985): 215-34.

Scott, Joan Wallach. “Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis.” American Historical Review 91, no. 5 (December 1986): 1053-75.

Skocpol, Theda, ed. Vision and Method in Historical Sociology. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1984.

Trimberger, Ellen Kay. “E. P. Thompson: Understanding the Process of History.” In Vision and Method in Historical Sociology, edited by Theda Skocpol, 211-43. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1984.

Weinstein, Barbara. “The Decline of the Progressive Planter and the Rise of Subaltern Agency: Shifting Narratives of Slave Emancipation in Brazil.” In Reclaiming the Political in Latin American History: Essays from the North, edited by Gilbert M. Joseph, 81-101. Durham: Duke University Press, 2001.

Van Young, Eric. “Recent Anglophone Scholarship on Mexico and Central America in the Age of Revolution (1750-1850).” Hispanic American Historical Review 65, no. 4 (November 1985): 725-44.