EARLY MODERN LATIN AMERICA (C. 1450-1820)

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This course examines the history of Latin America from the late fifteenth to the early nineteenth centuries. It focuses on the political, social, cultural, and economic interactions between Native Americans, Africans and Europeans from the early decades of Iberian exploration and conquest to the independence movements of the early nineteenth century. While attending to the systems of social, racial and gender hierarchy and discrimination implemented by Europeans, the course also emphasizes the significant ways in which Native Americans and Africans resisted and shaped colonization.