Paper 21 reading list - Faculty of History

1: The New World Before the European Invasion
Alcock, Susan and Terence D’Altroy, eds. Empires: Perspectives from Archaeology and History. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2001.
Brumfiel, Elizabeth. “Aztec hearts and minds: religion and the state in the Aztec empire.” In: Susan Alcock and Terence
D’Altroy, Empires, 283-310.
Cohen, Paul. Was there an Amerindian Atlantic? Reflections on the limits of a historiographical concept. History of
European Ideas, vol. 34, issue 4, Dec. 2008, 388-410.
Covey, Alan. “The Inca Empire.” In: Helaine Silverman and William H. Isbell. Handbook of South American
Archaeology. Springer: New York, 2008, 809-830. (available online).
Smith, Michael. “The Aztec Empire and the Mesoamerican World System.” In: Alcock and D’Altroy, Empires, 128-154.
2. Conquest
Suzanne Alchon. A Pest in the Land: New World Epidemics in a Global Perspective. Albuquerque: University of New
Mexico Press, 2003.
Cook, N. David. Born to Die: Disease and New World conquest, 1492-1650. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1998.
Greenblatt, Stephen. Marvelous Possessions: The wonder of the New World. Oxford: Clarendon, 1991.
Matthew, Laura and Michel Oudijk, eds. Indian conquistadors: Indigenous allies in the conquest of Mesoamerica.
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007.
McNeill, William. Plagues and People. New York: Anchor Books Doubleday, 1998 (electronic book).
Restall, Mathew. Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. (available online).
3. The First Globalization
Bakewell, Peter. A History of Latin America: Empires and Sequels, 1450-1930. Oxford: Blackwell, 1997.
Bauer, Arnold J. Goods, Power, History:Latin America’s Material Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2001.
Benjamin, Thomas. The Atlantic World: Europeans, Africans, Indians and their shared history, 1400-1900. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Elliott, John H. Empires of the Atlantic World: Britain and Spain in America, 1492-1830. New Haven: Yale University
Press, 2006.
Klein, Herbert and Ben Vinson III, African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean. 2 nd edition. New York: Oxford
University Press, 2007.
Mintz, Sidney. Sweetness and Power. New York: Viking Pinguin, 1985.
Moya Pons, Frank. History of the Caribbean. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
PJ Bakewell A History of Latin America, c. 1450 to the present. Malden: Blackwell, 2004.
D Brading The First America (1991), Part 1
A. Cañeque The King’s Living Image: The Culture and Politics of Viceregal Power in Colonial Mexico.
New York: Routledge, 2004. (Chapter 4).
K. Deagan “Dynamics of imperial adjustment in Spanish America: Ideology and social integration.” In:
Alcock, S. and Terence D’Altroy, eds. Empires, Perspectives from Archaeology and History,
179-194.
S Schwartz (ed.) Implicit Understandings: observing encounters in the early modern era (1994), chapter by
Lockhart on Nahua
A Pagden Lords of all the World
L. Bethell Cambridge History of Latin America
D. Watts, The West Indies, chapter 2 and 3.
J. Lockhart and S. Schwartz, Early Latin America