Catalog Number: 5991
Kenneth R. Maxwell (on leave spring semester 2008)
Half course (Spring term). M., W., at 11. EXAM GROUP: 4
Although the course will be organized chronologically, it will focus on distinctive historical turning points and seek to explain how and why distinctive societies developed in the region over the colonial centuries. The lectures will also delineate the ways colonial Latin America was connected into Atlantic and global developments between 1492 and 1825. It will not seek to provide a comprehensive survey of all aspects of colonial Latin American history in a traditional sense.

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Note: Expected to be given in 2008-2009