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List for Final Exam
The final exam will ask you to critically analyze and reflect upon the lectures, discussions, presentation, films, documentaries and readings we have been immersed into these past four months. I highly value the recognition of patterns and textures of historical information. You can gain easy access to these if you read your materials engaged in critical and reflective perception. It is barely enough to remember things by heart. You need to understand what transpired in the Abya-Yala in the contextual information you might handle (like the historical occurrences in Europe and/or Africa and on Turtle Island). This list is not necessarily chronological. I’ve been adding items as I revised all the material we had as well as I was drafting the questions.
These are the items the final exam has been constructed
around:
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The final exam will include questions from slide
214 onwards, in the Power presentation I have shared in our blog: http://his2170.blogspot.ca/p/final-exam.html.
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Most important mature cultures in the Abya-Yala
and the long process of trying to dismantle them.
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Revamping colonial structures
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Bourbon Reforms
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Ponbaline Reforms
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Class, ethnic relationships in the Abya-Yala
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Gender issues in regards to the colonial
transformation of the Abya-Yala.
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Carlos Saura El Dorado.
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[If you want to view the video again, you can
download the movie from this link:
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and its subtitles, here:
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[Please let me know if you have some sort of trouble
downloading, since the film is a large file: 1.2 GB]
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Indigenous
resistance to colonial imposition: the clandestine ‘state’ vs. the ‘Spaniards
state’.
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Brazil’s differences and similarities in imposing
colonial rule, comparative analysis vis-à-vis Spanish colonialism.
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The role of the Church in the formation of
colonial mentality and state apparatus.
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Unlikely but crucial heroes:
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Indigenous revolts at the end of the 18th
century
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The three Katari brothers
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Bartolina Sisa & Tupak Katari
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Micaela Bastida & Tupaj Amaru
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Doña Juana Azurduy de Padilla and the irregular
army of Mestizo and IPs fighters.
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The rise of conflicts and impasses when colonial
rule was imposed on Abya-Yalan peoples and cultures.
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The institutional framework of colonial Spanish
and Portuguese rule in the Abya-Yala.
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How, why and what for European colonial powers encroached
over indigenous cultures and peoples.
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The slave revolt of Toussaint Louverture.
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The heritage of indigenous cultures as they
create cultures of resistance.
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The wars of independence that began in 1809
until the formation of the last republic in 1825
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Actors
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Social dynamics
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Class / ethnic divisions and its dynamics in
these wars
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The formation of republics
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The chapters that you need to have read in our
textbook, are as follows:
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4. Population and
Labor
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5. Production,
Exchange, and Defense
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6. The Social
Economy: Societies of Caste and Class
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7. The Family and
Society
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8. Living in an
Empire
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9. Imperial
Expansion
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10. Crisis and Political Revolutions
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11. From Empire to Independence,
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Epilogue
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Other mandatory reading:
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Derek Rasmussen's "The priced versus the
priceless", available in our blog, at: http://www.lionsroar.ca/pdfs/price-vs-priceless.pdf.
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New Perspectives on Women and Migration in
Colonial Latin America: http://www.cibera.de/fulltext/2/2599/~plas/publications/Cuadernos/cuaderno4.pdf.
Power point presentation
These are copies of the presentation I used for this class, in various formats:- Original, in Power Point (.ppt) format, 56 MB
- 2 slides per page, 173 pages, PDF format, 15.4 MB
- 6 slides per page, 58 pages, PDF format, 9.6 MB
* Let me know if a link is not working.
Final Exam for HIS2170A is on
- Saturday December 15th (2012);
- from 14:00 to 17:00
- at ART 257.
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