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His Of Colonial Latin Am, 1492 To 1810

A broad survey of the social, economic, political and cultural development of Latin America from the fifteenth century to 1810. Includes analysis of such topics as pre-Columbian societies on the eve of conquest, the Iberian kingdoms in the Age of Expansion, the conquest and colonization of the indigenous cultures of the New World, the establishment of Spanish and Portuguese institutions, the relations between the Church and the State, the encomienda and the hacienda, slavery and the impact of the Bourbon Reforms on America.

Latinx Histories

This course provides an introduction to the history of Latinxs (and Hispanics, a distinction in terms the course will address) in the United States. It explores the diverse roots, changing identities, and social and political impact of various historical actors-women and men, natives and immigrants, political leaders and political dissidents, exiles and refugees-whose actions, interactions, and dynamics shaped the country and defined its character, its politics, its culture, its economics, and its social structures-in other words, its history.

African American History To 1865

African American history has many beginnings all over the Atlantic World in Europe, North and South America, and Africa. This course begins with by blending and connecting the histories of many continents then moves on to focus on the lives of Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and African Americans in what became the Untied States of America.

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