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The Spanish Empire: Books

All of the following must be purchased, and reading assigned in them must be completed by the date listed in the reading and lecture topic page.

• Mark A. Burkholder and Lyman L. Johnson, Colonial Latin America. 4th ed. Oxford University Press, 2000. paperback ISBN: 0195137027
• Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, How to Write the History of the New World: Histories, Epistemologies, and Identities in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World. Stanford University Press, 2002. paperback ISBN: 080474693-1
• John Thornton, Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800, 2nd ed. rev. Cambridge University Press, 1998. paperback ISBN: 0521627249

We will also be reading selections from two online books, made available through the LIBRO Project.

• Stanley G. Payne, A History of Spain and Portugal, Vol. 1 (Antiquity to the Seventeenth Century). Print version: University of Wisconsin Press, 1973.
• Stanley G. Payne, A History of Spain and Portugal, Vol. 2 (18th-20th centuries). Print version: University of Wisconsin Press, 1973.

NOTE

Turn your books into dialogues: Write your questions in the margin as they occur to you; look for answers as you read and then write these, as you understand them, in the margins. The exams will be a breeze if you read this way, and you will do brilliantly in the electronic discussions.

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