The Spanish Empire: Class Sessions and Reading Assignments

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Class Sessions and Reading Assignments

This is a page that lists the class sessions and assignments for J. B. Owens's fall 1999 course The Spanish Empire.
CONSIDER: "An idea is always grasped in relative association, never in absolute isolation, and no idea, in history, keeps a changeless self-identity."
--Joseph R. Levenson, Confucian China and Its Modern Fate

Note

For your own good, no one who expects to do well in this course should be carrying over SIXTEEN CREDIT-HOURS this semester; fewer if you are working more than 10 hours per week.

Note Bene

Permission to miss an exam, to submit late work, or to be absent from class will only be granted if PRIOR notification has been given to me through the means provided below, unless such notification is impossible. Because failure to take an exam or to complete work will give you a zero for the assignment, you should not miss exams, submit unexcused late work, nor fail to make up any missed exam or assignment for which an excuse has been obtained.

As CLASS ATTENDANCE is important, it is mandatory. Moreover, if you miss four (4) or more classes, you will FAIL THIS COURSE.

Office: Liberal Arts, room 344
236-3232 (LA office)
236-2379 (Dept. Sec.; messages)
owenjack@isu.edu
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Assignments: All reading assignments are to be completed by the date indicated. By clicking your mouse on the highlighted date, you will find additional information and/or study questions about each session. The information and questions are designed to highlight material important for the course's analytical approach. Therefore, you must make sure that you understand this approach.

23 August Asking the right questions; developing an information search design.
25 August Mental Mapping: what do students know about world geography?
30 August Where in the world's history is _________? PROJECT DISCUSSION.
1 September Afroeurasia at the beginning of the First Global Age. PROJECT LOCUS LOTTERY.
6 September. LABOR DAY HOLIDAY, no class.
8 September Warrior dynasties of the plague era: the Houses of Aviz and Trastámara.
10 September. PROJECT BIBLIOGRAPHY due by 1:00 pm.
13 September Mediterranean sphere/Atlantic sphere: capital, sugar, wool.
15 September West Africa and the Atlantic.
20 September The Americas at the beginning of the First Global Age.
22 September Common intentions: trading- post implantations; religious reform and the friars. EXAM preparation page ready by 3:30 pm.
27 September "The Cross and the Sword."
29 September FIRST EXAMINATION.
4 October Establishing the Estado da India.
6 October "Plague Era" America and the Great Conquests.
11 October European territorial expansion: the Habsburg connection.
13 October American possibilities/American problems.
18 October Where in the world's history is Guadalajara? NO CLASS.
20 October. NO CLASS. Continued work on projects; report due by 3:30 pm on Thursday, 21 October.
25 October Slavery in Africa and the developing Atlantic networks. EXAM preparation page ready by 3:30 pm.
27 October Working American resources.
1 November SECOND EXAMINATION.
3 November Defining policy in a troubled age: Whose interests? What place?
8 November Vast and vulnerable networks.
10 November Living and working in Castilian and Portuguese America.
15 November Human migrations and information networks: the African case.
17 November Africans and Christianity: networked interactions and the shaping of the interpretive schemes of the cultural environment.
22 November Roots of a "Golden Age"; roots of "decline."
24 November. THANKSGIVING VACATION, no class.
29 November Holding out and holding on.
1 December The "New Colonialism" in Latin America and the independence of Portuguese and Spanish America in its global context.
6 December Latin American independence; the fragments of empire and their modern fate in the new age of industrialization, dictatorial imperialism, the "state," and liberal constitutionalism.
8 December. Continuation of the discussion of 6 December. EXAM preparation page ready by 3:30 pm.
NOTE: I will be in Denver for a meeting to pick candidates for Fulbright research grants to Portugal and Spain from sometime on 10 December until sometime on 14 December. Therefore, I will not be available during my office hours nor to respond to queries posted to the SpEmp discussion list.
17 December [1:30-4:00 pm] THIRD EXAMINATION.

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Revised: 24 November 1999

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