History 348: The Hispanic World,

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1 History 348: The Hispanic World, Prof. Adam Beaver Dickinson G21 OH: W, 2:00 4:00 Fall 2013 M & W, 11:00 11:50 Chancellor Green 105 Th, 1:30 2:20 Dickinson LONG BEFORE VICTORIAN Britain or modern America became synonymous with world empire, there was Spain. In the!fteenth and sixteenth centuries, the fractious kingdoms of medieval Iberia banded together to forge the!rst truly global monarchy, reaching from Latin America to the Philippines only to watch it disintegrate almost as quickly in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Understanding Spain s Golden Age is essential for interpreting not only the histories of modern Spain and Latin America, but also the history of the early modern world as a whole. Topics will include the creation of a Spanish identity; Christian, Muslim, and Jewish relations; the Renaissance; the governance of the Spanish Empire; imperial decline; and the Enlightenment. Required Texts Cowans... Early Modern Spain: A Documentary History, ed. Jon Cowans (Philadelphia, 2003). Elliott... J.H. Elliott, Spain and its World, : Selected Essays (New Haven, 1989). Kamen... Henry Kamen, Spain, : A Society of Con!ict, 3rd ed. (New York, 2005). Núñez... Francisco Núñez Muley, A Memorandum for the President of the Royal Audiencia and Chancery Court of the City and Kingdom of Granada, trans. Vincent Barletta (Chicago, 2007).... Items reprinted in the custom course reader. Schedule of Readings and Course Meetings Sep. 11 Course Introduction: Iberia John A. Crow, Spain: The Root and the Flower. An Interpretation of Spain and the Spanish People, 3rd ed. (Berkeley, 1985), Sep. 12 Sep. 16 No precept this week. The Christian Kingdoms of Fifteenth-Century Iberia J.H. Elliott, Imperial Spain, (London, 1963),

2 Sep. 18 Islam in the Late Medieval Peninsula L.P. Harvey, Islamic Spain, 1250 to 1500 (Chicago, 1990), Sep. 19 Precept 1 Sep. 23 Fernando and Isabel: The Structures of Governance Kamen, Sep. 25 Religion and the Renaissance John Edwards, The Spain of the Catholic Monarchs, (Oxford, 2000), Sep. 26 Precept 2 Cowans, documents 1 6. Sep. 30 Spain and the Atlantic, ca Camila Townsend, Burying the White Gods: New Perspectives on the Conquest of Mexico, American Historical Review 108 (2003): Oct. 2 Charles V Kamen, Oct. 3 Precept 3 Extracts from Columbus s diary [online]; Cowans, documents Oct. 7 A Problem: Vitoria and las Casas Anthony Pagden, Spanish Imperialism and the Political Imagination: Studies in European and Spanish-American Political Theory, (New Haven, 1990), Oct. 9 Spain on the World Stage [First Paper due] John Lynch, The Institutional Framework of Colonial Spanish America, Journal of Latin American Studies 24 (1992): 69 81; Cowans, document 19. Oct. 10 Precept 4 Cowans, documents & 19. Oct. 14 Philip II, the Prudent King Kamen, ; Andrew C. Hess, The Battle of Lepanto and Its Place in Mediterranean History, Past & Present 57 (1972):

3 Oct. 16 The Habsburgs and Islam Fernand Braudel, The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the age of Philip II, trans. Siân Reynolds (Berkeley, 1972), 2: Oct. 17 Precept 5 Núñez; Cowans, documents Oct. 21 Spain vs. Europe Geo#rey Parker, The Grand Strategy of Philip II (New Haven, 1998), Oct. 23 Midterm Exam Oct. 24 Precept 6 Cowans, documents 21 23, 26 27, Oct. 26 Nov. 3 Fall Recess Nov. 4 A Problem: Philip III, Strategic Culture, and the Pax Hispanica Paul C. Allen, Philip III and the Pax Hispanica, : The Failure of Grand Strategy (New Haven, 2000), 1 12, Nov. 6 Governing the Empire in the Age of the Favorite Elliott, Nov. 7 Precept 7 Cowans, documents 33 35; Lope de Vega, The King the Greatest Alcalde, in Four Plays (New York, 1936), Nov. 11 Philip IV and Olivares Elliott, Nov. 13 Art and Culture at the Spanish Court Jonathan Brown & J.H. Elliott, A Palace for a King: The Buen Retiro and the Court of Philip IV, rev. ed. (New Haven, 2003), Nov. 14 Precept 8 Cowans, documents 39 40, 42. 3

4 Nov. 18 Nov. 20 Portugal and Cataluña A Problem: Spanish Decline Elliott, Nov. 21 Precept 9 Cowans, documents Nov. 25 Charles II: Last of the Habsburgs Kamen, ; Cowans, documents Nov. 27 Dec. 1 Thanksgiving Recess Dec. 2 The War of Spanish Succession Kamen, Dec. 4 The Spanish Enlightenment Richard B. Herr, The Eighteenth Century Revolution in Spain (Princeton, 1958), 3 85; Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Nature, Empire, and Nation: Explorations in the History of Science in the Iberian World (Stanford, 2006), Dec. 5 Precept 10 Cowans, documents Dec. 9 The Bourbon Reforms and the Eve of Revolution Gabriel B. Paquette, Enlightenment, Governance, and Reform in Spain and its Empire, (Basingstoke, 2008), 1 28 & Dec. 11 The Legacy of Imperial Spain [Second Paper due] Dec. 12 Precept 11 Cowans, documents Jan Final Exams Assignments and Expectations Attendance and participation: Lectures are held on Mondays and Wednesdays; precepts are held on Thursday afternoons. Attendance at lecture and precept is crucial, as it is both (1) the 4

5 primary way for you to receive necessary background to the materials you will be reading and (2) the venue in which we will discuss those readings. Attendance and informed participation are both expected. I may ask you to prepare short written and/or oral assignments to aid the discussion. Altogether, class participation will count for 20% of the!nal grade. Examinations: There will be a midterm as well as a!nal exam. The midterm, which will take place in-class on Wednesday, 23 October, will count for 15% of the!nal grade. The!nal exam, which will take place during the regular!nal exam period in January, will count for 25% of the!nal grade. Written assignments: In addition to the small assignments which you may be asked to complete for class, there are two papers required. The!rst paper, of approximately 6 pages (ca words), will focus on the interpretation of a single primary source. It will be due in class on Wednesday, 9 October. The second paper, of approximately 10 pages (ca words), will require you to investigate a somewhat larger topic of your choosing. You may decide to do original research on a person, place, event, or theme; you may also choose to write a historiographical essay that analyzes other historians interpretations of an aspect of Spanish history. This paper will be due in class on Wednesday, 11 December. Note that this is the #nal day of courses, rather than Dean s Date this means that you must plan ahead and get to work in November and December, but it also means that you can genuinely enjoy your Winter Recess. 5