Espaços e Poderes na Época Moderna (not translated)
Code
722051115
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
História
Credits
10
Teacher in charge
Diogo Ramada Curto
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
a) Know the basic characteristics of European colonial rule in America during the period between the fifteenth and
eighteenth centuries.
b) Identify key processes political, economic, social and cultural rights that marked the history of colonial America between
the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries.
c) Know the main historiographical interpretations of the subjects studied.
d) Know the basic bibliography on the topic and be able to work with historical documents of the same.
e) Develop ability to communicate orally and in writing, integrating vocabulary and specific categories of subjects studied.
f) Acquire skills that enable a continuation of studies on the European empires in America during the modern era
Prerequisites
none
Subject matter
TOPIC: The Americas under European colonial rule (sécs. XVI-XVIII)
One. Imagination and imperial dynamics of the modern era in the Atlantic.
2nd. The contact and the classification of the American world.
3rd. Conquest, occupation and settlement. The status of U.S. territories within the European monarchies.
4th. The response of non-European populations. Terms of resistance and accommodation. Mestizaje.
5th. American cities in the world. The development of a colonial economy. The enslavement of hand labor and indigenous
African.
6th. The political-administrative structure and the Spanish American military (to ca. 1600).
7th. The Portuguese America under the Hapsburgs. Administrative reforms and territorial expansion.
Eight. The British and French presence in America. The slow development of plantations.
9th. The Dutch initiative in the Americas (WIC). Maurits De Stadt in Nieuw-Amsterdam.
10. The pockets of resistance against the colonial authorities.
Bibliography
ELLIOTT, John H., Imperios del Mundo Atlántico. España y Gran Bretaña en América, 1492-1830, Madrid, Taurus Historia, 2006.
GARAVAGLIA, Juan Carlos & MARCHENA, Juan, Historia de la América Latina. De los orígenes a la independencia, Madrid, Crítica, 2005.
HAVARD, Gilles & VIDAL, Cécile, Histoire de l´Amérique française, Paris, Flammarion, 2003.
SCHWARTZ, Stuart B. & LOCKHART, James (orgs.), A América Latina na época colonial, Rio de Janeiro, Civilização Brasileira, 2002.
CANNY, Nicholas (org.), The Origins of Empire, British Overseas Enterprise to the Close of the Seventeenth Century, vol. I de Oxford History of the British Empire, Oxford, Oxford University Press,1998.
Teaching method
Classes theoretical nature.
Practical classes:
- Exercise of review of documents
- The presentation and discussion of group work
Activities aimed at teaching - assistance to conferences
Evaluation method
element written assessment: a written work.