Post on 02-Jan-2016
Colonial Latin AmericaColonial Latin AmericaEconomy, Church, and State
The Aftermath of Conquest The Legacies of Contact The “Columbian Exchange” Ecological Conquest? Physical and Psychological Effects
Slave & Master, late 18th c. Quito
Castas, Eighteenth-Century
Mexico
The Emerging Colonial Economy The Example of Cortés The Encomienda
Iberian Precedents Abuses and “Reform”
The Rise of the Landowning Class The Hacienda and Hacendados
Colonial Agriculture Sugar: “Sweetness and Power”
The Mining Sector Mineral Wealth in the Americas The European Ideal (“Mercantilism”) The Mineral Cycle Indigenous Effects European Effects
Financing Empire Long-Term Fiscal Trends
La Valencia Silver Mine, La Valencia Silver Mine, Guanajuato, MexicoGuanajuato, Mexico
Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Colonial Administration The Council of the Indies The Casa de Contratación
Closed Ports and Monopolies (The Ideal) The Reality
Colonial Administration: Viceroys and Audiencias→Corregidores and Cabildos, local power networks
The Republica de los Indios Caciques
Portugal and Colonial Brazil Pedro Álvarez Cabral’s “discovery,” 1500 The “Factory” Period
The feitoria Economic and Political Motivations
Proprietary Settlements (“Captaincies”) The Addition of Royal Administration
The French Threat The Indian Question Tomé de Sousa (admin. 1549-1553)
The Sugar Cycle and African Slavery
Church and State The Role of the Church
Patronato Real The Incomplete “Spiritual Conquest” of America
Syncretism Church vs. Landowners “Just War” and the “Indian Question”
Bartolome de las Casas (vs. Sepúlveda) “New Laws” of the Indies, 1542
Alcoman Monastery
Altar at National Cathedral
Interior View, Cholula Cathedral
Cuernavaca
San Jose Mission, San Antonio
Valladolid
Yaxcabá (in the Yucatán)