MAS 141 Topics & Readings
*Welcome * History * Historiography * Approaches to History
Reading (Optional): Vigil, Introduction
NEW WORLD LEGACY: 50,000bc to 1500ad
* New World & Precolumbian Classification
* Topography/Geography * Origins of Human Development *Schools of Thought
Reading(s): Websites : Olmecs, Teotihuacan, Toltecs, Maya, Aztecs
HyperText Online: First Americans and Exploration and Discovery
THE PRECOLUMBIANS: 3,000bc to 1519ad
*Chichimecs *Olmecs *Teotihuacan *Maya *Toltecs *Mexica
Reading(s): Websites : Olmecs, Teotihuacan, Toltecs, Maya, Aztecs
Text: Vigil, Chpts: 1, 2, 3
Digital History:
Read de Baca and Coronado articles
THE CONQUEST: 1300 to 1521ad
* Europe * The Players * The Factors * Retrospect
Reading(s): Website : The Conquest of the Aztecs
                       Text: Vigil, Chpt 3
                       Digital History:
de Baca & Coronado articles
Aztlan: Its meaning
SPANISH INSTITUTIONS: 1500s to 1800s
* Politics * Economy * Society *Cladio Veliz and the Centralist Tradition
Readings:   Text: Vigil, Chpt 3, 4
                 HyperText Online:
THE ENGLISH LEGACY: 1200 to 1607
* Politics * Economy * Society * Decentralist Society
COLONIAL EXPERIENCE (1600s TO 1800s)
*Americans on the Make  *Mexicans on the Make
Reading(s): Survey Text:  United States & Mexico's  Independence
                       Text: Vigil, Chpt 5,6
                      
Digital History: Consequence of Mexican Independence
FORGING A CONSTITUTION (1787 &  1824)
The American Experiment    *The Articles of Confederation    *US Constitution;       *The Mexican Experiment
In US survey text: review "Articles of Confederation" and the "United States Constitution"
19TH CENTURY MIND-SET  EXPANSION: 1800 to 1870s
* Conquest and Dispossession * Culture Clash: Assimilation, Acculturation, Pluralism, Internal Colonialism
Optional:  Leonard Pitt's Decline of the California
* A Case Study on Internal Colonialism: Decline of the Californios
Library Reserves:  Reginald Horseman's "Anglo-Saxon's and Mexicans"
* California on the Make: The Constitution
Reading(s):  Vigil, Chpt 5, 6
                       Digital History: TBA
INDUSTRIALIZATION &  THE CIVIL WAR: 1800 to 1870s
* Economic Transformation * Causes * Forgotten Loyalist: Mexicans &  the US Civil War
Reading(s): Mario Barrera's "The Development of a Colonial Labor System" and "Conquest & Dispossession."
Note: I reserve the right to make any adjustments in the lectures and/or readings.