University of Dayton     Department of History

HST 383:  The History of the Caribbean

GENERAL EDUCATION
The Arts and Human Experience Cluster

Dr. Juan C. Santamarina
Office Hours:  M-W 9:30pm-10:15am , and by appointment.  HM 443
santamar@udayton.edu
Office Phone: (937) 229-2834

THIS WEBPAGE WAS LAST UPDATED 12/09/2009 at 10:00am


I.  COURSE BASICS
ANNOUNCEMENTS:

FINAL EXAM REVIEW IS CURRENT AND FINAL

Document Analysis Worksheet--USE THIS WORKSHEET FOR EACH DOCUMENT DUE ON THURSDAYS
READINGS

MAP OF THE CARIBBEAN
COURSE DESCRIPTION, REQUIREMENTS, AND GRADING

II.  IMPORTANT DATES

Term Paper Proposals Due Tuesday (Week 8)
Exam # 1 Review Posted
Exam #1  Tues (Week 7)
Exam # 2 Review Posted 
Exam #2 Thurs (Week 13)
Term Papers Draft Due for Peer Review Thurs (Week 15)
Print and bring with you this peer review
Term Papers Final Draft Due Thurs (Week 16) (DECEMBER 10, 2009)
FINAL EXAM:

 Final Exam (FRIDAY DEC 18, 2009, 12:20-2:10)

III.  WEEKLY SCHEDULE
 

I. ORIGINS

Week 1 (8/24)

TOPIC:

  • Course Introduction
  • Historiography and History as a Discipline
  • What's New in History...?
Week 2 (8/31) READ:  Las Casas, A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies;  Knight, Chpt 1

TOPIC:

  • MAP OF THE CARIBBEAN
  • Native Peoples--Caribs, Arawaks, and Tainos
  • Is there One Caribbean?  Is the Caribbean both colonial and "Western"?
II. CONQUEST AND COLONY
Week 3 (9/7--Monday--Labor Day No Classes)		 READ:  Las Casas, A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies;  Knight, Chpt 2-3,

READ:  Camila Townsend, "Burying the White Gods: New Perspectives on the Conquest of Mexico," American Historical Review 108:3 (June 2003): 659-687 [Full-Text on History Cooperative] and ensuing debate on H-LATAM.

TOPIC:

Week 4 (9/14) READ:   Knight, Chpt 4-5

READ:  “Taking Possession and Reading Texts: Establishing the Authority of Overseas Empires” by Patricia Seed  The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, Vol. 49, No. 2 (Apr., 1992), pp. 183-209  JSTOR Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2947269

TOPIC:

Week 5 (9/21) READ: Knight, Chpt. 7


TOPIC:

Week 6 (9/28) TUESDAY:  Haiti, Contd.

THURSDAY:  EXAM REVIEW
III. SUGAR AND SLAVERY
Week 7 (10/5)
TUESDAY:  EXAM 1

THURSDAY:  NO CLASSES


Week 8 (10/12)
 READ:  Knight, Chpt 6

FILM:  Haiti:  Land of Tragedy, Land of Hope

http://dmc.ohiolink.edu/cgi/i/image/image-idx?cc=dvc;view=entry;entryid=x-33620;viewid=33620.RM

FILM:  Apocalypto

TOPIC:

  • Interpretations of the Past in Film
Week 9 (10/19)

TOPIC:

  • FILM:  CRUCIBLE OF EMPIRE:  THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR
    		•

    Week 10 (10/26)    		 READ:   Jose Marti's Letter to the editor, New York Evening Post, March 25, 1889

    TOPIC:

  • Lecture #7:  Cuba:  Revolution and Nationalism
  • Discussion:  CUBA:  A LIFETIME OF PASSION
    • Cuba Timeline
    IV. THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
     

    Week 11 (11/2)
  • FILM:  Fidel
    		•
    Week 12 (11/9) READ: Knight 8-11
    Week 13 (11/16)
    TUES:  EXAM REVIEW

    THURS:  EXAM #2
     

    Week 14 (11/23) (Thanksgiving on Nov 26--NO CLASSES)

    		 Lecture #8:  From Colony to Colony:  Puerto Rico
    IV. CONCLUSION
    Weeks 15-16 (11/30 and 12/7)
     
     
     
    • Thu, Dec 8 Feast of the Immaculate Conception—Christmas on Campus—no classes
    • LAST DAY OF CLASSES IS 12/10/09