University of Dayton     Department of History

HST 382:  The History of Mexico

GENERAL EDUCATION
The Arts and Human Experience Cluster

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

THIS WEBPAGE WAS LAST UPDATED 7/21/2010 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 THURSDAY

 

READINGS
COURSE DESCRIPTION, REQUIREMENTS, AND GRADING

II.  IMPORTANT DATES
Exam #1 Review
Exam #1  Tues (Week 7)
Term Paper Proposals Due Tues (Week 8)
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 EXAMIN CLASS 12/16/10, 2:30-4:20; ESSAY SUBMITTED TO ISIDORE

III.  WEEKLY SCHEDULE
 
I. ORIGINS OF MEXICO

Week 1 (Th 8/26)


TOPIC:

  • Requirements, Introduction
  • What's New in History?
Week 2 (8/31) READ:  Meyer, Chpts. 1-3
FILM:  The Aztec Empire

TOPIC:

    Mexico before Cortez:
    1. The Mature Aztec Empire:  Political Organization
    2. Socio-Economic Structure
    3. Aztec Culture
    4. Aztec Religion and Human Sacrifice
Week 3 (9/7--Monday--Labor Day No Classes) READ:  Meyer, Chpts. 4-5

TUESDAY:  FILM:  Conquistadores

THURSDAY:  Document Discussion (read, bring to class, and do a Document Analysis Worksheet for 1 of them)

1.  Hernan Cortés: from Second Letter to Charles V, 1520
2.  The New Laws of the Indies, 1542 Spain's pro-Indian laws.
3.  Lope de Aguirre: Letter from to King Philip of Spain, 1561

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


TOPIC AND IN-CLASS MATERIALS:

  • Cortez and Conquest;  FILM: Conquistadors
    1. An Old Tale repeated again
    2. Conquest as an Intellectual and Psychological Legacy
Week 4 (9/14)  READ:  Meyer, Chpts. 6-8

TUESDAY:  The Imperial System

THURSDAY:  Document Discussion (read, bring to class, and do a Document Analysis Worksheet for 1 of them)

1.  Henry C Lea (1829-1909): The Inquisition in 17th-Century Peru: Cases of Portuguese Judaizers
2.  Hubert Howe Bancroft: Burial of an Archbishop-Viceroy in Mexico City, 1612

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

TOPIC AND IN-CLASS MATERIALS:

Structure of Colonial Government

"Monty Python's Spanish Inquisition"

Mel Brooks Spanish Inquisition (From "History of the World Part 1")

TOPIC:

    1. The Imperial System
    2. Colonial Society
    3. The Indian
II. COLONIAL MEXICO

Week 5 (9/21)

READ:  Meyer, Chpts. 9-13
1.  Alexander Von Humboldt:  Problems And Progress in Mexico, c. 1800

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



TOPIC:

Week 6 (9/28) READ:  Meyer, Chpts. 14-17
1.  Simón de Bolívar:  Message to the Congress of Angostura, 1819
2.  Monroe Doctrine, 1823

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


TOPIC:

    1. Dynastic Crises and Revolt
    2. The Early trials of Nationhood
    3. Iturbide
    4. Centralists and Federalists, Conservatives and Liberals



THURSDAY:  EXAM 1 REVIEW

Week 7 (10/5)
Tuesday:  EXAM #1


Thurs:  NO CLASS

Week 8 (10/12) READ:  Meyer, Chpts. 18-21

TUESDAY:
DISCUSSION OF PAPER PROPOSALS AND CHICAGO STYLE

THURSDAY:
FILM:  The Mexican War

1.  Declaration of Texan Independence

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

TOPIC:

Week 9 (10/19) READ:  Meyer, Chpts. 22-25
1.  Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo of 1848
2.  Official US Army History of the Mexican War

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


TOPIC:

III. THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

Week 10 (10/26)

READ:  Meyer, Chpts. 26-29
READ:  Rochfort, Desmond. Mexican Muralists: Orozco, Rivera, Siqueiros. NY: Universe, 1993.

Mexican Muralists:  Diego Rivera

Week 11 (11/2)

READ:  Meyer, Chpts. 30-35
FILM:  The Mexican Revolution
1. Channing Arnold & Frederick J. Tabor Frost: The Rule of Porfirio Diaz, 1909
2. Francisco Madero: The Plan of San Luis Potosi, November 20, 1910

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


TOPIC:

Week 12 (11/9) READ:  Meyer, Chpts. 36-39)
1.  George M. McBride: Haciendas from The Land Systems of Mexico, 1923
2.  Inter-American Committee: Problems of Latin American Economies, 1965

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


TOPIC:

      The Mexican Revolution:  The Constructive Phase
      1. Progress and Pretense

      2. Lazaro Cardenas, 1934-1980
Week 13 (11/16) READ:
Trends in Unauthorized Immigration: Undocumented Inflow Now
Trails Legal Inflow

Mexican Immigrants in the United States, 2008

TUESDAY:

Mexican Immigration and US law

THURSDAY:

TOPIC:

  • Mexico:  Immigration to the US and Drug Trade
++++Bruce Springsteen, The Ghost of Tom Joad Album, Released 1995

Sinaloa Cowboys { lyrics }
real audio | WMA: 28k | 56k | 100k

The Line { lyrics }
real audio | WMA: 28k | 56k | 100k

Balboa Park { lyrics }
real audio | WMA: 28k | 56k | 100k

Across The Border { lyrics }
real audio | WMA: 28k | 56k | 100k


+++++NARCO CORRIDOS (Ballads of Narco-trafficking across the border) in Music
“The corridos are attempts by Mexican society to come to terms with the world around them, and drug violence is a big part of that world. The songs are born out of a traditional Mexican cynicism: This is our reality, we’ve gotten used to it. You cannot blame narcocorridos for drug violence. Drug violence is to blame for narcocorridos.”

NY Times article, "Minstrels in the Court of the Kingpin", March 7, 2010

--NARCO CORRIDOS 2010(DIEGO SIERRA CON TUBA)

--El Mas Bravo De Los Bravos(El Muleta-Raydel )

--More NARCO CORRIDOS Music and Videos from YouTube
Week 14 (11/23)  THURSDAY IS THANKSGIVING--NO CLASSES


ORAL PROGRESS REPORTS ON TERM PAPER PROGRESS--about 2 minutes each:
PRESENT THE FOLLOWING:
  • Paper Topic
  • Thesis
  • Sources (primary and secondary)


IV. CONCLUSION
Week 15 (11/30)

READ:  Meyer, Chpts. 40-45.
The Life of a Maquiladora Worker

NAFTA AND THE NEW ECONOMIC FRONTIER

MEXICO CITY


TOPIC:

    Mexico Since 1980:  The Revolution Matures
    1. The Industrial Boom
    2. The Industrial State Consolidated
    3. Demographic Boom and Migration to Urban Areas 
    4. Petroleum rescues the PRI, 1976-1982
THURSDAY: 

FIRST DRAFT OF TERM PAPERS DUE--ABSOLUTELY NO LATE PAPERS ACCEPTED.  YOU MUST BE IN CLASS WITH YOUR PRINTED PAPER.  Also, print and bring with you this peer review

 
Week 16 (12/7)

  • Thu, Dec 8 Feast of the Immaculate Conception—Christmas on Campus—no classes
  • LAST DAY OF CLASSES IS 12/10/10
TUESDAY:  FINAL EXAM REVIEW

THURSDAY:

--FINAL DRAFT OF PAPERS ARE DUE

TURN IN:

1--Final Paper to isidore.udayton.edu

2--In Class you will turn in the First Draft, Peer Review, and Final Draft

3--You will present to the class, in about 2 minutes:
  • Paper Topic
  • Thesis
  • Major findings/conclusions