Indians, Spaniards & Creoles

A history of Latin American society and civilization in the formative era of Iberian (Spanish & Portuguese) colonialism, 1492 through c. 1810. The course looks at major precolumbian civilizations; the Spanish Conquest; and nature of Spanish-Indian relations. It stresses the impact of Iberian values, norms, and institutions, i.e. Church and State, on the emergence of unique new hybrid or Creole societies by the end of the period.