History 201-206 seminars are open to history majors only during pre-registration. If the course does not reach its enrollment maximum, it will be open to all students beginning with drop/add on a first-come first-serve basis.
HIST 205 The City in Colonial Spanish America
Walker
Taught as schedule allows (consult the Course Directory)
SEM | PRE-1800
This course will introduce students to Spanish Americas's rich urban history. The course will begin with an analysis of the role of the city in conquest society. The course will draw upon a rich body of social history on Lima, Mexico City, Quito, Bogotá and other urban centers; images of baroque and rococo architecture; city maps and street plans; travel accounts of visits to capital cities; and the material, cultural, and intellectual production made possible by the wealth and dynamism of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Through lectures, group discussions, and analytical writing assignments, this course will explore how colonial subjects lived, worked, ate, worshipped and socialized in cities that were meticulously zoned and organized around important people, places, and institutions.
