a. Clerical influences.
b. Early tendencies and schools.
c. Writers: Zumarraga, Las Casas, Ercilla, Balbuena, Juana Ines de la Cruz, Espejo.
Language; customs; education; religion; political theories and institutions.
Required Readings: Shepherd, 59-68; Moses, South America on the Eve of Emancipation, 143-166; Coester, The Literary History of Spanish America, 1-38.
Additional Readings: Humboldt, Personal Narrative of Travels; Ingenieros, La Revolucion, 29-78; Bunge, Nuestra America.
1. Diplomatic relations of Spain and Portugal in 17th and 18th Centuries.
2. The Viceroyalties:
a. New Spain, 1534.
b. Peru, 1542.
c. New Granada, 1739.
d. La Plata, 1776.
3. Indian Wars and political insurrections.
4. The favored and the neglected colonies.
5. Colonial defence—military and naval.
a. New Spain, 1534.
b. Peru, 1542.
c. New Granada, 1739.
d. La Plata, 1776.
Readings: Keller, 316-325; Watson, Spanish and Portuguese South America; Moses, The Spanish Dependencies in South America.
Chapter III. Settlement of Brazil and Portuguese Institutions.
1. The voyage of Cabral; Portuguese claims; Correia, Coelho, de Souza.
2. Early settlements; attitude of Portuguese toward Brazil; founding of cities.
3. Portuguese system of colonization in Brazil.
a. The captaincies.
b. The "desembargo do paco."
c. Theory and practice; frequent changes in the administrative service.
d. Comparison with Portuguese colonial system in the East Indies.
e. The church in colonial Brazil; the aldeias; work of Anchieta, Nobrega, Vieyra.
4. Treatment of the natives; intermarriage; regulations as to labor system.
5. Importation of negro slaves, 1502; slave trade; the Companhia do Grao Para; slave codes.
6. The Portuguese commercial system:
a. The "India House" and the "Guinea House."
b. Mercantilism and monopoly.
c. Participation of the English in the Portuguese trade.
d. Colonial products of Brazil.
7. Beginning of Westward Movement in Brazil.
a. Settlement of Sao Paulo.
b. Government of the frontier; the Paulistas; Mamelucos.
c. Discovery of Gold, 1693; diamonds, 1730.
8. Society and thought in Brazil.
9. Conflict with the French and Dutch.
10. Relations of Brazil and Portugal.
Required Readings: Denis, Brazil, 27-78; Morris, I, 214-220; Keller, 131-167; Watson, Vol. II, 1-26; Rio Branco, Esquisse de l'Histoire du Brésil, 105-152.
Additional Readings: De Lannoy and Van der Linden, 11-26; 172-181; 225-238; Merivale, Lectures, 47 et seq.; Pinheiro, Historia do Brazil; Southey, History of Brazil; Varnhagen, Historia Geral do Brazil, Vol. I.
1. The voyage of Cabral; Portuguese claims; Correia, Coelho, de Souza.
2. Early settlements; attitude of Portuguese toward Brazil; founding of cities.
3. Portuguese system of colonization in Brazil.
a. The captaincies.
b. The "desembargo do paco."
c. Theory and practice; frequent changes in the administrative service.
d. Comparison with Portuguese colonial system in the East Indies.
e. The church in colonial Brazil; the aldeias; work of Anchieta, Nobrega, Vieyra.
4. Treatment of the natives; intermarriage; regulations as to labor system.
5. Importation of negro slaves, 1502; slave trade; the Companhia do Grao Para; slave codes.
6. The Portuguese commercial system:
a. The "India House" and the "Guinea House."
b. Mercantilism and monopoly.
c. Participation of the English in the Portuguese trade.
d. Colonial products of Brazil.
7. Beginning of Westward Movement in Brazil.
a. Settlement of Sao Paulo.
b. Government of the frontier; the Paulistas; Mamelucos.
c. Discovery of Gold, 1693; diamonds, 1730.
8. Society and thought in Brazil.
9. Conflict with the French and Dutch.
10. Relations of Brazil and Portugal.
a. The captaincies.
b. The "desembargo do paco."
c. Theory and practice; frequent changes in the administrative service.
d. Comparison with Portuguese colonial system in the East Indies.
e. The church in colonial Brazil; the aldeias; work of Anchieta, Nobrega, Vieyra.