HISTORY 2503

STATE AND SOCIETY IN LATIN AMERICA

Fall Term 1999

M 7:00-9:30 PM 3P56 Forbes Quad

Instructor: Reid Andrews

Office: 3P38 Forbes Quad

Telephone: 648-7452, 247-4604 E-mail: reid1+@pitt.edu

This course is intended to introduce students to current debates on the history of state/society relations in Latin America. Rather than attempt a comprehensive overview of that history, we will survey some recent examples of how historians and social scientists have sought to study state/society relations over time. In so doing, we will sample a variety of approaches and will try to evaluate the relative strengths and weaknesses of each. We will also consider some of the theoretical and methodological problems that historians encounter when they try to combine political and social history.

REQUIREMENTS

During September, October, and November, students will write one short (five pages) paper per month. Each paper will be based on class reading, will be written in response to questions provided by the instructor, and will be due at the class meeting at which the reading is discussed. A final synthetic paper, surveying the course as a whole, will be due at the final meeting, on December 13. Late papers will not be accepted.

Final grades will be based 50 percent on the papers and 50 percent on class participation.

SCHEDULE OF CLASS MEETINGS

I. Introduction

August 30--Introduction

September 6--Labor Day; no class

September 13--Theory

Theda Skocpol, "Bringing the State Back In," in Peter B. Evans et al., eds., Bringing the State Back In (Cambridge and New York, 1985), 3-37

Philip Abrams, "Notes on the Difficulty of Studying the State," Journal of Historical Sociology 1, 1 (1988), 58-89

Karen Barkey and Sunita Parikh, "Comparative Perspectives on the State," Annual Review of Sociology 17 (1991), 523-49

Joel S. Migdal et al., eds., State Power and Social Forces: Domination and Transformation in the Third World (Cambridge and New York, 1994), 1-34

Doug McAdam et al., eds., Comparative Perspectives on Social Movements: Political Opportunities, Mobilizing Structures, and Cultural Framings (Cambridge and New York, 1996), 1-20

II. Colonialism

September 20--Steve J. Stern, Peru's Indian Peoples and the Challenge of Spanish Conquest: Huamanga to 1640 (Madison, 1993)

September 27--Enrique Tandeter, Coercion and Market: Silver Mining in Colonial Potosí, 1692-1826 (Albuquerque, 1993)

October 4--Scarlett O'Phelan Godoy, Un siglo de rebeliones anticoloniales: Perú y Bolivia, 1700-1783 (Cuzco, 1988)

October 11--William B. Taylor, Magistrates of the Sacred: Priests and Parishioners in Eighteenth-Century Mexico (Stanford, 1996), 1-26, 345-473

III. Nation-Building

October 18--Elections

Richard Graham, Patronage and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Brazil (Stanford, 1990), 101-45, 182-206

Eduardo Posada-Carbó, "Malabarismos electorales: Una historia comparativa de la corrupción del sufragio en América Latina, 1830-1930" (unpublished paper, 1997)

Paula Alonso, "Voting in Buenos Aires (Argentina) Before 1912," and J. Samuel Valenzuela, "Building Aspects of Democracy Before Democracy" Electoral Practices in Nineteenth Century Chile," in Eduardo Posada-Carbó, ed., Elections Before Democracy: The History of Elections in Europe and Latin America (London, 1996), 181-99, 223-57

Hilda Sábato, "Elecciones y prácticas electorales en Buenos Aires, 1860-1880. ¿Sufragio universal sin ciudadanía política?", in Antonio Annino, ed., Historia de las elecciones en Iberoamérica, siglo XIX (Mexico, 1995), 107-42

Richard Warren, "Elections and Popular Political Participation in Mexico, 1808-1836," and Vincent Peloso, "Liberals, Electoral Reform, and the Popular Vote in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Peru," in Barbara Tenenbaum and Vincent Peloso, eds., Liberals, Politics, and Power: State Formation in Nineteenth-Century Latin America (Athens, 1996), 30-57, 186-211

October 25--Florencia Mallon, Peasant and Nation: The Making of Postcolonial Mexico and Peru (Berkeley, 1995)

IV. Revolution

November 1--Alan Knight, The Mexican Revolution, volume 1, Porfirians, Liberals and Peasants (Cambridge and New York, 1986)

November 8--Alan Knight, The Mexican Revolution, volume 2, Counter-Revolution and Reconstruction (Cambridge and New York, 1986)

November 15--Gilbert Joseph and Daniel Nugent, eds., Everyday Forms of State Formation: Revolution and the Negotiation of Rule in Modern Mexico (Durham, 1994)

V. Democracy

November 22--Peter Winn, Weavers of Revolution: The Yarur Workers and Chile's Road to Socialism (New York, 1986)

November 29--Jeffrey Rubin, Decentering the Regime: Ethnicity, Radicalism, and Democracy in Juchitan, Mexico (Durham, 1997)

December 6--Fernando Coronil, The Magical State: Nature, Money, and Modernity in Venezuela (Chicago, 1997)

VI. Conclusions

December 13--Conclusions