History 3390 Assignments
For the Week of August 22nd: Please read pp. 11-18 in The Atlantic World in the Age of Empire . We will discuss this reading in class on August 24th.
For the Week of August 29th: Read pp. 18-29 in The Atlantic World in the Age of Empire (John Thorton, "The Birth of An Atlantic World"). Quiz over this material will be on Thursday, August. 31st!
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For the week of September 5th: Please read pp. 29-53 in The Atlantic World in the Age of Empire and pp. 1-37 in Christopher Columbus and the Enterprise of the Indies. We will discuss these readings in class on Thursday, September 7th!
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For the weeks of September 12th and 19th: Please read all of the following in Christopher Columbus....: In Part 1.: Documents 3, 5, 7 and 9. In Part 2: Documents 10,11,12, 17, 18 and 22. All of part 3. Part 4: documents 31 and 33. NOTE: FOR SOME OF YOU, IT MAY BE EASIER TO READ THE ENTIRE BOOK. I FIND THAT THERE IS MORE OVERLAP IN THESE DOCUMENTS THAN IS NECESSARY SO I AM ASSIGNING THE DOCUMENTS THAT GET TO THE HEART OF THE MATTER! YOU WILL HAVE A QUIZ OVER ALL THE READINGS FROM THIS BOOK ON THURSDAY, SEPT. 21ST!!
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For the week of Oct. 3rd: Please read pp. 88-112 in The Atlantic World in the Age of Empire ("Franciscan Evangelization in New Mexico"). We will discuss this reading in class on Thursday, Oct. 5th. ALSO: begin reading The Jesuit Relations. In that book you will be reading: pp 1-32;35-36;41-46;50-58;61-69;89-90;94-106;119-123; and 155-171. You will have a quiz over the readings in this book on Thursday, Oct. 12th.
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For the week of Oct. 17th: Please read pp. 122-132 in The Atlantic World in the Age of Empire ("The Survival of African Religions in the Americas"). We will discuss this reading in class on Thursday, Oct. 19th!
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Reminder: We will not have class on Thursday, Oct. 26h!!
For the week of Oct. 31: Please read pp. 153-165 in The Atlantic World in the Age of Empire("The Paradox of American Development"). We will discuss this in class on Thursday, Nov. 2nd.
ALSO: Begin reading Slave Revolution in the Caribbean, 1789-1804. In this book, you will be reading pp.1-36;42-44;55-60;77-81;141-146;150-161;178-186.
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For the week of Nov. 7th: Complete the reading listed above in Slave Revolution in the Caribbean. The quiz over the reading will be on Thursday, Nov. 9th!!!
