History 680:

Comparative Border Studies

April Hatfield and Anthony Mora

DESCRIPTION:

Comparative Border Studies is an emerging field that questions how groups create, articulate, enforce, and challenge difference. This seminar brings together disparate historiographies to consider a variety of approaches used in understanding those borders. We will examine contact, conflict, and change across various kinds of historical and cultural boundaries, paying particular attention to theoretical and methodological issues for understanding the multiple processes that define, for example, social, racial, political, ethnic, gender, and class borders. Our objectives for this class will center on building critical interpretive skills by examining border studies through a comparative perspective so that students can then apply those skills to their own fields of research.

FORMAT:

This seminar's success depends on careful preparation by each student. We will explore the major themes of each class by discussing the readings as a group. Every participant is expected to attend every seminar meeting, come prepared with questions and comments about the assigned reading for group discussion. Attendance and active participation are expected, with the understanding that missed classes without university-approved excuses will be penalized as outlined below.

REQUIRED READINGS:

Fernand Braudel. The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II, trans. Sian Reynolds. New York: Harper & Row, 1972. (Out of print but widely available online.)

Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Empire. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000.

Mary Pat Brady. Extinct Lands, Temporal Geographies: Chicana Literature and the Urgency of Space. Durham: Duke University Press, 2002.

Anthony W. Marx. Making Race and Nation: A Comparison of the United States, South Africa and Brazil. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Kenneth Pomeranz. The Great Divergence: Europe, China, and the Making of the Modern World Economy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000.

Deborah Bryceson and Ulla Vuorela, eds. The Transnational Family: New European Frontiers and Global Networks. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Peter Sahlins. Boundaries: The Making of France and Spain in the Pyrenees. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989.

Bertrand Van Ruymbeke and Randy J. Sparks, Memory and Identity: The Huguenots in France and the Atlantic Diaspora. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2003.

Bendict Anderson. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. London: Verso, 1991.

Matt García. A World of Its Own: Race, Labor and Citrus in the Making of Greater Los Angeles, 1900-1970. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001.

Ann Laura Stoler. Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.

Lynette Russell. Colonial Frontiers: Indigenous European Encounters in Settler Societies. New York: Palgrave, 2001.

"Further Reading" listed in the syllabus is for background and reference and is not required.

REQUIREMENTS AND ATTENDANCE POLICY:

Students should expect reading and writing assignments appropriate for a graduate level history class. The final grade will be computed based on the assignments described below: Attendance and participation (worth 20% of final grade); three written response papers (4-5 pages) and discussion leadership (worth 10% each); a midterm project proposal (worth 10%), a final paper (worth 30%), and a formal presentation based on that paper (worth 10%).

PAPERS:

As indicated above, each student will lead class discussion three times during the semester and submit short papers over that week's reading. These 5-page papers should focus on your own reaction to the reading. As these papers are brief, focus on the major theme of the readings for the week. No one will be able to cover everything; however, do use the papers to engage with the author's main thesis. The goal for these papers is to demonstrate general knowledge about the reading and to sharpen your own thoughts for leading discussion.

The final project will be a 15-20 page research paper in which each student applies some aspect of comparative borders methodology as explored in class readings and discussion to his or her own thesis or dissertation topic. Students who are uncertain about their thesis or dissertation topic should write a paper that they believe will fit with their future research plans. The mid-term proposal should outline the major argument and the border studies methodology you will use in writing this paper and should include a bibliography of primary and secondary sources. This proposal is due October 18. The final paper will bring this project to completion by December 19.

Late papers incur severe grade penalties. A paper will receive an automatic grade reduction of one letter grade if it is not turned in at the start of class time on the date due. Each additional calendar day that passes will result in an additional grade reduction of one letter grade (the "late clock" includes days we do not meet for class sessions). For example, if a student turns in a paper on Thursday that was originally due on Tuesday, their "A" would turn into a "C." Some latitude can be granted to students with approved excuses provided they contact the professor before the due date. Computer/printer problems are not legitimate excuses. Be sure to back up your work often and save in multiple locations. This late penalty includes both the five-page papers and the final paper. There is no possibility of turning in the final paper late without a university-
approved excuse.

STUDENT PRESENTATIONS:

The final two weeks of the course will be devoted to student presentations. These presentations will be 20 minutes each (the length of most conference papers) and should present the results and significance of your research in a way that will be compelling to listeners. This means that you must prepare separately for the presentation with your audience in mind. Whether you decide to use an outline or a written text, you should practice and time your presentation. If you choose to use a written text, do not simply read from your research paper. Rewrite for a listening audience. A question and answer period following the presentations should provide feedback for improving the final paper.

AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT (ADA):

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is a federal anti-discrimination statute that provides comprehensive civil rights protection for persons with disabilities. Among other things, this legislation requires that all students with disabilities be guaranteed a learning environment that provides for reasonable accommodation of their disabilities. If you believe you have a disability requiring accommodation, please contact the Department of Student Life, Service for Students with Disabilities in 116B, Cain Hall, or call 979-845-
1637. It is the student's responsibility to contact the Department of Student Life and the professor.

ACADEMIC DISHONESTY/PLAGIARISM/PROFESSIONALISM IN THE CLASSROOM:

Texas A&M operates on an Honor System that presumes the integrity of its students. Students violate the honors policy and betray the Aggie tradition by plagiarizing or participating in other forms of academic dishonesty. Plagiarism includes failing to credit sources used in your work and/or attempting to receive credit for work performed in part or in whole by another person. The Aggie Honor web site extensively outlines the meaning of "Academic Dishonesty and Plagiarism:"

This information is available online at http://www.tamu.edu/aggiehonor. Plagiarism is a serious offense and will result in receiving an "F" on the assignment and failing this course.

SCHEDULE:

WEEK ONE: Historiography

READING:

Fernand Braudel. The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II, trans. Sian Reynolds. New York: Harper & Row, 1972.

Further Reading:

Jeremy Adelman and Stephen Aron, "From Borderlands to Borders: Empires, Nation-States, and the Peoples in Between in North American History," American Historical Review 104 (1999), 814-
841 and "Responses" 1221-1239.

John Francis Bannon. "Black Robe Frontiersman: Pedro Mendez, S.J.,"The Hispanic American Historical Review, 27 (1947), pp. 61-
86.

Herbert Bolton. "The Mission as a Frontier Institution in the Spanish-
American Colonies," American Historical Review 23 (1917), pp. 42-61.

Albert Camarillo. Chicanos in a Changing Society: From Mexican Pueblos to American Barrios in Santa Barbara and Southern California, 1848-1930. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1984.

Jose Cañizares-Esguerra. How to Write the History of the New World: Histories, Epistemologies, and Identities in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001.

J. And J. Comaroff. Ethnography and the Historical Imagination. Boulder: Westview Press, 1992.

Alistair Hennessy. The Frontier in Latin American History. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1978.

Robert H. Jackson, ed. New Views of Borderlands History. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1998.

William McNeill. Europe's Steppe Frontier, 1500-1800. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1964.

Michel-Rolph Trouillot. Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History. Boston: Beacon, 1997.

Frederick Jackson Turner. "The Frontier in American History," (1893) in David Weber and Jane Raush, eds., Where Cultures Meet: Frontiers in Latin American History. Wilmington, Del., SR Books, 1994.

Immanuel Wallerstein. The Modern World-System 3 vols. New York: Academic Press, 1974-1988.

David Weber, ed. Foreigners in Their Native Land: Historical Roots of the Mexican Americans. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1973.

--------. The Mexican Frontier, 1821-1846: The American Southwest Under Mexico. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1982.

--------, ed. Sketches and Poems, Written in the Western Country, Additional Stories. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1967.

--------. The Spanish Frontier in North America. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992.

--------, "Turner, the Boltonians, and the Borderlands," American Historical Review 91 (1986), pp. 66-81.

White, Richard. The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Eric R. Wolf. Europe and the People without History. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982.

WEEK TWO: Theory

READING:

Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Empire. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000.

Further Reading:

David Abulafia and Nora Berend, eds. Medieval Frontiers: Concepts and Practices. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2002.

James Anderson, Liam O'Dowd, and Thomas M. Wilson, eds. Culture and Cooperation in Europe's Borderlands. NY: Rodopi, 2003.

Celia Applegate, Kären Wigen, Michael O'Brien, and Vicente L. Rafael, "AHR Forum: Bringing Regionalism Back to History," American Historical Review 104 (1999), 1156-1220.

Annie E. Coombes. Reinventing Africa: Museums, Material Culture and Popular Imagination in Late Victorian and Edwardian England. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994.

Mary Douglass, Purity and Danger: An Analysis of the Concepts of Pollution and Taboo. London: Ark, 1966.

Nancy Duncan, ed. Body Space. New York: Routledge, 1996.

George M. Fredrickson, The Comparative Imagination: On the History of Race, Nationalism, and Social Movements. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.

Martin Lewis and Kären E. Wigen, The Myth of Continents: A Critique of Metageography. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.

V. Y. Mudimbe, ed. Nations, Identities, Cultures. Durham: Duke University Press, 1995.

Gyan Prakash, ed. After Colonialism: Imperial Histories and Postcolonial Displacements. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995.

Edward Said. Orientalism. New York: Pantheon Books, 1978.

José Saldvar, Border Matters: Remapping American Cultural Studies. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.

Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Peasants and Capital: Dominica in the World Economy. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1988.

Victor Turner, The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure. Chicago: Aldine, 1969.

Rob Wilson, & Wimal Dissanayake, eds. Global Local: Cultural Production & the Transnational Imaginary. Durham: Duke University Press, 1996.

WEEK THREE: Physical Borders

READING:

Mary Pat Brady. Extinct Lands, Temporal Geographies: Chicana Literature and the Urgency of Space. Durham: Duke University Press, 2002.

Further Reading:

Edward L. Ayers, et.al., eds. All Over the Map: Rethinking American Regions. Baltimore: The Johns Hoplins University Press, 1996.

Krista Comer. Landscapes of the New West: Gender and Geography in Contemporary Women's Writing. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999.

Timothy Brook. Geographical Sources of Ming-Ch'ing History. Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, 1988.

Paul Cohen. History in Three Keys: The Boxers as Event, Experience, and Myth. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.

Alfred Crosby. Germs, Seeds, and Animals: Studies in Ecological History. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1994.

Melvin Dixon. Ride Out the Wilderness: Geography and Identity in Afro-
American Literature. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987.

Thomas R. Dunlap. Nature and the English Diaspora: Environment and History in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Matthew H. Edney. Mapping an Empire: The Geographical Construction of British India, 1765-1843. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997.

Robert Harms. Games Against Nature: An Eco-Cultural History of the Nunu of Equatorial Africa. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

David H. Kaplan and Jouni Hakli. Boundaries and Place: European Borderlands in Geographical Context. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002.

Beth LaDow. The Medicine Line: The Life and Death of a North American Borderland. New York: Routledge, 2001.

G. Malcolm Lewis, ed. Cartographic Encounters: Perspectives on Native American Mapmaking and Map Use. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.

Peter Schottler. "The Rhine as an Object of Historical Controversy in the Inter-war Years: Towards a History of Frontier Mentalities." Trans. Chris Turner. History Workshop Journal 39 (1995), 1-21.

James Webb. Desert Frontier: Ecological and Economic Change along the Western Sahel, 1600-1850. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995.

WEEK FOUR: Race and Ethnicity

READING:

Anthony W. Marx. Making Race and Nation: A Comparison of the United States, South Africa and Brazil. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Further Reading:

Tomás Almaguer. Racial Fault Lines: The Historical Origins of White Supremacy in California. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.

Daniel R. Brower and Edward J. Lazzerini. Russia's Orient: Imperial Borderlands and People, 1700-1917. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997.

Joyce E. Chaplin. Subject Matter: Technology, the Body, and Science on the Anglo-American Frontier, 1500-1676. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003.

Mark Elliott. The Manchu Way: the Eight Banners and Ethnic Identity in Late Imperial China. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001.

Neil Foley. The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.

Paul Gilroy. Against Race: Imagining Political Culture beyond the Color Line. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001.

--------. The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995.

David Gutiérrez,. Walls and Mirrors: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the Politics of Ethnicity. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1995.

Alexandra Harmon. Indians in the Making: Ethnic Relations and Indian Identities around Puget Sound. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.

Lane Ryo Hirabayashi, Akemi Kikumura-Yano, and James A. Hirabayashi, eds. New Worlds, New Lives: Globalization and People of Japanese Descent in the Americas and from Latin America in Japan. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002.

Emily Honig. Creating Chinese Ethnicity: Subei People in Shanghai, 1850-1980. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992.

Matthew Jacobson. Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998.

Madulika Khandelwal. Becoming American, Being Indian: An Immigrant Community in New York City. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002.

Ullrich Kockel. Borderline Cases: Ethnic Frontiers of European Integration. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1999.

Karen Leonard. Making Ethnic Choices: California's Punjabi Mexican Americans. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992.

Jeffrey Lesser. Negotiating National Identity: Immigrants, Minorities, and the Struggle for Ethnicity in Brazil. Durham: Duke University Press.

Bernard Lewis. Race and Slavery in the Middle East. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.

Eric Lott. Love & Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

Lisa Lowe. Immigrant Acts. Durham: Duke University Press, 1996.

Charles Montgomery. Spanish Redemption: Heritage, Power and Loss on New Mexico's Upper Rio Grande. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2002.

Suzanne Oboler. Ethnic Labels, Latino Lives: Identity and the Politics of (Re)Presentation in the United States. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 1995.

Jan Nederveen Pieterse. White on Black: Images of Africa and Blacks in Western Popular Culture. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992.

Stephen Pitti. The Devil in Silicon Valley: Northern California, Race, and Mexican Americans. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003.

Walter Pohl and Helmut Reimitz, eds. Strategies of Distinction: The Construction of Ethnic Communities, 300-800. Leyden: E.J. Brill, 1998.

Daniel Power and Naomi Standen, eds. Frontiers in Question: Eurasian Borderlands, 700-1700. New York: St. Martin's, 1999.

David Roediger. The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class. New York: Verso, 1991.

--------. Towards the Abolition of Whiteness: Essays on Race, Politics, and Working Class History. New York: Verso, 1994.

William A. Shack and Elliot P. Skinner, eds. Strangers in African Societies. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979.

Thomas E. Skidmore, Black into White: Race and Nationality in Brazilian Thought. New York: Oxford University Press, 1974.

Nayan Shah. Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco's Chinatown. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.

Mary Waters. Ethnic Options: Choosing Identities in America. Berkley: University of California Press, 1990.

The William and Mary Quarterly 3rd ser. 54:1 (1997) special issue: "Constructing Race: Differentiating Peoples in the Early Modern World."

Heynry Yu. Thinking Orientals: Migration, Contact, and Exoticism in Modern America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

WEEK FIVE: Economy & Trade

READING:

Kenneth Pomeranz. The Great Divergence: Europe, China, and the Making of the Modern World Economy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000.

Further Reading:

Timothy Brook. The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.

Olivia Remie Constable. Trade and Traders in Muslim Spain: The Commerical Realignment of the Iberian Peninsula, 900-1500. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Philip D. Curtin. Cross-Cultural Trade in World History. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984.

Arnoldo DeLeón, and Kenneth L. Stewart. Tejanos and the Numbers Game: A Socio-Historical Interpretation from the Federal Censuses, 1850-1900. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1989.

--------. Not Room Enough: Mexicans, Anglos, and Socioeconomic Change in Texas, 1850-1900. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1993.

Ross Hassig. Trade Tribute and Transportation: The Sixteenth-Century Political Economy of the Valley of Mexico. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1985.

Peter J. Hugill. World Trade since 1431: Geography, Technology, and Capitalism. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993.

Peggy K. Liss. Atlantic Empires: The Network of Trade and Revolution, 1713-1826. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983.

Peggy K. Liss and Franklin W. Knight. Atlantic Port Cities: Economy, Culture, and Society in the Atlantic World, 1650-1850. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991.

Juan Mora-Torres. The Making of the Mexican Border: The State, Capitalism, and Society in Nuevo Leon, 1848-1910. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001.

Daniel Usner, Jr. Indians, Settlers, & Slaves in a Frontier Exchange Economy: The Lower Mississippi Valley Before 1783. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992.

Richard Von Glahn. Fountain of Fortune: Money and Monetary Policy in China, 1000-1700. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.

WEEK SIX: Gender

READING:

Deborah Bryceson and Ulla Vuorela, eds. The Transnational Family: New European Frontiers and Global Networks. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Further Reading:

Jean Allman, Susan Geiger, and Nakanyike Musisi, eds. Women in African Colonial Histories. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002.

Gabriela Arredondo, et al, eds. Chicana Feminisms: A Critical Reader. Durham: Duke University Press, 2003.

Gail Bederman. Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race, 1880-1917. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.

Kathleen Brown, Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, & Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.

Judith Butler. Bodies that Matter: on the Discursive Limits of Sex. New York: Routledge, 1993.

--------. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. New York: Routledge, 1990.

Adelaida Castillo. Between Borders: Essays on Mexicana/Chicana History. Encino, CA: Floricanto Press, 1990.

Elizabeth Dore and Maxine Molyneux, eds. Hidden Histories of Gender and the State in Latin America. Durham: Duke University Press, 2000.

Nancy Duncan, ed. Body Space. New York: Routledge, 1996.

Ann Farnsworth-Alvear. Dulcinea in the Factory: Myth, Morals, Men, and Women in Colombia's Industrial Experiment, 1905-1960. Durham: Duke University Press, 2000.

Mike Featherstone, et al. The Body: Social Process and Cultural Theory. London: Sage Publications, 1991.

John D. French and Daniel James, eds. The Gendered Worlds of Latin American Women Workers: From Household and Factory to the Union Hall and Ballot Box. Durham: Duke University Press, 1997.

M. Goheen, Men Own the Fields, Women Own the Crops: Gender and Power in the Cameroon Grassfields. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996.

Deena J. González. Refusing the Favor: Spanish Mexican Women of Santa Fé, 1820-1880. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Donna Haraway. Primate Visions: Gender, Race and Nature in the World of Modern Science. New York: Routledge, 1989.

-------------. Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature. New York: Routledge, 1991.

Kristin L. Hoganson. Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-American and Philippine American Wars. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.

Emily Honig, Sisters and Strangers: Women in the Shanghai Cotton Mills. Stanford University Press, 1986.

Elizabeth Quay Hutchison. Labors Apprpriate to their Sex: Gender, Labor, and Politics in Urban Chile, 1900-1930. Durham: Duke University Press, 2001.

Elizabeth Jameson and Susan Armitage. Writing the Range: Race Class and Culture in the Women's West. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997.

Dorothy Ko. Teachers of the Inner Chambers. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994.
Elizabeth Lunbeck. The Psychiatric Persuasion: Knowledge, Gender, and Power in Modern America. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994.

Carol MacCormack, "Nature, Culture and Gender: A Critique" in MacCormack and Marilyn Strathern, eds. Nature, Culture, and Gender. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980.

Susan Mann. Precious Records: Women in China's Long Eighteenth Century. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998.

Peggy Pascoe. Relations of Rescue: The Search for Female Moral Authority in the American West, 1874-1939. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.

Vicki Ruiz. From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in the Twentith Century United States New York: Oxford Univeristy Press, 1998.

Vicki Ruiz and Ellen Carol DuBois. Unequal Sisters: A Multiculutral Reader in U.S. Women's History. New York: Routledge, 1990.

Vicki Ruiz, et. al., eds. Women on the U.S. Mexico Border: Responses to Change. Boston: Allen & Unwin, 1987.

Joan Scott. Feminists Theorize the Political. New York: Routledge, 1992.

--------. Gender and the Politics of History. New York: Columbia University Press, 1988.

Heidi Tinsman. Partners in Conflict: The Politics of Gender, Sexuality, and Labor in the Chilean Agrarian Reform, 1950-1973. Durham: Duke University Press, 2002.

WEEK SEVEN: Political Boundaries

READING:

Peter Sahlins. Boundaries: The Making of France and Spain in the Pyrenees. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989.

Further Reading:

John Charles Chasteen, Heroes on Horseback: A Life and Times of the Last Gaucho Caudillos. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1995.

Joseph Esherick. The Origins of the Boxer Uprising. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.

Bruce W. Farcau. The Ten Cents War: Chile, Peru, and Bolivia in the War of the Pacific, 1879- 1884. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2000.

Stephen Harp. Learning to be Loyal: Primary Schooling as Nation Building in Alsace and Lorraine, 1850-1940. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1998.

Andrew C. Hess. The Forgotten Frontier: A History of the Sixteenth-
Century Ibero-African Frontier. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978.

Peter J. Hugill. Global Communication since 1844: Geopolitics and Technology. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.

Samuel P. Huntington. The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996.

Igor Kopytoff. The African Frontier: The Reproduction of Traditional African Societies. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987.

Oscar J. Martínez, ed. Across Boundaries: Transborder Interaction in Comparative Perspective. El Paso: Texas Western Press, 1986.

Leslie Page Moch. Moving Europeans: Migration in Western Europe since 1650. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003.

María E. Montoya. Translating Property: The Maxwell Land Grant and the Conflict over Land in the American West, 1840-1900. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.

Jonathan Spence and John Wills. From Ming to Ch'ing: Conquest, Region, and Continuity in Seventeenth-century China. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979.

Leroy Vail. The Creation of Tribalism in Southern Africa. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989.

Jeffrey Wasserstrom. Student Protests in Twentieth-Century China: The View from Shanghai. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1991.

Thomas L. Whigham. The Paraguayan War: Causes and Early Conduct. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002.

WEEK EIGHT: Religion

READING:

Bertrand Van Ruymbeke and Randy J. Sparks, Memory and Identity: The Huguenots in France and the Atlantic Diaspora. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2003.

Further Reading:

Nora Berend, "Boundaries" in At the Gate of Christendom: Jews, Muslims and Pagans in Medieval Hungary. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

D. A. Brading, Mexican Phoenix: Our Lady of Guadalupe, Image and Tradition across Five Centuries. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Peter Brown. The Body and Society: Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity. New York: Columbia University Press, 1988.

-----. The Rise of Western Christendom. Oxford: Blackwell, 1996.

John B. Boles, ed., Masters and Slaves in the House of the Lord: Race and Religion in the American South, 1740-1870. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1988.

Jay Dolan and Gilberto M. Hinojosa, Mexican Americans and the Catholic Church, 1900-1965. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1994.

Claudine Fabre-Vassas. The Singular Beast: Jews, Christians, and the Pig. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.

Carlo Ginzburg. The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Translated by John and Anne Tedeschi. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992.

Allan Greer and Jodi Blinkoff. Colonial Saints: Discovering the Holy in the Americas, 1500-1800. New York: Routledge, 2003.

Auke Jelsma. Frontiers of the Reformation: Dissidence and Orthodoxy in 16th-century Europe. Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 1998.

Ramsey MacMullen. Christianizing the Roman Empire, A.D. 100-400. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984.

-----. Christianity and Paganism in the Fourth to Eighth Centuries. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997.

John T. McGreevy, Parish Boundaries: The Catholic Encounter with Race in the Twentieth-Century Urban North. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.

Kenneth Mills, Idolatry and its Enemies: Colonial Andean Religion and Extirpation, 1640-1750. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997.

Ted Ownby. Subduing Satan: Religion, Recreation, and Manhood in Rural South, 1865-1920. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990.

Sabine MacCormack. Religion in the Andes: Vision and Imagination in Early Colonial Peru. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1991.

Timothy Matovina. Tejano Religion and Ethnicity: San Antonio, 1821-
1860. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995.

David Nirenberg. Communities of Violence: Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996.

Gerald Strauss. Luther's House of Learning: Indoctrination of the Young in the German Reformation. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978.

Susan Yohn.. A Contest of Faiths: Missionary Women and Pluralism in the American Southwest. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995.

WEEK NINE: Nation and Empire

READING:

Bendict Anderson. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. London: Verso, 1991.

Further Reading:

Michael Adas. Machines as the Measure of Men: Science, Technology, and Ideologies of Western Dominance. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1989.

Ida Altman. Emigrants and Society: Extremadura and Spanish America in the Sixteenth Century. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989.

Sherman Cochran. Encountering Chinese Networks: Western, Japanese, and Chinese Corporations in China, 1880-1937. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.

Linda Colley. Captives. New York: Pantheon, 2003.

Frederick Cooper and Ann Laura Stoler, eds. Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.

Christine Daniels and Michael Kennedy, eds. Negotiated Empires: Centers and Peripheries in the New World, 1500-1820. New York: Routledge, 2002.

Patrick Geary. The Myth of Nations: The Medieval Origins of Europe. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002

-----. Before France and Germany: The Creation and Transformation of the Merovingian World. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.

Walter Goffart. Barbarians and Romans, A.D. 418-584: The Techniques of Accommodation. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980.

Catherine Hall. Civilising Subjects: Colony and Metropole in the English Imagination, 1830-1867. London: Polity, 2002.

Michael Hechtor. Containing Nationalism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Jeffrey Herbst. States and Power in Africa. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000.

Peter H. Hoffenberg. An Empire on Display: English, Indian, and Australian Exhibitions from the Crystal Palace to the Great War. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.

Amy Kaplan. The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U.S. Culture. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003.

Amy Kaplan and Donald E. Pease. Cultures of United States Imperialism. Durham: Duke University Press, 1993.

Mahmood Mamdani. Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996.

Melani McAlister. Epic Encounters; Culture, Media, and U.S. Interests in the Middle East, 1945-2000. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.

S. C. M. Paine. Imperial Rivals: China, Russia and Their Disputed Frontier. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1996.

Walter Pohl, ed. Kingdoms of the Empire: The Integration of Barbarians in Late Antiquity. Leyden: E.J. Brill, 1997.

Matthew Romaniello. Absolutism and Empire: Governance along the Early Modern Frontier. Ph.D. diss: The Ohio State University, 2003.

Anthony Pagden. Lords of All the World: Ideologies of Empire in Spain, Britain, and Frace, c. 1500-c. 1800. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995.

Mary Louise Pratt. Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation. New York: Routledge, 1992.

Shelley Streeby. American Sensations: Class, Empire, and the Production of Popular Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.

Ssu-yu Teng, et. al. China's Response to the West. New York: Atheneum, 1963.

Werwig Wolfram. The Roman Empire and its Germanic Peoples. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1997.

Lora Wildenthal. German Women for Empire, 1884-1945. Durham: Duke University Press, 2002.

Chris Wilson. The Myth of Santa Fe: Creating a Modern Regional Tradition. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1997.

Robert Young. Colonial Desire: Hybridity in Theory, Culture and Race. New York: Routledge, 1995.

WEEK TEN: Class

READING:

Matt García. A World of Its Own: Race, Labor and Citrus in the Making of Greater Los Angeles, 1900-1970. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001.

Further Reading:

Pierre Bordieu. Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste trans. Richard Nice. London: Routledge, 1984

Sarah Deutsch. No Separate Refuge: Culture, Class and Gender on an Anglo-Hispanic Frontier in the American Southwest 1880-1940. New York: Oxford Press, 1987.

Andrew J. Kirkendall. Class Mates: Male Student Culture and the Making of a Political Class in Nineteenth-Century Brazil. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002.

Edmund Morgan. American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia. New York: W. W. Norton, 1975.

Anthony S. Parent, Jr. Foul Means: The Formation of a Slave Society in Virginia, 1660-1740. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003.

Elizabeth J. Perry. Shanghai on Strike: The Politics of Chinese Labor. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993.

Dorothy Solinger. Contesting Citizenship in Urban China: Peasant Migrants, the State, and the Logic of the Market. University of California Press, 1996.

WEEK ELEVEN: Sexuality

READING:

Ann Laura Stoler. Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.

Further Reading:

Robert Aldrich. Colonialism and Homosexuality. New York: Routledge, 2003.

Dennis Altman. Global Sex. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001.

Laura Briggs. Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science, and U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.

George Chauncey. Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940. New York: Basic Books, 1995.

Eileen Suárez Findlay. Imposing Decency: The Politics of Sexuality and Race in Puerto Rico, 1870-1920. Durham: Duke University Press, 1999.

James Naylor Green. Beyond Carnival: Male Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century Brazil. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.

Ramón Gutiérrez. When Jesus Came the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1991.

Gail Hershatter Dangerous Pleasures. Prostitution and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Shanghai. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.

Martha Hodes, ed. Sex, Love, Race: Crossing Boundaries in North American History. New York: New York University Press, 1999.

Albert Hurtado. Intimate Frontiers: Sex, Gender and Culture in Old California. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1999.

Kevin Mumford. Interzones: Black/White Sex Districts in Chicago and New York in the Early Twentieth Century. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.

Anne McClintock. Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest. New York: Routledge, 1995.

Ann Marie Plane. Colonial Intimacies: Indian Marriage in Early New England. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000.

Juana Rodríguez. Queer Latinidad: Identity Practices, Discursive Spaces. New York: New York University Press, 2003.

Neil Diamond. Revolutionizing the Family: Politics, Love, and Divorce, in Urban and Rural China 1949-1968. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.

WEEK TWELVE: Frontiers

READING:

Lynette Russell. Colonial Frontiers: Indigenous European Encounters in Settler Societies. New York: Palgrave, 2001.

Further Reading:

Armando Alonzo. Tejano Legacy: Rancheros and Settlers in South Texas, 1734-1900. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1998.

Stephen Aron. How the West was Lost: The Transformation of Kentucky from Daniel Boone to Henry Clay. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.

James Axtell. Natives and Newcomers: the Cultural Origins of North America. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.

James F. Brooks. Captives & Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002.

K. N. Chadhuri. Asia before Europe: Economy and Civilisation of the Indian Ocean from the Rise of Islam to 1750. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Linda Colley. The Significance of the Frontier in British History. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995.

Gerard Delanty, "The Frontier and Identities of Exclusion in European in European History" History of European Ideas. 22 (1996), 93-103.

Stephen L. Dyson. The Creation of the Roman Frontier. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985.

Norman Etherington. The Great Treks: The Transformation of Southern Africa, 1815-1854. New York: Longman, 2001.

Richard Hellie, ed., The Frontier in Russian History. Los Angeles: Charles Schlacks, 1992.

Michael Khodarkovsky. Russia's Steppe Frontier: The Making of a Colonal Empire, 1500-1800. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002.

Karen Ordahl Kupperman. Indians and English: Facing Off in Early America. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000.

Howard Lamar and Leonard Thompson, eds. The Frontier in History: North America and Southern Africa Compared. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981.

Brian Dolan. Exploring European Frontiers: British Travelers in the Age of Enlightenment. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000.

Douglas Monroy. Thrown Among Strangers: The Making of Mexican Culture in Frontier California. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990.

V. V. Nalimov, Realms of the Unconscious: The Enchanted Frontier. Philadelphia: ISI Press, 1982.

Gregory H. Nobles. American Frontiers: Culutral Encounters and Continental Conquest. New York: Hill and Wang, 1997.

Genaro Padilla. My History, Not Yours: The Formation of Mexican American Autobiography. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993.

Walter Pohl, Ian Wood and Helmut Reimitz, eds., The Transformation of Frontiers from Late Antiquity to the Carolingians. Leiden: Brill, 2000.

George Sánchez. Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Frederic Wakeman. The Great Enterprise: The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth Century China. University of California Press, 1985.

WEEK THIRTEEN: Student Presentations

WEEK FOURTEEN: Student Presentations