New Lectures in History (300-0-24)

Topic

Mexico: Five Centuries

Instructors

Paul James Gillingham
847/467-4829
Harris Hall - Room 323

Meeting Info

Harris Hall L28: Tues, Thurs 2:00PM - 3:20PM

Overview of class

Topic: Mexico: Five Centuries

It was 1534, or maybe 1535, when the Spaniards found him among the dead, far to the south in Honduras. He was dark-skinned, pierced and tattooed, and he had led the Maya people of Chetumal to war for two decades. But he was also in his own way white, a fellow Spaniard called Gonzalo Guerrero, and his three children, born of marriage with a Maya woman, might be seen as the first Mexicans. The history of Mexico, understood as the country and people that grew from those first contacts, began with that Spaniard in 1511 when his caravel foundered on Scorpion Reef over sixty miles north of the Yucatán peninsula. This course traces that history from the beginning until the present.

Class Notes

Area of concentration: Americas

Class Attributes

Historical Studies Distro Area