Instructors: Jalloh, Narrett, Palmer, and Richmond

Colloquium Description The colloquium will focus on different topics found in the varying experiences of transatlantic migration, colonization, and comparative frontiers. These include: the nature of societies in Africa, the Americas, and Europe that have been engaged in transatlantic contact and interchange; the characteristics of migration, both voluntary and involuntary, from one society to another; the nature of relations between indigenous and settler groups in the post-contact period; the process of colonization involving Europeans and Africans in the Americas; and the development of colonial and national frontiers examined in comparative perspective.

Dr. Palmer
             "Frontiers in South Africa and British North America, 1650-1900"

Goals and objectives The colloquium seeks to analyze and explain, through transatlantic contact, interchange, and development, the emergence of new, altered societies in the post-contact transatlantic world. We will examine not only the post-contact changes wrought on native societies, but also the development of new creolized settler societies that evolved particular characteristics as a result of contact with indigenous communities. In sum, as a result of transatlantic contacts and exchanges, all was changed as new societies buffeted by migration and colonization developed on both sides of the North and South Atlantic. To understand transatlantic history is to appreciate the origins and emergence of modern global societies.

Instructor: Jalloh

Colloquium Description This course examines the involuntary migration of Africans from their homeland to the Atlantic world through the transatlantic slave trade. In addition, it deals with the voluntary return of Diaspora Africans to Africa.

Goals and Objectives This course will explore the cultural background of African Americans, black communities in the Atlantic world, as well as linkages between Africa and the black Diaspora communities.

Instructor: Narrett

Colloquium Description This course will examine how the forces of colonization, migration, and the interaction of diverse peoples shaped the history of North American frontiers from the early sixteenth century through the mid-nineteenth centuries. Our course of study will consider both similarities and differences in the evolution of British, French, and Spanish colonization. We will examine issues of imperial governance as well as the relations between European colonists, native peoples, and African slaves and their descendants.

Goals and Objectives This course will introduce graduate students to major issues in comparative history. We will emphasize the concept of "frontiers in history" as a means of examining the interaction between diverse peoples in particular regions. We will thereby gain insight into the multicultural origins of the United States and the nation’s historic relationship to Canada and Mexico.

• W.J. Eccles, The Canadian Frontier, 1534-1760 (New York, 1969)
• David J. Weber, The Spanish Frontier in North America (New Haven, 1992)

Instructor: Palmer

Colloquium Description This course takes a comparative look at natives and settlers in two regions of British penetration and influence. We will examine the following topics: nature of both indigenous and settler societies; landownership, law, and politics; relations with natives (role of demographics, disease, cultural resistance, and wars); characteristics of emerging economy and polity; and assessment of outcomes of settler-native interactions.

Goals and Objectives This course will explore the concept of Ireland as a "training ground" for British settler attitudes and policies in North America; examine the impact of demographics on settler-native relations (for example, in America settlers soon outnumber natives, but the reverse is true in Ireland); investigate the effect of distance on metropolitan government policies towards the colonies; explain the comparative cultural attitudes by settlers toward the natives; and assess the nature of the emerging polity and economy in both regions.

Instructor: Richmond

Colloquium Description This course focuses upon the Iberian migration to and colonization of what is now the U.S. southwest, Central America and South America. Comparative frontier experiences will also be covered. Principal topics to be discussed are the indigenous civilizations, the 16th-century European invasions, imperial administration and exploitation, comparative labor systems, independence from Europe, early republics and empires, oligarchies and elite, nationalism and reform as well as intellectual currents.

Goals and Objectives Students will gain a broad understanding of the transatlantic effect upon Latin America through the unique efforts of Spain and Portugal. An examination of the historical literature will highlight transatlantic trade patterns dominated at various times by Iberian colonial endeavors as well as the period of prosperity from 1880 to 1929. The flow of ideas and peoples from Europe and Africa to Latin America will also be considered as well as the emergence of global aspects of nationalism in a transatlantic context.

• Mark A. Burkholder and Lyman L. Johnson, Colonial Latin America, Third Ed. (New York, 1998)
• Bradford Burns, 6th ed. Latin America (New York, 1995)

• George Banks, Peru Before Pizarro (Oxford, 1977)
• Inga Clendinnen, Aztecs: An Interpretation (Cambridge, 1991)

• Inga Clendinnen, Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniard in Yucatán, 1517-1570 (Cambridge, 1987)
• John Hemming, Red Gold: The Conquest of the Brazilian Indians (Cambridge, 1978)

• Colin M. MacLachlan, Spain’s Empire in the New World: the Role of Idas in Institutional and Social Change (Berkeley, 1988)
• Stuart B. Schwartz, Sovereignty and Society in Colonial Brazil (Berkeley, 1981)

• Philip D. Curtin, The Atlantic Slave Trade: A Census (Madison, 1969)
• Colin A. Palmer, Slaves of the White God: Blacks in Mexico, 1570-1650 (Cambridge, 1976)

• Timothy E. Anna, Spain and the Loss of America (Lincoln, 1983)
• Mark D. Szuchman and Jonathan C. Brown, eds., Revolution and Restoration: The Rearrangement of Power in Argentina, 1776-1860 (Lincoln, 1994)

• Timothy E. Anna, The Mexican Empire of Iturbide (Lincoln, 1990)
• Stanley Stein, Vassouras, A Brazillian Coffee County, 1850-1890 (Princeton, 1970)

• Mark D. Szuchman, Mobility and Integration in Urban Argentina: Córdoba in the Liberal Era (Austin, 1980)
• Mark Wasserman, Capitalists, Caciques, and Revolution. The Native Elite and Foreign Enterprise in Chihuahua, Mexico, 1842-1911 (Chapel Hill, 1984)

• Douglas W. Richmond, Venustiano Carranza’s Nationalist Struggle, 1893-1920 (Lincoln, 1983)
• Carl Solberg, Immigration and Nationalism: Argentina and Chile, 1890-1914 (Austin, 1970)

• Sheldon R. Liss, Roots of Revolution: Radical Thought in Cuba (Austin, 1989)
• José Mariátegui, Seven Interpretive Essays on the Peruvian Reality (Austin, 1971)

Instructor: Palmer

Colloquium Description This course will be a comparative study of the long-term frontier experience in British North America and in South Africa. We will examine the following topics: nature and volume of settler immigration, impact on and demographics of native societies (disease, warfare, slavery, removal), characteristics of the developing economies, growth of political systems, and evolution of cultural attitudes and policies toward the defeated and dispossessed natives, whether minority (USA) or majority (S. Afr.).

Goals and Objectives This course seeks to understand why North European settlers, intruding into two different world regions, produced settler societies very different from each other. Factors examined include the nature and size of both settler and native societies, characteristics and purpose of the two settler societies, and the influence of climate/geography/distance from each’s European "culture hearth." Why, in short, was settler USA so successful and South Africa so fragile, "unsettled"and-- in a word--unsuccessful from a settler point of view?

• George Frederickson, White Supremacy: A Comparative Study of American and South African History (Oxford, 1981)
• Howard Lamar and Leonard Thompson, eds., The Frontier in History: North America and Southern Africa Compared (New Haven, 1981)

• Richard Bartlett, The New Country: A Social History of the American Frontier, 1776-1890 (Oxford, 1974)
• Gary Nash, Red, White, and Black: The Peoples of Early America, 3rd ed. (Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1992)
• Robert Utley and Wilcomb Washburn, Indian Wars (Boston, 1987)
• Philip Weeks, The American Indian Experience: A Profile, 1524 to the Present (Arlington Heights, IL, 1988)

• Richard Elphick and Hermann Giliomee, eds., The Shaping of South African Society, 1652-1820 (London, 1981)
• Christopher Saunders, The Making of the South African Past: Major Historians on Race and Class (New York, 1988)
• Ken Smith, The Changing Past: Trends in South African Historical Writing (Athens, Ohio, 1989)
• Leonard Thompson, A History of South Africa (New Haven, 1990)