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Summer 2022 - CHIC 141A  Proressor Oscar Canedo Guidelines for Book Review Assignment For this report, you are to read a book about a topic related to the Chicano/ Hispanic scope of this course

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Summer 2022 - CHIC 141A 

Proressor Oscar Canedo

Guidelines for Book Review Assignment

For this report, you are to read a book about a topic related to the Chicano/ Hispanic scope of this course. You are free to choose from one of a multitude of choices. Your choices are, but not limited to: Aztecs, Maya, Olmecs, Teotihuacan,

Spanish exploration and colonization, Mexican

Independence, California Mission system, Mexican California, Texas Revolution, US-Mexico War, etc.

As you can see, your choices are extensive, so please choose one of these or other topics, or if you would like to review a book about a topic indirectly related to this course, please consult with me about your selection. If you decide to focus ona US history topic, make sure your book has coverage of Chicano-based issues. Some suggestions are provided on the lower portion of these guidelines. And now here is a nuts-and-bolts video about the will be assessed. The report is to be 5-7 pages in length. Please do not use any of the course textbooks for this assignment. Please include a works cited page, but you can also use a title page if you wish. The title page is optional, but keep in mind that the title page and works cited pages do not count toward total page length of your review.

You are also encouraged to follow the MLA or

Chicago formats to develop this report. Please double-space your review. This report will count as

20% toward your final grade. And in your works

cited page, please list the title that you have chosen

in the following manner:

Townsend, Richard (1992) The Aztecs. New York:

Thames and Hudson.

In terms of the content of the report, | am looking for two main points of discussion. First, you should devote the first half of the report to a summary of the main points that the author is trying to convey to the reader. However, | request that you do not devote your entire review to a summary of your

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e Miguel Leon Portilla, The Broken Spears

e Richard Townshend, The Aztecs

e Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, Chronicle of the

Narvaez Expedition

e Bernal Diaz, The Conquest of New Spain

e Christopher Columbus, The Four Voyages

e Bartolome de las Casas, A Short Account of

the Destruction of the Indies

e John Eisenhower, So Far From God: The US-

Mexico War

e Michael Wood, Conquistadors

e Michael D. Coe, The Maya

e Michael D. Coe: Mexico: From the Olmecs to

the Aztecs

e David Weber, The Spanish Frontier in North

America
e Colin MacLachlan and Jaime Rodriguez, The

Forging of the Cosmic Race: A

Reinterpretation of Colonial Mexico

 

e Richard Griswold del Castillo, The Treaty of

Guadalupe Hidalgo

 

e David Weber, Foreigners in Their Native Land

 

e Sam Haynes, James K. Polk and the

Expansionist Impulse

 

e Nigel Davies, The Ancient Kingdoms of

Mexico

 

e William Earl Weeks, Building the Continental

Empire: American Expansion from the

Revolution to the Civil War

 

e Mark Burkholder and Lyman Johnson,

Colonial Latin America

 

e Richard Bruce Winders, Crisis in the

Southwest: The United States, Mexico, and

the Struggle over Texas

e David Carrasco and Scott Sessions, Daily Life