Università Roma Tre

This course surveys the main processes and events that have characterized the transformations of Latin America in the Twentieth century, focusing on topics in politics, economy, and social issues. Lectures will explore and analyze the many -ism that characterized the history of Latin America and their new and neo version that are still stimulating historiographical and political debate, such as nationalism, socialism, imperialism, populism, and liberalism.
In the last part of the course, the class will pay particular attention to the enduring legacies and challenges of some specific historical issues, such as race, migration, and the particular entrance of Latin America into global capitalism throughout the 20th century. Special emphasis will be placed on the most recent historiographical stances, providing insights into the transnational and global history approach to the study of the region.

The course is taught in English.

LETTURE OBBLIGATORIE

• Thomas E. Skidmore, Peter H. Smith, James N. Green, Modern Latin America, Eighth Edition, Oxford University Press, New York-Oxford, 2014.
Part II and part III

• Teresa A. Mead, A History of Modern Latin America. 1800 to the Present, Second Edition, WILEY Blackwell, Oxford, 2016 [From chapter 4 “Fragmented nationalism”, till chapter 13].
Ch. 4-13, pp. 84-317.

• Williamson Edwin, The Penguin History of Latin America, Penguin, New York, 2009.
“Nationalism and development: an overview”, pp. 313-34.

• Blanca Sánchez-Alonso, “Labor and Immigration” (Chapter 10, pp. 377-426), in John H. Coatsworth, Roberto Cortés Conde, Victor Bulmer-Thomas (eds), The Cambridge Economic History of Latin America. Volume II - The Long Twentieth Century, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2006.

• Matthew Brown, “The Global History of Latin America”, in Journal of Global History, vol. 10, Issue 3, November 2015, pp. 377-386.

• Selected readings will be assigned in class and provided by the instructor.