Università Roma Tre

The course is divided into two parts. In the first part, first of all, we briefly recall the events that characterize the history of contemporary Latin America, then we reconstruct the genesis and evolution of the perspectives of analysis relating to transatlantic history and global history, to show the most significant research paths that distinguish them and we reflect on the ambivalences that run through them. In the second part we analyse the most significant processes that characterise the contemporary history of Latin America: political transitions; migration dynamics; cultural exchanges; regional integration processes; transnational economic and social networks.

Mandatory reading:

– Laura Di Fiore-Marco Meriggi, World History. Le nuove rotte della storia, Bari-Roma, Laterza, 2011.

Choose two books from the following list:

- Tiziana Bertaccini, Le Americhe Latine nel Ventesimo secolo, Milano, Feltrinelli, 2014;
- Gabriella Chiaramonti (a cura di), Tra innovazione e continuità. L’ America Latina nel nuovo millennio,
Padova, CLEUP, 2009;
- Marco Di Ruzza, L’America Latina sulla scena globale, Soveria Mannelli (CZ), Rubettino, 2011
- Gian Luca Giardini, L’ America Latina nel XXI secolo, Roma, Carocci, 2009;
- Raffaele Nocera-Angelo Trento, America Latina, un secolo di storia, Roma, Carocci, 2013;
- Loris Zanatta, Storia dell’America Latina contemporanea, Bari, Laterza, 2010.