Università Roma Tre

CONTENTS OF THE COURSE:


INTRODUCTION

week 1.
The structure of the course: method, assignments, forms of assessment.
Presentation of materials.

PART I. The TRANSFORMATION of LATIN AMERICA in the FIRST DECADES

week 2.
The nation-state formation after the independence
The new age of imperialism: the beginning of the “American century”
Race and migration in the nation-building process

week 3.
Revolution: the Mexican case at the edge of Latin America
Liberalism and socialism
Populism: the Brazilian and Argentinian cases

week 4.
Economic expansion and industrialization (1880-1930)
Social change and labor movement

PART II. From the SECOND WORLD WAR to the COLD WAR

week 5.
Latin American countries in the Second World War
Revolution: the troublesome experience of Cuba
The communist threat

week 6.
Mid-term examination
Counter revolutionary war
The struggle for sovereignty

PART III. DICTATORSHIPS, DEPENDENCY, and DEMOCRACY

week 7.
Military rule and dictatorships
The haunting presence of US
Politics of repression and human rights

week 8.
Dependency and underdevelopment
Social movements for change
Images of modernity and subalternity

week 9.
The transition to democracy
The political system
Between populism and presidentialism

PART IV. GLOBALIZATION, LABOR and MIGRATION

week 10.
Neoliberalism and the politics of debt
NAFTA and its discontents
Regional Economic Integration

week 11.
The last cycle of globalization
Latin America goes north
The tortilla curtain and the militarized edge of the south

week 12. Short papers due
Labor and migration in inter-American relations
The transnational turn
A global approach to the history of Latin America

week 13. Final examination

TESTI OBBLIGATORI:

I libri sono disponibili presso la biblioteca del Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche Pietro Grilli di Cortona.

• Thomas E. Skidmore, Peter H. Smith, James N. Green, Modern Latin America, Eighth Edition, Oxford University Press, New York-Oxford, 2014.
• Teresa A. Mead, A History of Modern Latin America. 1800 to the Present, Second Edition, WILEY Blackwell, Oxford, 2016 [From chapter 5 till the end, pp. 110-354].
• John H. Coastworth, 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 [pp. 135-166, 377-426].
• Matthew Brown, “The Global History of Latin America”, in Journal of Global History, vol. 10, Issue 3, November 2015, pp. 365-386.

Per la presentazione in classe, gli studenti e le studentesse possono scegliere una tra le seguenti quattro opzioni:

1. Leon Fink (ed), Workers across the Americas. The Transnational Turn in Labor History, Oxford University Press, New York-Oxford, 2011 [chapter 10, 14, and 17; pp. 136-162, 245-266, 329-354].
2. Richard Graham (ed), The Idea of Race in Latin America (1870-1940), University of Texas Press, Austin, 1990 [chapter 4, pp. 71-114], AND, Laura Gotkowitz, Histories of Race and Racism. The Andes and Mesoamerica from Colonial Times to the Present, Duke University Press, Durham and London, 2011 [Part III, pp. 159-217].
3. Scott Mainwaring, Arturo Valenzuela (eds), Politics, Society, and Democracy. Latin America, WestView Press, Boulder Co., 1998 [chapters 5, 6, 7, and 8; pp. 101-202].
4. Timothy J. Dunne, The Militarization of the U.S.-Mexican Border (1978-1992) Low Intensity Conflict Doctrine Comes Home, University of Texas Press, Austin, 1996, [Chapters 1, 4, and 5; pp. 1-34, 103-172].

Ulteriori letture saranno fornite durante il corso, in consonanza con gli interessi di studenti e studentesse.