Università Roma Tre

The attention will focus on the issues and problems that mark the historical path of Latin America from its discovery to the new millennium. The topics will be the following:

1st week:
1. Introduction to the discipline and presentation of the program.
2. Reading methods and techniques. Assessment method.
3. The American space. The problems of periodization

2nd week:
4. Indigenous Americas. Europe, Spain and Portugal at the turn of the 15th century.
5. Discovery and conquest.
6. The Spanish colonies: administrative structures

III.a Week:
7. The Spanish colonies: religious structures. The evangelization
8. The Spanish colonies: economic and social structures.
9. The Portuguese colonization

IV.a Week:
10. The European Eighteenth Century and Bourbon reformism
11. The independence process. The Brazilian exception
12. The era of the Caudillos and Latin American liberalism

V.a Week:
13. The neo-colonial pact. European emigration.
14. The English and North American presence.
15. The construction of national identities. The liberal model.

VI.a week:
16. The rev. Mexican. The crisis of the liberal state
17. The tensions of modernization between the two world wars.
18. The ideologies of the twentieth century

VII.a Week:
19. The populist model.
20. The Second World War and the Cold war.
21. The “desarrollist” State

VIII.a Week
22. The 1950s: Guatemala, Cuba, Bolivia
23. The sixties: economic crisis, guerrillas and counter-revolution
24. The “Theology of Liberation”

IX.a Week:
25. The Doctrine of National Security, military dictatorships and the internal armed conflicts
26. The neoliberal state
27. Political transitions, peace processes and the human rights issue

X.a per week:
28. Neoliberal States and new populisms.
29. The regional integration processes
30. Latin America in the global scenario.

XI.a week:
31. General discussion of the program
32. The study of the volumes of your choice: how to make the reviews
33. Evaluation of the work done and conclusion of the course.

FURTHER INFORMATION
Students who do not plan to attend the course and those who will be attending on an irregular basis are strongly encouraged to meet the course leader during office hours at the beginning of the course. To arrange a meeting outside of office hours please send an email. The meeting is important in order to obtain more detailed informations on what to study and about the oral examination.

The suggested readings are:
- Daniele Pompeiano, Storia dell’America Latina, Milano, Bruno Mondadori, 2012 (Chapters from Discovery to The process of Independence);
- Loris Zanatta, Storia Dell’ America Latina Contemporanea, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2017.
- Marcello Carmagnani e Chiara Vangelista, I nodi storici delle aree latino-americane, secoli XVI-XX, Otto s.r.l, Torino 2002.

Italian student interested in studying on an English textbook and Erasmus students can use:

- B. Keen – K. Haynes, A History of Latin America, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston -New York, 2009;
- C. Malamud, Historia de América, Alianza Editorial, Madrid, 2007.

Two books chosen from:
- Claudia Bernardi, Una storia di confine. Frontiere e lavoratori migranti tra Messico e Stati Uniti (1836-1964), Carocci, Roma, 2018;
- Benedetta Calandra, La Guerra Fredda Culturale. Esportazione e ricezione Dell’ American Way of Life In America Latina, Ombre Corte, 2011;
- Chiaramonte J. C.- Marichal C.- Granados A. (a cura di), Creare la nazione. I nomi dei paesi della America Latina, Guerini, Milano, 2014;
- Massimo De Giuseppe, La rivoluzione messicana, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2013;
- Laura Fotia, La crociera della nave “Italia” e le origini della diplomazia culturale del Fascismo in America Latina, Aracne, Roma, 2017;
- Laura Giraudo, La Questione Indigena in America Latina, Roma, Carocci, 2009;
- Hobsbawm Eric J. - Bethell Leslie (a cura di), Viva la revolución. Il secolo delle utopie in America Latina, Milano, Rizzoli, 2016;
- Federica Morelli, L'indipendenza dell'America spagnola. Dalla crisi della monarchia alle nuove repubbliche, Milano, Mondadori 2015;
- Raffaele Nocera-Angelo Trento, America Latina, un secolo di storia, Roma, Carocci, 2013;
- Francesco Davide Ragno, Liberale o populista? Il radicalismo argentino (1930-1943), Il Mulino, Bologna, 2017;
- Marzia Rosti, Argentina, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2011;
- Segre S. - Malagoli E. (a cura di), Immaginari del cambiamento in America latina. Religioni, culture, dinamiche economico-sociali, Firenze, Mauro Pagliai Editore, 2013;
- Maria R. Stabili (a cura di), Violenze di genere. Storie e memorie nell’ America Latina di fine Novecento, Nuova Cultura Edizioni, Roma 2009;
- Chiara Vangelista, Confini e Frontiere. Conflitti e alleanze inter-etniche in America meridionale, San Lazzaro di Savena (Bo), Il Segnalibro, 2001;
- Loris Zanatta, Eva Perón. Una biografia politica, Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli, 2009.