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CONTENTS OF THE COURSE (Part I - II)

Week 1:

October 4
Introduction
The structure of the course: method, assignments, forms of assessment and presentation of materials.
PART I. The TRANSFORMATION of LATIN AMERICA in the FIRST DECADES

October 5
The nation-state formation after the independence

Week 2

October 8
The new age of imperialism: the beginning of the “American century”

October 11
Revolution: the Mexican case at the edge of Latin America

October 12
Land and democracy

Week 3

October 15
Economic expansion and industrialization (1880-1930)

October 18
Labor and immigration

PART II. From the GREAT DEPRESSION to the COLD WAR
October 19
World War II and “The Great Transformation”

Week 4

October 22
Populism: an overview of an abused concept

October 25
Classical Populism: the Brazilian and Argentinian cases

October 26
The struggle for sovereignty and democracy

Week 5

October 29
Revolution in Bolivia and Guatemala

November 5
Revolution in Cuba

November 8
Wrap-up discussion about PART I and PART II

Week 6

November 12
Mid-term examination

November 15
Discussion about Mid-term and How to write a paper

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.

• Williamson Edwin, The Penguin History of Latin America, Penguin, New York, 2009.

• 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.

Per la presentazione in classe, gli studenti e le studentesse possono scegliere una tra le seguenti cinque 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].
Ch. 10 - Catherine Nolan Ferrell, “De facto Mexicans”. Coffee Workers and Nationality on the Guatemalan-Mexican Border, 1931-1941, pp. 136-162.
Ch. 14 - Michael Snodgrass, “Patronage and Progress. The Bracero Program from the perspective of Mexico”, pp. 245-266.
Ch. 17 - John H. Flores, “A Migrating Revolution. Mexican political Organizers and their Rejection of American Assimilation, 1920-40”, pp. 329-354.

2. Richard Graham (ed), The Idea of Race in Latin America (1870-1940), University of Texas Press, Austin, 1990.
Ch. 4 - Alan Knight, “Racism, Revolution, and Indigenismo: Mexico, 1910-1940”, pp. 71-114.
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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].
Seemin Qayum “Indian Ruins, National Origins: Tiwanaku and Indigenismo in La Paz, 1897–1933”, pp. 159-168.
Deborah Poole, “Mestizaje, Distinction, and Cultural Presence: The View from Oaxaca”, pp. 179-203.
Claudio Lomnitz, On the Origin of the “Mexican Race”, pp. 204-220.

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].
Ch. 5 - Jonathan Hartlyn, “Political continuities, missed opportunities, and institutional rigidities: another look at democratic transitions in Latin America”.
Ch. 6 - Arturo Valenzuela, “The crisis of presidentialism in Latin America”.
Ch. 7 - Juan Linz, “Presidentialism, and Democracy: A Critical Appraisal”.
Ch. 8 - Scott Mainwaring and Matthew S. Shugart, “The Evolution of Latin American Party Systems”.

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.
Ch. 1 - Introduction, pp. 1-34.
Ch. 4 - The war on drugs in the U.S. Mexico Border Region, 1981- 1992, pp.103-146.
Ch. 5 - Conclusion, pp. 147-172.

5. Amelia M. Kiddle, María L.O. Muñoz (eds), Populism in twentieth century Mexico: the presidencies of Lázaro Cárdenas and Luis Echeverría, University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 2010.
Alan Knight - Cárdenas and Echeverría: Two “Populist” Presidents Compared, pp. 15-37.
Diane E. Davis - Policing and Populism in the Cárdenas and Echeverría Administrations, pp. 135-158.
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Carlos de la Torre, Populist Seduction in Latin America, Ohio University Press, Columbus, 2010.
chapter 1, The Ambiguity of Latin American “Classical” Populism, pp. 1-27.
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Michael Conniff, Populism in Latin America, Second Edition, The University of Alabama press, Tuscaloosa, 2012.
Chapter 4 - From Cárdenas to López Obrador Jorge Basurto, pp. 86-109

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