Università Roma Tre

Main topics covered in the course:
1 Ancient and modern historiographical issues: the modalities of the Spanish conquest.
2 The formation of contemporary Latin America: the abolition of slavery in the nineteenth century.
3 Latin America in the twentieth century: economy, society, institutions, culture.
4 The current geopolitical continental situation.

The exam consists of two parts, a general part and a monographic part.
General part, composed of two texts:
-Nocera, R., Trento, A., America latina, un secolo di storia. Dalla Rivoluzione messicana a oggi, Carocci, 2013;
-Zanatta, L., Storia dell’America latina contemporanea, Roma, Laterza, 2015 (or subsequent editions).

Monographic part. A book chosen from the following:
-Guarnieri Calò Carducci, L., La questione indigena in Perù, Roma, Bulzoni, 2010 (The anthology of texts is an essential part of the book).
-Pompejano, D., Il dio nero degli uomini bianchi, Roma, Carocci, 2015.
-Rojas Mix, M., I cento nomi d’America, Firenze, Le Lettere, 2005.
-Vargas Llosa, A., Libertà per l’America latina. Come porre fine a cinquecento anni di oppressione dello Stato, Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino, 2007.