Università Roma Tre

The course aims at providing students with an understanding of the history of Latin America from the processes of independence to the end of the 20th century. At the end of the course, students will have an in-depth knowledge of the problems and events dealt with during the lessons and to be able to appropriately contextualize them over the chronological period studied.

The course addresses (among others) these key topics:

- The idea of Latin America
- The process of independence
- The construction of national states and the affirmation of the primary-export model
- European migrations and Latin America
- The English and North American presence
- The Crisis of the Liberal State
- Relations with Europe and the United States in the 1920s and 1930s
- The emergence of the populist state
- The 'great transformation' of Latin America
- The Latin American Cold War
- The Cuban Revolution
- The 1960s: crises, reforms, revolutions
- The counter-revolutionary cycle. The National Security Doctrine, military dictatorships and the neo-liberal state
- The Plan Condor and human rights violations in the Southern Cone
- Democratic transitions in the Southern Cone
- Internal armed conflicts and peace processes in Central America and Colombia
- The women's question in Latin America
- Regional integration processes
- The turn of the century and the challenges of the new millennium

Attending students, in addition to the essays provided by the lecturer, should study the text:

- Loris Zanatta, Storia dell'America Latina contemporanea, Laterza, 2017


Non-attending students will have to study the following texts:

- Loris Zanatta, Storia dell'America Latina contemporanea, Laterza, 2017

- Raffaele Nocera, United States and Latin America from 1823 to the present, Carocci

- Laura Fotia (ed.), Politics of Hate in Twentieth-Century America, Nova Delphi (essays on Latin America only)