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 to the 2000s. 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
- The English and North American presence
- Migrations and Latin America
- 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
- Cold War and Latin America
- 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
- Internal armed conflicts and peace processes in Central America and Colombia
- The indigenous question
- Regional integration processes
- The turn of the century and the challenges of the new millennium

Attending students should study the text:

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

Students will have to write a paper on one of the following book:

Gioconda Belli, La donna abitata (1988) - any edition
Mario Vargas Llosa, Tempi duri (2020) - any edition
Marco Bechis, La solitudine di un sovversivo (2021) - any edition
Massimo Carlotto, Le irregolari. Buenos Aires Horror Tour (1998) - any edition



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

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

- Raffaele Nocera, Stati Uniti e America Latina dal 1823 ad oggi, Carocci

- Laura Fotia (a cura di), Le politiche dell'odio nel Novecento americano, Nova Delphi 2020