Course module - Economic and Social History of Latin America, c.1800-2000

Code : HIST20881
Credit rating: 20
Semester : 1

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Aims

 

Objectives (Learning Outcomes)

On successful completion of the course students will have:

Extended their ability to work independently

Broadened their experience of non-Western historical processes and

Developed fuller understanding of historical controversies

Developed their abilities to present in depth work orally and in writing and improved their capacity to assimilate and retrieve both bodies of information and historical interpretation.

Assessment

2 hour examination (50%); assessed essay (50%) (or prescribed equivalent)

Information

Free Choice : No

Course Content

This course introduces students to key themes and debates in the social and economic history of Latin America since Independence. Some of the themes and debates to be considered include (may vary from year to year): the causes and consequences of Independence; the economic and political instability of the post-Independence period; the persistence of slavery and the causes and consequences of emancipation; the rise of Latin American export economies; British informal imperialism; US economic and cultural expansion and influence; European and Asian immigration; class, gender, and race and the making of ‘national’ identities; the rise of ‘populism’ and the social and economic consequences of ‘mass politics’; social revolution; the social and economic effects of military rule; neoliberalism and social exclusion; the politics of memory.

Course Materials

Tutor(s)

Drinot, Dr Paulo

Timetable

This information is correct for 2009/10

Lecture: Tuesday 15.00-16.00, Seminars: as advertised

Teaching Methods

The course will be taught by means of a weekly lecture with weekly tutorials. The emphasis will be on reading secondary material but seminars will include discussion of primary sources (in English).

Preliminary reading

Abel, Christopher, and Colin M. Lewis, eds. Latin America, Economic Imperialism, and the State: The Political Economy of the External Connection from Independence to the Present. London: Athlone, 1985.
Appelbaum, Nancy P., Anne S. Macpherson, and Karin A. Rosemblatt, Race & Nation in Modern Latin America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003.
Bethell, Leslie (ed.), Latin America: Economy and Society, 1870-1930. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
Bethell, Leslie (ed.), Latin America: Economy and Society since 1930. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Dore, Elizabeth and Maxine Molyneux, eds., Hidden Histories of Gender and the State in Latin America, Durham: Duke University Press, 2000.
Graham, Richard, ed. The Idea of Race in Latin America, 1870-1940. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1990.
Haber, Stephen (ed.), How Latin America Fell Behind: Essays on the Economic Histories of Brazil and Mexico, 1800-1914. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Halperin Donghi, Tulio, The Contemporary History of Latin America. Durham: Duke University Press, 1993.
Love, Joseph, and Nils Jacobsen, eds. Guiding the Invisible Hand: Economic Liberalism and the State in Latin American History. New York: Praeger, 1988.
Miller, Rory, Britain and Latin America in the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries. London: Longman, 1993.
Pike, Fredrick B., The United States and Latin America: Myths and Stereotypes of Civilization and Nature. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1992.

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