The course aims at providing students the basic elements for reconstructing, in the light of the most recent studies, the historical development of Latin America up to the 1990s, within the broader context of global history. At the end of the course, students will be able to intepret and appropriately contextualize the topics addressed within the period studied. During the course they will also work to develop essential critical and argumentative skills, as well as the ability to synthesize information.
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materiale didattico
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
- 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
- Loris Zanatta, Storia dell'America Latina contemporanea, Laterza, 2017 ss.
Students will have to prepare an oral presentation during the course.
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
Programma
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
- 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
Testi Adottati
Attending students should study the text:- Loris Zanatta, Storia dell'America Latina contemporanea, Laterza, 2017 ss.
Students will have to prepare an oral presentation during the course.
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
Bibliografia Di Riferimento
- Loris Zanatta, Storia dell’America Latina contemporanea, Laterza, 2017 ss. - 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 2020Modalità Erogazione
The course is divided into a series of frontal lessons aimed at providing students with the fundamental knowledge for achieving the training objectives; these will be accompanied by debates on the readings assigned by the lecturer as well as documentaries and art films on particularly relevant topics. During the last part of the course, students will prepare papers on a topic of their choice among those proposed by the lecturer. Hints, tips and useful teaching materials for the preparation of the papers will be provided by the lecturer during the course.Modalità Frequenza
Attendance is not compulsoryModalità Valutazione
For attending students, the final assessment will be based 15% on lecture attendance, 15% on the oral presentation and 70% on the written examination. For non-attending students, a written examination is scheduled during the examination sessions. The criteria to be used for the assessment of the examination will be, above all, knowledge of the content, clarity of presentation, critical judgement, ability to discuss and to synthesize . Non-attending students and those who attend occasionally are invited to arrange a meeting with the lecturer at the beginning of the course in order to receive more detailed information on the syllabus and how the examination will be conducted.