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Academic Year 2000/2001
The Colonial Heritage of Latin America: Neo-Colonial Dependency
HIST 319 FA
This course is a study of the creation and structure of colonial society and its impact on contemporary Latin America. Extensive reading of primary sources is required.
MAJOR READINGS
Florence Babb, THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF MARKET WOMEN IN PERU Fidel Castro, HISTORY WILL ABSOLVE ME David Collier, ed., THE NEW AUTHORITATIANISM IN LATIN AMERICA Carlos Fuentes, THE HYDRA HEAD Richard Graham,
BRITAIN AND THE ONSET OF MODERNIZATION
IN BRAZIL Gustavo Gutierrez, A THEOLOGY OF LIBERATION Walter Lafeber, INEVITABLE REVOLUTIONS V.S. Naipaul, THE RETURN OF EVA PERON D.F. Sarmiento, LIFE IN THE ARGENTINE REPUBLIC IN THE DAYS OF THE TYRANTS
Steven Schlesinger and Stephen Kinzer,
BITTER FRUIT: THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE AMERICAN COUP IN GUATEMALA Stanley Stein and Barbara Stein, THE COLONIAL HERITAGE OF LATIN AMERICA Additional articles and primary documents on reserve.
EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS
Active participation, including one class presentation. Seven short papers (2-3pp.) on weekly readings and one longer, final paper, due 9:00 a.m one day before the readings are to be discussed in class.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS
Preference given to majors in HIST and LAST and to students who have had HIST/LAST 245 (which is NOT a prerequisite). Students who wish to use this seminar to satisfy the history or Latin American studies research
requirement may do so through special
arrangement with the instructor, submitting a research paper instead of the short papers. Such students are still required to complete all reading assignments and fulfill all other requirements. No extensions, no
incompletes, no unexcused absences.
Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed
Drop/Add form to the Registrar's
Office. Reading list subject to change because Latin American texts go out of print quickly.
COURSE FORMAT:
Lecture
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level:
UGRD
Credit:
1
Gen Ed Area Dept:
NONE
Grading Mode:
Student Option
Prerequisites:
NONE
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Last Updated on MAR-26-2001
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