History 439
Modern Latin America
Dale Graden

Overview

August 26-28
Introduction, Spain and Portugal in the 1490s, The Americas in 1492

Sept 2-4

Colonial Society, the Age of Revolutions 1750-1850

Sept 9-11

Historical Fiction; José de San Martín, Simón Bólivar and the independence wars

Sept 16-18

Latin America in the 19^th century

Sept 23-25

Afro-Latin America

Sept 30-Oct 2

The New Empire of the United States

Oct 7-9

Central America in the 1920s

Oct 14-16

Augusto Sandino

Oct 21-23

American Inquisition

Oct 28-30

Guatemala, the mother of interventions

Nov 4-6

Cuba

Nov 11-13

Military Security States

Nov 18-20

The wars of Central America

Nov 25-27, Thanksgiving break

Dec 2-4

Bolivia I

Dec 9-11

Bolivia II

Readings

Gabriel Garcia Márquez, The General In His Labyrinth

E. Bradford Burns, The Poverty of Progress: Latin America in the Nineteenth Century

George Reid Andrews, Afro-Latin America, 1800-2000

Maria de los Reyes Castillo Bueno, Reyita: The Life of a Black Woman in the Twentieth Century

Stephen Rabe, The Killing Zone: The United States wages Cold War in Latin America

William D. Powers, Whispering in the Giant’s Ear: A Frontline Chronicle from Bolivia’s War on Globalization