Corsi di Studio del Dipartimento di Culture, Politica e Società

LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY

LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY

Anno accademico 2019/2020

Sommario insegnamento

• Obiettivi formativi
• Risultati dell'apprendimento attesi
• Modalità di insegnamento
• Modalità di verifica dell'apprendimento
• Programma
• Testi consigliati e bibliografia
• Note
• Strumenti didattici

Obiettivi formativi

Students electing this course will come away with a solid, global understanding of the history of decolonization and the pioneering place of the Americas in that story. 

Risultati dell'apprendimento attesi

1) A greater understanding of Latin American history;

2) The ability to critically analyze and discuss primary documents;

3) The ability to identify historiographic debates;

4) A greater understanding of the place of Latin America in world history.

Modalità di insegnamento

Classwork consists in traditional teaching and discussion of papers between teachers and students. 

Modalità di verifica dell'apprendimento

Attending students:
Students who attend classes will be asked to make a presentation on a paper, discussed with teacher and peers during the lessons. Then, they will be asked to write an essay (about 5.000 words) based on the paper and the discussion. This relation is aimed to check both the students' ability to organize complex knowledge and their knowledge of the discipline.

Non attending students:
To assess the ability to apply the acquaintances learnt during the readings, a final written exam is schedeuled for non attending students. This exam will be assessed according to the following criteria: a) the acquisition of the basic expertise; b) the ability to critically reasoning on the subjects of the course. Students will have two hours to conclude their written exam. 

Due to the Covid-19 situation, the exam will take place online through a webex monitoring. 

Programma

Although conventionally understood to be a post-war, twentieth-century phenomenon, the history of modern decolonization actually began not in Algeria or India but in the Americas in the late eighteenth-century. Indeed, the first recorded use of the term ‘decolonize’ appears in Peru in 1822. The first ‘ex-colonial’ and anti-imperialist experiments in republican nation-making took place in nineteenth-century Latin America, where subaltern actors advanced radical claims, some of which were only much later reversed or normalized. Notably, these experiments in decolonization resonated across the Atlantic and, eventually, the Pacific as well. In fact, many nineteenth-century revolutionaries in Latin American and beyond believed that the age of imperialism was coming fast to an end. When European imperialism arose again in the late nineteenth century, Latin America and Caribbean actors would again play critical roles, inspiring and in some cases cooperating with decolonization movements in Africa and Asia. 

Attending students:

- Mark Thurner, The First Wave of Decolonization (New York: Routledge, 2019);

- Essays and articles commented during the course.

Non attending students:

- Teresa Meade, A History of Modern Latin America: 1800 to the present (Wiley-Blackwell, 2016);

- Mark Thurner, The First Wave of Decolonization (New York: Routledge, 2019).

Note

The material useful for the students will be available on the website of the course. 

• Materiale didattico
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