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Spring 2023 History UN2661 section 001 LATIN AMERICAN CIVILIZATION II LATIN AMERICAN CIVILIZATI | |
| Call Number | 11205 |
| Day & Time Location |
TR 2:40pm-3:55pm 310 Fayerweather |
| Points | 4 |
| Grading Mode | Standard |
| Approvals Required | None |
| Instructor | Alfonso Salgado |
| Type | LECTURE |
| Method of Instruction | In-Person |
| Course Description | This course explores major themes in Latin American history from the independence period (ca 1810) to the present. We will hone in on Latin Americas “chronic” problems of social inequality, political polarization, authoritarianism, incomplete democratization, and troubled memory politics. The course covers economic, social, and cultural histories, and gives special weight to the transnational aspects of Latin American ideological struggles – from its dependency on Western capital to its ideological “inner Cold War” – and the way they influenced the subaltern strata of society. The section discussions are a crucial component of the course, and will focus on assigned historiography. While the lecture centers on constructing a cogent meta-narrative for Latin America’s modern era, in the section we will explore not only the historical “facts,” but will instead ask: how do historians know what they know about the past? What sources and analytic methods do they use to write history? And what ethical dilemmas do they confront when narrating politically-sensitive topics? |
| Web Site | Vergil |
| Department | History |
| Enrollment | 60 students (88 max) as of 9:06PM Wednesday, May 31, 2023 |
| Subject | History |
| Number | UN2661 |
| Section | 001 |
| Division | Interfaculty |
| Campus | Morningside |
| Note | Discussion HIST UN2665 REQUIRED |
| Section key | 20231HIST2661W001 |
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