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Section Information for Spring 2023
This course is an introductory survey of modern Latin America that explores the history of the region through various thematic frames. This perspective aims to provide students with both conceptual and historical tools to understand Latin America as central to the making of the modern world. The course begins with the era of Latin American independence in the early 1800s and concludes with a focus on the politics of history and memory in contemporary Latin America. In our course lectures and readings, we will explore how the interplay of European, indigenous, African, and mestizo traditions have shaped politics, culture, and economics in Latin America. We will also focus on how the histories of slavery and emancipation, revolutionary politics, populisms, state terrorism, democratization, and cultural production have all shaped Latin America.
HIST 272 DL1 is an asynchronous distance education section.
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Credits: 3
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