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| 0621-1194-01 | Latin America in the 20th Century | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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University credit hours: 2.0
Course description
We will review some central developments and processes in 20th century Latin America trying to show the connections between the socio-economic spheres and the political and cultural processes. Among the issues: the oligarchic order and the dependent development; the consequences of US imperialism; the Mexican revolution; the University reform movement and the rise of the urban middle classes; the authoritarian regimes of the 1930s; democratization and populist reforms in the 1940s; the Cuban revolution; the struggle on Latin America during the 1960s and 1970s; the dictatorships between conservatism and neo-liberalism; democratization, social inequality and economic crisis; the rise of new socio-political subjects at the end of the century.