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HOW TO READ MODERN LATIN AMERICA

HOW TO READ MODERN LATIN AMERICA. LATI 50 Introduction to Latin America. … and learn to love it!. CASE STUDIES. Mexico: The Taming of a Revolution Central America and the Caribbean: Within the U.S. Orbit Cuba: Key Colony, Socialist State The Andes: Soldiers, Oligarchs, and Indians

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HOW TO READ MODERN LATIN AMERICA

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  1. HOW TO READMODERN LATIN AMERICA LATI 50 Introduction to Latin America

  2. … and learn to love it!

  3. CASE STUDIES • Mexico: The Taming of a Revolution • Central America and the Caribbean: Within the U.S. Orbit • Cuba: Key Colony, Socialist State • The Andes: Soldiers, Oligarchs, and Indians • Colombia: Civility and Violence • Venezuela: The Perils of Prosperity • Argentina: Progress and Stalemate • Chile: Repression and Democracy • Brazil: The Awakening Giant

  4. ANALYTICAL THEMES • economic transformations induce social changes which, in turn, lead to political consequences • shifting alliances among social class groups give shape to patterns of political conflict over time • a country’s place in the international division of labor defines the shape of available paths to economic growth • differences in economic processes have produced different forms of social structure and patterns of social change

  5. SOCIAL STRUCTURE • Upper Class: • Urban (industrialists, bankers) • Rural (landowners) • Middle Class: • Urban (merchants, lawyers, etc.) • Rural (small farmers) • Popular/Lower Class: • Urban (workers) • Rural (peasants, campesinos) • National Institutions: • State (including military) • Church • External Sector: • Economic (investors, merchants) • Political (foreign governments)

  6. CHRONOLOGY OF CHANGE • Liberal Era (1880s-1920s) • Export-import development • Oligarchs and strong men • Import-Substitution Industrialization (1930s-1970s) • Industrialization • Populism and dictatorship • Socialist Alternative (1950s-1980s) • Revolutionary movements • State-controlled economies • Neoliberalism (1980s-present) • Pro-market policies • Democracy (of sorts)

  7. COMPARING POLITICS • Mexico: Revolution of 1910 + dominant-party system • Central America and Caribbean: plantation society, U.S. influence, dictatorship and protest • Cuba: plantation society, socialist revolution, resistance to United States • Question A: Compare Mexican and Cuban revolutions • Question B: Trace colonial legacies in Mexico and CA + Caribbean • Question C: Why not more revolution ferment in CA + Caribbean?

  8. THE MLA WEBSITE • Address: <www.oup.com/us/skidmore> • Overall structure • Documents 3, 6, 10

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