SSH 132 — Latin American History 2
This course surveys Latin American history from the late eighteenth century to the 1990s. Topics include wars of independence, challenges of nation-state formation, economic development, industrialization, labor, race, art, populism, dictatorship, and revolutionary movements. The course also focuses on the role of the United States in regional affairs, including neo-colonialism in Panama and the Caribbean, coups in Guatemala and Chile, and violence in Central America.