- Docente: Loris Zanatta
- Credits: 10
- SSD: SPS/05
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Forli
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in International relations and diplomatic affairs (cod. 8048)
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from Feb 19, 2024 to May 24, 2024
Learning outcomes
The course is designed as a basic tool for understanding the history and contemporary Latin American politics. Its key objectives are: to provide the structural elements of economic and political geography of Latin America, with particular attention to the heterogeneity of the region and ensure a general approach on the main stages of contemporary Latin American history. At the end of the course the student should be able to find a key to understanding the history of Latin America that allows him to establish the largest possible number of parallels with the Western European history .
Course contents
Political and social history of Latin America from the age of independence to date
Readings/Bibliography
Testo di base obbligatorio:
L.Zanatta, Storia dell'America Latina contemporanea, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2017 (nuova edizione aggiornata)
Per la parte orale dell'esame gli studenti dovranno studiare due monografie a scelta tra le seguenti (sarà possibile concordarne di diverse col docente durante il corso):
Autori Vari, Nueva historia mínima de México, Turner Publicaciones 2013.
Contreras Carlos, Zuloaga Marina, Historia mínima de Perú, El Colegio de México, 2014.
Fausto, Boris, História Concisa do Brasil, EDUSP; 3° edizione, 2022.
Haslam, Jonathan, The Nixon administration and the death of Allende's Chile: a case of assisted suicide, Verso, 2005.
Klein Hebert S., Historia mínima de Bolivia, El Colegio de México, 2016.
Melo Jorge Orlando, Historia mínima de Colombia, El Colegio de México, 2017.
Novaro, Marcos, La dittatura argentina, Carocci, Roma 2005.
Ragno, Francesco, Liberale o populista? Il radicalismo argentino (1930-1943), Bologna 2017.
Sagredo Baeza Rafael, Historia mínima de Chile, El Colegio de México, 2014.
Stefanini, Maurizio, Adiós Venezuela. La fine del chavismo da Maduro a Guaidó, Roma 2019.
Zanatta, Loris, Il populismo gesuita. Perón, Fidel, Bergoglio, Roma 2020.
Zanatta, Loris, Eva Perón. Una biografia politica, Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli 2009
Zanatta, Loris, Fidel Castro, l’ultimo Re cattolico, Roma 2019.
Teaching methods
Traditional
Assessment methods
The examination will consist of two written exams during the course plus one oral exam at the end of the course on the last part of the program and the two monographs identified by the student.
Office hours
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