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Lectures (Lecture 1 (What is Latin America? (Latin America: concept…
Lectures
Lecture 1
introduction
Broad paper, covering key issues in
Latin American history.
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Territory and population
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the ring of fire: 
What is Latin America?
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US expansionism, and competition with
European colonial expansion.
Given the region’s diversity, why was it possible to
construct the concept of Latin America?
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Lecture program
Introduction.
• Pre-Columbian World.
• The Conquest of the “New World”: Significance and consequences.
• Techniques and institutions of colonial rule.
• Religion, Church, and Conversion to Christianity.
• Slavery and mining.
• Reform, revolution and the crisis of the colonial regime.
• Independence and the new nation-states.
• The 19th century and the changing global order.
• The Mexican revolution and the land question in Latin America.
• The Cuban revolution, significance and consequences.
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