College Bulletin 2023-2024 
    
    May 05, 2024  
College Bulletin 2023-2024

HIST 004 Syllabus

HIST 004. Latin American History


Drawing on literature, cinema, newspapers, cartoons, music, official documents, and historical essays, this survey course examines the colonial incorporation of the region into the Atlantic economy; the neo-colonial regimes of the 19th and 20th centuries and their diverse and convergent historical paths; and the challenges and opportunities of earlier and current globalization trends. Emphasis on changes and continuities over five centuries exploring revolutionary, reformist, and conservative agendas of change as well as gender, class, racial, and religious issues.
Concentrations: Capitalism, Empires and Nations
Social sciences.
1 credit.
Eligible for LALS, GLBL-paired. Concentrations: Capitalism, Empires and Nations
Fall 2025. Armus.
Catalog chapter: History  
Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/history


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