Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Description The course is an analysis of the interplay of Mexican politics, economic opportunities, culture and relations with the United over the course of Mexican history and how it shapes present-day conditions. The course is organized in six units, four of which are chronological and two are thematic. I build the class around active learning […]
Join History 4000 (US and Latin America) a second-session online summer course that focuses on historical origins of the relationship of US and Latin America in order to understand the present-day bearings. We study how diplomats, businesses, organizations, and the public shaped international relations by conducting research on primary sources available in online collections. Regardless […]
I’m happy to announce that Living Standards in Latin American History, the collection of essays that I co-edited with Ricardo Salvatore and John Coatsworth (Harvard University DRCLAS, 2010) was awarded the Jaume Vicens Vives prize. The prize is granted by the Spanish Economic History Association to the best book on Latin America and Spain published […]
This Fall I will teach HIST4110 Modern Mexico. It is an upper-level survey class that covers Mexican history from independence to the present day. The goals are just two: to explore the connections between economic growth, inequality, popular political participation and the close relationship to the US in the past and present of Mexico; and […]
(Postdata: Some have expressed concern about obtaining the materials. We’ll sort this out in the first week of classes to provide lower cost alternatives to buying the books. I also wanted to point out that this is a tentative arrangement of readings, the list may change in the final version. Don’t hesitate to send me […]
Saturday, February 12, 2011
First things first: We are having a Dance/Gran Baile on Saturday night (2/19) at the Cla-Zel with a band from Cleveland (Sammy de León y su orquesta), and the event is open to the community. Feel free to invite friends and help us this thing go viral by posting on facebook, blogs, tweeting, chirping, shouting, […]
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
In my Modern Latin America class I am paying a lot of attention to the unfolding of the Haiti crisis. I do so primarily because of the magnitude of the tragedy, which we cannot ignore. It also illustrates well some of the key problems in the history of Latin American societies, such as state building, […]
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Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Here’s the Syllabus of my Modern Latin America course (History 3010). Enjoy!
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Here’s a translation of selected excerpts of Julio Guerrero, La Génesis del Crimen (1901), which I am using in History 3010: Modern Latin America. Credit is due to Liz Becker, an M.A. student in History and Spanish in BGSU, for the translation. The original version, in Spanish, can be retrieved from books.google.com.
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
I have enclosed in this posting a preliminary organization of classes and readings: 3010 preliminary syllabus. All the references to chapters are from Tulio Halperín Donghi’s Contemporary History of Latin America (CHLA), available through the bookstore. If interested on why I chose this book (originally written in the 1960s and revised c. 1992), see my previous posting. […]
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