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  Latin American History
This was the period of neo-colonialism in Latin America, and this worked well until 1914 and the advent of WWI when the war disrupted the market for Latin American goods.
Latin American elites increasingly saw the Indian races as the main impediment to their economic development and political and social modernization.
In Bolivia many of the same themes that occurred in Mexican History were occurring at about the same time as the Indians of the altiplano were being dispossed of their lands by the expansion of the hacienda by the 1880’s.
www.emayzine.com /lectures/neocol.html   (3663 words)

  
 Latin American History
Students new to History may wish to choose courses from those numbered 100-399 in any field, although many of the more advanced courses are also open without prerequisite to any undergraduate.
This history seminar is designed for first-year students who want to engage history at a high level of complexity, and who are ready to connect facts to larger concepts, abstractions, and theories.
Though these are just headlines from and about Latin America, they are important, for even in their superficiality they testify to the enormous complexity of a vast region and of the US's ongoing and inevitable relationship to it.
www.virginia.edu /history/courses/fall05/hilaundergrad.html   (1409 words)

  
 Latin American History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
For the vast majority of Latin Americans, however, progress was limited, and for many rural dwellers, poverty grew worse.
Latin American countries continued to depend on the export of raw materials for their revenue, rather than converting to industrial economies.
One of the key problems facing Latin America in the late 20th century was the rapid rise of external debt during the 1980s.
www.lasc.ie /countries/LA-history.html   (1702 words)

  
 Latin American History
Austin, Tex., Published for the Conference on Latin American History by the Univervity of Texas Press, 1971, 700 p.
Austin, Published for the Conference on Latin American History by the University of Texas Press, 1968.
Washington, D.C., American Institute of Geography and History, 1970.
www.columbia.edu /cu/lweb/indiv/butlref/subj/span/latam_history.html   (456 words)

  
 Latin American History - General at MSN Shopping
With aninsightful look into the future, Modern Latin America, Sixth Edition, will continue to be an exceptional text for undergraduate courses on contemporary Latin American history, society, and politics.
Here is a tangled, cataclysmic history of the hemisphere from the 1700s up to the dawn of the present century, told through resonant and compelling characters.
A masterful alchemy of history, anthropology, philosophy and visual analysis, "The Mestizo Mind definitively conceptualizes the clash of civilizations in the style of Homi Bhabha, Gayatri Spivak and Anne McClintock.
shopping.msn.com /results/shp/?bCatId=1538   (642 words)

  
 History::Latin American History::Research and Teaching
Long-term research fellowships in Latin American history are available through Fulbright, Fulbright-Hays, and the Social Science Research Council.
History graduate students at the University of Chicago have also received temporary teaching appointments at various Chicago-area colleges and universities.
The majority of students and faculty are in the History and Anthropology Departments, but the strongly interdisciplinary dialogue includes political scientists and sociologists as well as economists, business people, journalists, NGO representatives, and those in the humanities.
history.uchicago.edu /fields/latinamerica/research.html   (629 words)

  
 CSU History Latin American Studies Program Info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
The Latin American studies certificate program is an opportunity for you to learn more about this fascinating and dynamic part of the world.
Latin culture, from literature to music, food to painting is helping to redefine the culture of the United States.
SPN-372 Introduction to Spanish American Literature SPN-484 Studies in Spanish American Literature OR from among the courses in 'A' not counted toward that requirement.
www.csuohio.edu /history/latinamstds.html   (388 words)

  
 LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY: Library Resources
See also the Latin American historical dictionaries series of which the Library holds at least fifteen titles, eg.
Austin: Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Texas at Austin, 1981.
New Iberian World: a documentary history of the discovery and settlement of Latin America and the early 17th century.
www.ucalgary.ca /UofC/departments/INFO/library/subjects/HIST/latam1.htm   (653 words)

  
 History > Latin American History - UA Library
Latin America and U.S. Hispanics focus of index to articles, links to some full text.
History of the United States and Canada, all time periods.
World history from any time period with strong multilingual coverage of humanities and social sciences.
www.library.arizona.edu /search/subjects/history/latin/articles.html   (404 words)

  
 Latin American History - ELi Research Guides - UWF Libraries   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
This is an excellent index to multilingual, multidisciplinary information in the humanities, social sciences, economics, religion, the history of art, and literature from 1984 to the present.
Diplomatic correspondence of the United States concerning the independence of the Latin American nations which was published in 1925...
The society's publications includes over 25 titles related to Latin American History, including narratives, diaries, travel and voyages, privateering and shipwrecks from the 17th to the 19th centuries.
www.lib.uwf.edu /eli/Arts/LatinAmericanStudies.shtml   (3454 words)

  
 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Current Latin American holdings throughout Cornell's 20 unit libraries exceed 300,000 monographic volumes and 4,000 periodical titles, placing Cornell among the nation's ten largest Latin American collections.
The majority of Cornell's Latin American materials are located in Olin Library, which houses the university's main circulating collections in the humanities and social sciences.
Exceptional collecting depths in anthropology, history, and literature are the results of Cornell's research and teaching strengths in those subjects.
rmc.library.cornell.edu /collections/latinamerhist.html   (252 words)

  
 Latin American History at Indiana University
My work seeks to understand the ways in which Latin American women responded to the limitations imposed on their lives by a pervasive patriarchal social and political culture, racial prejudice, and poverty during the process of nation-building in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
We must consider, however, that a substantial number of women's everyday activities in Latin America (as in other parts of the world) unfolded not in a public sphere, which was mostly dominated by men, but in private places like the home.
Understanding the logic of women’s existence and women's response to the world they lived in is vital to showing how their actions have affected the Latin American past and present.
www.indiana.edu /~lahist/IU_lahist_faculty_diaz.html   (1021 words)

  
 Latin American History Research Guide - Marriott Library
The focus is on materials covering Latin American and Caribbean culture, economy, history, literature and politics, but some information on Portugal, Spain and the immigrant communities has been added as a matter of related interest.
Latin American Open Access Portal " The portal provides access to working documents, pre-prints, research papers, statistical documents, and other difficult-to-access materials from the 'deep Web.' Typically, this content is published by research institutes, non-governmental organizations, and peripheral agencies that are not controlled by commercial publishers."
Arachne Journal of Iberian and Latin American Literary and Cultural Studies.
www.lib.utah.edu /ResGuides/latin_lamerica.html   (1827 words)

  
 ASU Libraries: Latin American History - Colonial Period
A general index to more than 400 journals dealing with Latin American studies in all major disciplines of the social sciences and humanities.
Includes article abstracts and bibliographic citations of books and dissertations on the history of the world from 1450 to the present, except for the United States and Canada.
Managed by the Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS) at the University of Texas at Austin, the UT-LANIC web site is designed to provide Latin Americanists with access to a wide variety of academic databases and information services and sources electronically available.
www.asu.edu /lib/hayden/ref/lata/colonial.html   (1440 words)

  
 Latin American Studies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
This year the Department of History voted to approve, and the Graduate School endorsed, a proposal to add a graduate track in Latin American History to the current graduate offerings of the Department (in European, Medieval and United States history).
The Department of History has two distinguished Latin Americanists on its faculty: Sabine MacCormack, a specialist in history of the Andean region before the nineteenth century and Ted Beatty, a historian of modern Mexico with a particular interest in economic history and the history of technology.
Programs based in the Kellogg Institute, one of the country's premier centers for the study of Latin America, add further depth and range to historical research that we are able to support.
www.nd.edu /~history/graduate/newgraduatetrack.shtml   (437 words)

  
 History ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
History presents a clear understanding of the past, and helps us deal with the present and future.
A college level history class requires one to read, synthesize and analyze materials very carefully and present the analysis in clear written prose and in clear, well-focused comments and oral presentation.
Understand major ideas, values, beliefs and experiences that have shaped human history and cultures: understand the role of religions in different cultures; understand gender, ethnicity, race, age and abilities as factors and forces in human communities; and understand the nature and value of work and responsibility in human communities.
northonline.sccd.ctc.edu /nutting/268s05_syl.htm   (1386 words)

  
 Graduate Study in Latin American History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
In order to meet various students' needs, the program provides training for those preparing for further graduate work, for those interested in a teaching credential, and for those planning to terminate their training at the Master's level and seek employment in areas for which they are qualified.
Thus, the M.A. program in Latin American History is designed to accommodate students' varied interests and needs as they pursue a course of study under the direction of Professor Abdiel Oñate and Professor Julyana Peard.
A candidate for the Master's of Arts in History must be prepared in two fields: major field (9-15 units) and a minor field (9 units).
userwww.sfsu.edu /~onate/grad.htm   (529 words)

  
 Oxford Latin American Economic History Database - About OxLAD
The Oxford Latin American Economic History Database (OxLAD) contains statistical series for a wide range of economic and social indicators covering twenty countries in the region for the period 1900-2000.
The project on the economic history of twentieth century Latin America from which the database derives was initiated and funded by the Inter-American Development Bank, and resulted in the study published as Thorp, R. Progress, Poverty and Exclusion: an Economic History of Latin America in the Twentieth Century' (Washington DC: Inter-American Development Bank, 1998).
OxLAD is produced by the Latin American Centre of Oxford University, one of four centres in the UK dedicated to postgraduate teaching and research in Latin American studies.
oxlad.qeh.ox.ac.uk   (358 words)

  
 Latin American History Web | UNC Charlotte
This web site was created to assist and encourage students who are interested in Latin American history.
We provide images of Latin America and connections to libraries, archives, journals and specialized collections.
We encourage you to seek opportunities to travel and study in Latin America and to take Latin American studies courses taught by the faculty of other UNCC departments.
www.coas.uncc.edu /latinamerican/latinhistory   (202 words)

  
 Latin American Labor History Conference   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
It was founded at Yale University under the sponsorship of Yale's Council on Latin American Studies.
While the major academic conferences such as those of the American Historical Association and the Latin American Studies Association have sessions on Latin American labor, they offer little room for the sort of informed, prolonged discussion that takes place at the Latin American Labor History Conference.
Scholars from most major Latin American studies programs in the U.S. have attended, in addition to a sizeable number of Latin Americans and some Europeans.
www.duke.edu /web/las/Council/laborhist.html   (336 words)

  
 Latin American History
Be able to identify and discuss the people, events, and ideas which have shaped the history of Latin America.
Have a deeper understanding of the sometimes tortured relationship between Latin American countries and their northern neighbor, the U.S., and be able to discuss the reasons for it.
Be able to identify on a map the countries of South and Central American and the Caribbean.
www.stfrancis.edu /hi/schultz/lasyllabus.html   (555 words)

  
 Latin American History Resources
Defines terms, ideas and events that took place in Latin America, cross-references terms, and sometimes describes their "Significance," such as what they mean in individual countries.
Provides an overview of Latin American history from the earliest civilizations to the year 1999.
Also includes many of the Latin American conquistadores, in addition to a bibliography, and lists of the explorers by nationality and by area of exploration.
www.lib.wsc.ma.edu /guidlatamerhistory.html   (1366 words)

  
 Carnegie Mellon Libraries: History: Latin American History
Below are archives, libraries, and museums for Latin American and Caribbean History.
Electronic version of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, this database consists of selected, annotated citations to books, journal articles, book chapters, and conference papers in anthropology (including archaeology, ethnohistory and ethnology), art, economics, geography, politics, history, international relations, literature, music, philosophy, and sociology.
Database of citations and abstracts to journals articles, book reviews, and dissertations in the areas of history, anthropology, political science, religon, etc. for all countries excluding the United States and Canada, from 1450 to the present.
www.library.cmu.edu /Research/Humanities/History/latinamerica.html   (1182 words)

  
 History 238 - Modern Latin American History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Brazil, contrary to the other Latin American nations, achieved its indepence almost bloodlessly and established an empire, with Pedro I and II serving as leaders up until 1888.
The U.S. issued its famous "Monroe Doctrine", closing the American continents to future colonization by European powers and threatening the use of force in the event of a violation of this declaration.
Finally, we discussed the growing conflict between liberals and conservatives, a problem that would dominate Latin American politics for nearly a century.
www.as.ua.edu /history/images/238note5.htm   (153 words)

  
 History at Minnesota-Latin American History
The boom in social history continues, while newer approaches influenced by cultural studies, gender analysis, legal studies, and new political history have also taken off.
Current research is integrating the insights of social history into a fresh analysis of politics and state formation, examining how groups such as indigenous communities, urban workers, and women both reacted to and helped shape state policies and national identities.
Sarah Chambers' research is influenced by cultural studies, gender analysis, legal studies and new political history, and focuses particularly on the transition period from the colonial to republican eras.
www.hist.umn.edu /graduate/latin.html   (379 words)

  
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His proposal, made at a meeting of the Center for Latin American Studies, drew an immediate and enthusiastic response.
As for the Caribbean, it is true that these islands felt the first impact of epidemic disease and "ecological imperialism" witnessed the earliest attempts to transplant Hispanic civilization to the Americas, with the resultant disruption of destruction of native societies and launched the long history of indigenous resistance and accommodation to European invaders.
As a result, we unwittingly tended to reinforce the stereotypes of Europeans as actors, the makers of history, and Native Americans as reactors.
muweb.millersville.edu /~columbus/data/art/COPE-01.ART   (4754 words)

  
 Yale History Graduate Students : Caribbean & Latin American History
In addition to Latin America and Iberia, my teaching and research interests also include slavery and race in the early modern Atlantic, U.S.-Latin American relations, the Mexican revolution, and cross-cultural encounters in the early modern world.
I am interested in intellectual and cultural history, and have worked on projects involving culture and empire, nationalism and the politics of art, and intellectual communities and concepts of modernism.
I study Mexican and Mexican-American history, as well as Latin American and U.S. ethnic history more generally, and I am particularly interested in transnational approaches to migration history.
www.yale.edu /history/gradstudents/latin-america.html   (2312 words)

  
 Latin American History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
The Department of History, Central Connecticut State University, invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in Latin American history to begin in Fall 2003.
Applicants must currently hold or be pursuing a Ph.D. in history or related discipline.
Courses to be taught include surveys of world history and Latin American history, as well as more specialized courses appropriate to the successful candidate’s field of research.
www.history.ccsu.edu /latin_american_history_job.htm   (183 words)

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