MODERN LATIN AMERICA

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This course examines modern Latin America as an historical, geographical, cultural, political and economic zone focusing on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It explores the similarities and differences within Latin America as well as between Latin America and other parts of the world. Topics included the impact of colonization and the experience of Indigenous populations, the causes and consequences of political and social revolutions, the success and failures of different political formations and the struggles to sustain economic development.