J. Pablo Silva  
Spring Semester 2007
History 204. Radical Movements in Twentieth-Century Latin America

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Syllabus

Week 2: January 29
Week 3: February 5
Week 4: February 12
Week 5: February 19
Week 6: February 26
Week 7: March 5
Week 8: March 12
Week 9: April 2
Week 10: April 9
Week 11: April 16
Week 12: April 23
Week 13: April 30
Week 14: May 7

Required Texts

Assignments

Research Paper

Exams

Grading

 

 

Introduction. Origins and Overview (weeks 1-2)
Monday, 22 January
Why Radical Movements?
  Utopia Unarmed, pp. 3-22.
   
Wednesday, 24 January
What were the Origins?
  Utopia Unarmed, pp. 23-50.
   
Friday, 26 January
How did Radical Movements Change?
  Wright, pp. 1-38.

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Monday, 29 January
What Impact did Cuba Have generally?
  Wright, pp. 39-107.
   
Wednesday, 31 January
What Impact did Cuba Have specifically?
  Wright, pp. 111-164.
   
Friday, 2 February
What Has Happened to Radical Movements in the Last 25 Years?
  Wright, 165-206.

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Week 3
Case 1. The Guatemalan Revolution (weeks 3-4)
Monday, 5 February
Was Cuba Really the Key Turning Point?
  The World War and the Cold War, e-reserve.
   
Wednesday, 7 February
How was it a Revolution?
  Accounts of Guatemala under Arevalo, Blackboard.
   
Friday, 9 February
Why was it Threatening?
 

Paper Topics are Due.
Accounts of Guatemala under Arbenz, Blackboard.

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Week 4  
Monday, 12 February
What was the US view?
 

Cullather, pp. vii-37.
Map Quiz

   
Wednesday, 14 February
So what did they do?
  Cullather, pp. 38-104.
   
Friday, 16 February
What is the Evaluation?
  Cullather, pp. 105-123 and Afterword.

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Case 2. The Cuban Revolution (weeks 5-6)
Week 5  
Monday, 19 February
What was going on in Cuba?
  US State Dept. on Pre-1959 Cuba, on blackboard.
Castro, History Will Absolve Me, on blackboard.
   
Wednesday, 21 February
How did it Happen?
 

Review Wright, pp. 1-38.
Accounts of the Revolution, e-reserve.

   
Friday, 23 February
Why Castro?
  Fidel Movie, on reserve in the Listening Room.
Wickham-Crowley, pp. 19-29.

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Week 6  
Monday, 26 February
What happened to the Revolution?
  Death of Bureaucrat, just in the library.
Guantanamera, on reserve in AV center and Lib.
   
Wednesday, 28 February
What was the Impact of the Revolution?
  Review Wright, pp. 57-92.
Utopia Unarmed, 51-89.
   
Thursday, 1 March Paper Bibliographies are due. Remember to include a title page.
   
Friday, 2 March
Why did the Revolution have this Impact?
 
Wickham-Crowley, pp. 30-48.

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Case 3. The First Wave (weeks 7-8)
Week 7  
Monday, 5 March
Why the First Wave?
 
Wickham-Crowley, 3-18, 51-91.
   
Wednesday, 7 March
So why didn't they succeed? Part I
  Wickham-Crowley, 92-154.
   
Friday, 9 March
So why didn't they succeed? Part II
  Wickham-Crowley, 154-208.

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Week 8  
Monday, 12 March
What did they Say they Were Doing?
 

Ideologues of the First Wave, e-reserve. And here.

   
Wednesday, 14 March
What did they do?
  Four Days in September.
   
Thursday, 15 March
   
Friday, 16 March
What have you learned so far?
  MIDTERM

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Spring Break, 17 March to 1 April

Case 4. Popular Unity in Chile (weeks 9-10)
Week 9  
Monday, 2 April
Why Popular Unity?
  Background on Chile's Disintegration, e-reserve.
Review Wright, pp. 129-148.
   
Wednesday, 4 April
What did the UP Want?
  Allende Reader, pp. 35-51, 257-285.
   
Friday, 6 April
What did the UP Try to Do?
  Allende Reader, pp. 52-85, 89-115.

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Week 10  
Monday, 9 April
How did things go?
  Allende Reader, pp. 116-155, 176-199.
Wednesday, 11 April
What happened?
 
Allende Reader, pp. 200-241.
Thursday, 12 April
Argument Summaries
 
Argument Summaries are Due. Please Hand them in by 5 pm.
Friday, 13 April
How does Chile fit in to the bigger picture?
  See Machuca. On reserve.

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Case 5. The Second Wave (weeks 11-12)
Week 11  
Monday, 16 April
So if the Democratic Path is Closed ...?
  Utopia Unarmed, pp. 90-128.
Review Wright, 165-185.
   
Wednesday, 18 April
How was the Second Wave Different?
  Wickham-Crowley, 209-230.
   
Friday, 20 April
What explains the Second Wave?
  Wickham-Crowley, 230-262.

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Week 12  
Monday, 23 April
What is Wickham-Crowley's Theory?
  Wickham-Crowley, 263-327.
Wednesday, 25 April
What happened in El Salvador?
  The Truth of El Mazote, e-reserve.
Thursday, 26 April
Introductions are Due. Remember to include a title page and your previous stages.
 

 

Friday, 27 April
What happened in Nicaragua?
  Americas Video.

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Conclusion. After the Fall of Socialism (weeks 13-14)
Week 13  
Monday, 30 April
How did the Left Change?
  Utopia, 129-174.
   
Wednesday, 2 May
How should the Left Change?
  Utopia Unarmed, 267-326.
   
Friday, 4 May
Why have a Left Today?
  Utopia Unarmed, 391-426.

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Week 14  
Monday, 7 May
What Form Has the left Taken? Part I
  First and Fourth Declarations..., e-reserve.
The EZLN, e-reserve.
   
Wednesday, 9 May
What Form Has the left Taken? Part II
 

The Bolivarian Revolution, e-reserves.
The Turn to the Left, blackboard.

Friday, 11 May
Conclusion and Review
   
Friday, 18 May

Final Exam is at 9 am. Final Draft is Due. Remember to include a title page and all your previous drafts.

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