ARGENTINA IN THE 20th CENTURY

• The course is a semester devoted to the study of Argentina’s history from the end of XIX century up to the 1990s. The underlying themes of our studies will be immigration and national identity, popular movements, the peronist phenomenon, and dictatorship. Students will have one two-hour lecture and one two-hour workshop per week. During the workshop, we will discuss readings and films realted to the historical, social and cultural circumstances of the period introduced that week. The course could be taught in Spanish or English, depending on the Spanish level of students.

 Students will:

• Achieve a good understading of main historical events and processes in Argentina during the last century.
• Analyze historical accountsaccording to principles of methodology of history.
• Enhance their command of oral and written academic Spanish (if the course is taught in Spanish).

• Each lecture will focus on a specific historical period. Students will be responsible for reading on the particular period studied each week and searching extra information on particular points of interest.
• Worshop will focus on the analysis of readings and films, enriched by the information provided in lectures.

Workshop and Seminar: The major assignments will be two essays around themes and concepts introduced in lectures and workshops.

Every week, students will have in-class writing exercises and specific assignments to facilitate and enrich their understanding of different topics.

• If students have problems with any aspect of the program’s contents or activities, it is their responsibility to contact the faculty immediately in order to face difficulties squarely instead of letting them worsen.

• Latin American History: (60 hours total) 4 credits

Week 1
From fin de siècle to the “Centenario”. Journalism, literature and politics. The gaucho, national symbol and the immigration.

Week 2
Immigration as social, political and cultural phenomenon. Anarquism, socialism, radicalism.

Week 3
Democracy at the beginning of the century. The first coup d’état.

Week 4
Social and political antecedents of the peronist movement.
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Week 5
Peronism: evolution and epigone. Other similar Latin American regimes.

Week 6
The role of women in politics.

Week 7
The “revolución libertadora” and the proscription of peronism.

Week 8
Revision. First essay due.

Week 9
The sixties: rebels and iconoclasts.

Week 10
The seventies: the left, revolution and armed struggle. The beginning of a tragedy.

Week 11
“Proceso de Reorganización Nacional”: dictatorship and repression.

Week 12
Social responses to dictatorship. Malvina’s war.

Week 13
The return to democracy: challenges and opportunities.

Week 14
The nineties and globalization.

Week 15
A hundred years of history: revision and conclusions.
Second essay due.

In English
Burns, Bradford, ed. Latin America. Conflict and Creation: A Reader. Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice Hall, 1994.
---. Latin America: A Concise Interpretive History. 6th ed. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1994
Halperin Donghi, Tulio. The Contemporary History of Latin America. Trans. J.C. Chasteen. Durham: Duke University Press, 1993.
Hanke, Lewis and Jane Rausch, eds. People and Issues in Latin American History. New York: M. Wiener Pub., 1990.
Shumway, Nicolas. The Invention of Argentina. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1991.
Yeager, Gertrude M., ed. Confronting Change, Challenging Tradition: Women in Latin American History. Wilmington, Dela.: Scholarly Resources Inc., 1994.

In Spanish
David Rock, John Lynch y otros: Historia Argentina (Alianza, 2002).
Luis Alberto Romero, Breve Historia Contemporánea de la Argentina (Fondo de
Cultura Económica, 1994).
Historia Argentina (Halperín Donghi dir.), 9 tomos (Paidós, 1972-1973 y 2002-2003).
Nueva Historia Argentina (Mirta Z. Lobato dir.), (Editorial Sudamericana, 1998-2001).
Nueva Historia de la Nación Argentina (Academia Nacional de la Historia/Editorial
Planeta, 1999).

Films
El Jefe (1958, dir. Fernando Ayala)
La Patagonia Rebelde (1974, dir. Héctor Olivera)
La Historia Oficial (1985, dir. Luis Puenzo)