LESSON PLAN

Lesson Plan on Colonial Period

Objectives

As an introductory course based on the vast and complex history, which covers a period of over three centuries, this course aims to:

a) Teach the basics: the basic facts, characters, institutions which constitute the essential factual framework for understanding this region

b) Explore the spatial and temporal elements to identify the unity and diversity of Latin America: if the entire region shares many common features from the colonial legacy, the future development of new States has not always been smooth.

c) Introduce concepts that reflect the specificity of this region on the world stage: if Latin America is considered part of the Third World,

It is without doubt the region's most westernized of the bloc and shares many traditions with European companies and North America, but is not a simple extension of the latter.

Content

1st part: basic definitions and methodological issues

Ch 1. Methodological issues

Names: American Spanish, Iberian, indigenous or Latin?

Special cases: Brazil and the Caribbean. How to study history?

Some hypotheses: the "open veins" and "centralist tradition"

Differences and similarities of national and regional

The players in history, the same as in the West

Periodization: criteria for selection of historical landmarks. Contained basic steps (January 13)

Ch.2. The physical and human geography: climate, soil, natural resources, space and distance.

Links between history and geography Population today: ethnic, cultural and demographic. (20 January)

Part 2: Latin America "traditional": the colonial period to 1880

Chap.3: The colonial legacy.

The hierarchical society based on the criteria of race.

The economy: the complexity of modes of production: feudalism or capitalism?

The colonial administration: centralism "released" to the reforms of the eighteenth century (20 and 27 January)

Ch.4 (1804-1824): The emancipation movement: history and the process

National differences

The "balkanization" of Latin America

Assessment: can we talk about a revolution? (February 3)

Chap.5 (1824-1880): The first decades of independent life and the era of oligarchic power

The slow formation of state structures

Caudillos, civil wars and conflicts between the new countries

The rise of landowners, further worsening the plight of Indians and the gradual abolition of slavery (10 and 17 February)

Part 3: Latin America "modern": 1880 to Today

Ch.6 (1880-1910)

The insertion in the growing global market

Foreign capital and immigration

The growth of exports

The U.S. aggression in the Caribbean region

The birth of new countries: Cuba and Panama. The slow development of a system of political parties (24 February)

Chap.7 (1910-1929): The diversification of society and immigration

Emergence of the proletariat and middle classes

The formation of professional armies

The first challenge facing attempts to "oligarchic order": the Mexican Revolution and Aprismo Peru.

Reform liberalism in Southern Cone countries (March 9)

Chap.8 (1930-1959): The impact of the crisis of 1930 and the Second World War

Attempts at industrialization

The emergence of populist regimes

Women's participation in political life

The growing influence of the United States and the creation of continental institutions (March 23)

Chap.9 (1959-1989): The Cuban revolution and its impact: the growing polarization of political life: the guerrillas and the experience of the Popular Unity government in Chile.

There was an eruption in Central America.

Economy: essays of land reform attempts of common markets and problems of external debt (30 March and 6 April)

Epilogue (1989-present)

Retirement ...