HIST 432 — Latin America since the Haitian Revolution
History · University of Ghana
This course will examine the era of the revolutions in Latin America: Haiti, Venezuela, Buenos Aires, military achievements and political failures of San Martin and Bolivar, independence of Mexico, conservatism of the Latin American Independence movement. 19th century Mexican dictators; the revolution of 1910, British economic dominations, U.S. interference, the banana republics of Middle America, the Venezuelan oil industry and socialist and capitalist industrialization. It will also examine Monarchic government in independent Brazil, the rise of the coffee industry; the growth of industrial cities, Argentina: the agricultural basis of prosperity, landowners and wage-earners and the significance of Peron
- Credits
- 3
- Level
- Level 400
- Semester
- Semester Two
Other courses on this programme
- HIST 111 — Earliest Civilizations
- HIST 112 — Selected Topics in World History
- HIST 421 — Aspects of Intellectual History from 1500 to the Enlightenment
- HIST 422 — Modern Trends in Intellectual History
- HIST 423 — History of Science and Technology up to the Industrial Revolution.
- HIST 424 — History of Science & Technology since the Industrial Revolution
- HIST 425 — History of Political thought up to St. Augustine
- HIST 426 — History of Political Thought since St. Augustine
- HIST 427 — Colonial Rule and African Response: Partition or Pacification
- HIST 428 — Colonial Rule and African Response: Nationalism and Independence
- HIST 429 — History of Latin America
- HIST 433 — History of Modern Russia & U.S.A: 1700-1860
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Start freeCourse details from University of Ghana Volume 2 Handbook for the Bachelor's Degree: Course Descriptions for Programmes in the Humanities (2017).