HIST 0279 - Latin American Revolutions

Credits: 3

An exploration of a variety of Latin American revolutions from independence in the early 1800’s to the present to understand how evolutionary movement emerge, why people choose to participate in those movements, and how counter-revolutions emerge. This course examines how factors like race, class, gender, and ethnicity impact revolutionary movements. Case studies will be drawn from a variety of Latin American contexts, such as Haiti, Mexico, Cuba and Nicaragua, so that students may look comparatively at this divers and complex region.

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Westfield State University

HIST 0279 - Latin American Revolutions