Latin American History

The purpose of the course is to illustrate the complex history of Latin America since the end of the Ancien Régime to the present day, highlighting the main processes in social, cultural, political and economic institutions of the nineteenth and twentieth century and their connections with the international context.

The course aims to provide students with the tools to understand, describe and to interpret the political, institutional, economical and social dynamics of Latin America nowadays and with the ability to express clearly and in a correct terminology concepts/notions /institutions.