Resources

Class Notes

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Introduction-Power Point Slides
Haitian Revolution

Web

For a more complete list of web resources, visit the Contemporary Latin American Links page

On using the internet for reading & writing history-fine tips from historian R. Slatta--Links to some great sites, including "Rules of Thumb for Online Research" and Effective Web-searching-K. Ciccone, NCSU

Univ. Texas Latin America Network Information Center (LANIC), the principal clearing house on Latin American information on the Net, http://lanic.utexas.edu

What is a primary source? See Yale University Library Primary Sources Research Page: URL: www.library.yale.edu/ref/err/primsrcs.htm

Timeline for Modern Latin America (1800-1999)- Prof. R. Slatta University of Texas-Austin, LANIC -- Starting point for 'net information on Latin America, http://courses.ncsu.edu/classes/hi300001/hi216time.htm

Timeline: US Intervention in Latin America & the Caribbean, http://kuhttp.cc.ukans.edu/cwis/organizations/las/interven.html

University of Texas-Austin, Maps -- Latin America-- Perry Castaņeda Library, http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/americas.html

World Atlas & Maps--includes maps by country with other country data (population, etc.), http://geography.miningco.com/library/maps/blindex.htm

National Security Archives -- Declassified US Policy Documents from the 1950s->, including "briefing books" on Guatemala, Chile, the Cuban Missile Crisis, http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/

Latin American Statistics: http://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/index.html

Left-wing Lingo: An explanation of 18th and 19th c. left political ideologies by the Democratic Socialists of America http://www.dsausa.org/archive/Docs/Lingo.html

Latin America on the Net/Latinoamerica en la red, an extremely useful web site which includes, among other things, many of the full Constitutions of Latin American states as well as official statistics. http://www.latinworld.com/government/

Prof. Steven Volk Resources on Latin America, http://www.oberlin.edu/~svolk/latinam.htm

Prof. Aldo Lauria-Santiago, Research Resources on Latin America, http://sterling.holycross.edu/departments/history/alauria/advanced/index.htm Which includes a page linking to various statistical databases: http://sterling.holycross.edu/departments/history/alauria/advanced/data.htm

Latin America Video Archive (LAVA) http://www.lavavideo.org/

Electronic Resources on Latino/Hispanic Studies, http://lib.nmsu.edu/subject/bord/latino.html

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Library

Library Resources

Lucy Scribner Library, http://www.skidmore.edu/irc/library/
Skidmore Library Video Catalog, http://www/irc/library/videos/A.htm
Databases Relevant to the Study of History available at the Scribner Library Databases Page: http://www.skidmore.edu/irc/library/research/databases.htm

For Latin America

Hispanic-American Periodicals Index, http://hapi.gseis.ucla.edu/
Handbook of Latin American Studies, http://lcweb2.loc.gov/hlas/hlashome.html

For History

Historical Abstracts, http://sb1.abc-clio.com:81/
Social Sciences Abstracts, http://newfirstsearch.oclc.org/WebZ/FSPrefs?entityjsdetect=:javascript=true:screensize=large:sessionid=sp02sw13-61587-cfhckni5-i0v5l1:entitypagenum=1:0
J-Stor (on-line scholarly articles, including the American Historical Review, to 1994), http://www.jstor.org/jstor/
Project Muse (variety of scholarly journals), http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/index.html
WorldCat, http://newfirstsearch.oclc.org/WebZ/FSPrefs?entityjsdetect=:javascript=true:screensize=large:sessionid=sp03sw05-35389-cfhcil4t-mnialm:entitypagenum=1:0
Journals & Newspapers, http://www.skidmore.edu/irc/library/research/journals/index.htm

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Bibliography

Required Books

John Chasteen, Born in Blood & Fire (Oxford, 2000)

Daniel James, Doña María's Story (UNC 2001)

Ariel Dorfman, Death & the Maiden (Penguin 1994).

Other Required Readings

PRIMARY SOURCES
Lucas Alamán, "The Cause of the Revolutions," in John Lynch, ed., Latin American Revolutions, 1808-1826 (Norman: U. of Oklahoma Press, 1994), pp 321-327.

Miguel Angel Asturias, Guatemalan Sociology

Juan Bautista Alberdi, "Points of Departure for the political organization of the Republic of Argentina," in Woodward, ed., Positivism in Latin America, 1850-1900

Simón Bolívar, "The Angostura Discourse," "The Jamaican Letter"

Julio Cortázar, "New Nicaragua," Nicaraguan Sketches, K. Weaver, trans. (New York: Norton) .35-55

Domitila Barrios de Chungara, Let Me Speak! (New York: New Monthly Press, 1978), 104-112

Ariel Dorfman & Armand Matellart, "How to Read Donald Duck" (1971)

Brian Loveman & Thomas M. Davies, Jr., The Politics of Anti-Politics: The Militaryin Latin America 2nd ed. (Lincoln: U. of Nebraska Press, 1989), 193-211 (Argentina); 238-249 (Chile)

José Martí, "Our America," in Our America, Foner, ed. (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1977)

Octavio Paz, "Mexico and the United States," in Labyrinth of Solitude (Various Editions available)

Evita Perón, In My Own Words (New York: The New Press, 1996)

Thomas F. Reed & Karen Brandow, The Sky Never Changes: Testimonies from the Guatemalan Labor Movement (Ithaca, NY: Cornell U. Press, 1996), "Camila"

Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Life in the Argentine Republic in the Days of the Tyrants, or civilization and Barbarism (New York: Collier Books, 1961), pp. 59-81,150-159.

Luis Valcárcel, "Tempest in the Andes," in Starn, et. al., eds., The Peru Reader (Durham: Duke U. Press, 1995), 218-222.

José Vasconcelos, A Cosmic Race

ARTICLES & BOOK CHAPTERS
Sonia E. Alvarez, "Militant Mothers & Insurgent Daughters: Women in the Opposition to Authoritarian Rule" in Engendering Democracy in Brazil: Women's Movements in Transition Politics (Princeton U. Press, 1990), 57-82.

Jon Lee Anderson, "The Power of García Márquez: Can the Noble Prize-winning novelist rescue Colombia?"; The New Yorker, September 27, 1999.

Casandra Badillo, "Only My Hairdresser Knows for Sure: Stories of Race, Hair & Gender," NACLA 34:6 (May/June 2001), 35-37.

Silvia T. Bozutsky, "The Pinochet Regime: Crisis & Consolidation" in Malloy & Seligson, eds, Authoritarians & Democrats: Regime Transition in Latin America (U Pittsburgh Press), 67-89.

Fernando Cardoso & Enzo Faletto, Chapter 6, Dependency & Development in Latin America (UC Press, 1979) (orig. 1971).

Emilia Viotti da Costa, The Brazilian Empire: Myths & Histories (Chicago: the Dorsey Press, 1985), 1-23, 53-77.

Jordana Dym, "Napoleon & the Americas," Napoleonic Europe: A Reference, M. E. Sharpe Publishers. Forthcoming 2004.

William Finnegan, "Letter from Bolivia: Leasing the Rain," The New Yorker, April 8, 2002, 43-53.

David Howard, "Dominican Republic Spurns Haitian Migrants…" NACLA 35: 2 (September/October 2001), 24-28

Asuncion Lavrin, "Reform of the Civil Codes: The Pursuit of Legal Equality," in Women, Feminism, and Social Change in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay, 1890-1940 (U. of Nebraska Press, 1995).

Deborah Levenson Estrada, "The Loneliness of Working Class Feminism: Women in the "Male World" of Labor Unions, Guatemala" in J. French & D. James, eds, Gendered Worlds of Latin American Women Workers: From Household & Factory to Union Hall &Ballot Box (Duke U. Press, 1997).

John Lynch, "Bolivar & the Caudillos," Hispanic American Historical Review 63:1 (1983): 3-35.

Fanni Muñoz Cabrejo, "The New Order: Diversions & Modernization in Turn-of-the-Century Lima," William H. Beezley & Linda A. Curcio-Nagy, eds., Popular Culture: An Introduction (Scholarly Resources Press, 2000).

Jaime E. Rodríguez O., "The Constitution of 1824 & the Formation of the Mexican State," in Jaime E. Rodríguez O., ed., The Origins of Mexican National Politics, 1808-1847 (Scholarly Resources Press, 1997).

Mona Rosendahl, Ch. 5, Inside the Revolution: Everyday Life in Socialist Cuba (Cornell U. Press, 19xx), 107-155)

Anton Rosenthal, "The Arrival of the Electric Streetcar and the Conflict over Progress in Early Twentieth-Century Montevideo," Journal of Latin American Studies, 27:2 (1995): 319-341.

Nancy Leys Stepan, 'The Hour of Eugenics': Race, Gender & Nation in Latin America (Cornell U. Press, 1991), 135-70

Sheila S. Walker, "Africanity vs. Blackness: Race, Class & Culture in Brazil," NACLA 35: 6 (May/June 2002), 16-21.

Kay B. Warren, "Transforming Memories & Histories: The Meanings of Ethnic Resurgence for Mayan Indians," in Alfred Stepan, ed., Americas (Oxford University Press, 1992), pp. 189-219.

 

U.N. Reports

Latin America Women: http://www.cddc.vt.edu/feminism/mex.html

Peacekeeping:

MINUGUA (Guatemala) http://www.un.org/Depts/minugua/INDEX.htm and http://www.un.org:80/Depts/DPKO/Missions/minugua.htm MICIVIH,

UNTMIH, etc (Haiti) http://www.un.org/Depts/DPKO/Missions/micivih.htm, http://www.un.org/Depts/DPKO/Missions/untmih.htm, http://www.un.org/Depts/DPKO/Missions/unsmih.htm

UNOSAL (El Salvador) http://www.un.org/Depts/DPKO/Missions/onusal.htm UN

Peacekeeping (UN) Bibliography: http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/pathfind/security/0201.htm Specific conflicts Bibliography: http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/pathfind/security/0202.htm

Supplementary Reading:An Agenda for Peace (1992), http://www.un.org/Docs/SG/agpeace.html and its supplement, http://www.un.org/Docs/SG/agsupp.html (1995)

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ADDITIONAL READINGS ON NATION/ NATIONALISM:

Theoretical Background:

Benedict Anderson, The Imagined Community, rev. (New York: Verso), 1991. Preface, Ch. 1-6 (to pg. 111).

Article set from Geoff Eley and Ronald Grigor Suny, Becoming National (NY: Oxford), 1996: Ernest Renan, "What is a Nation?";

Etienne Balibar, "The Nation Form: History and Ideology;" Prasenjit Duara, "Historicising National Identity or Who Imagines What and When," pp. 42-55; 132-149; 151-177.

For a very interesting discussion in 1996 of Anderson's Imagined Communities at the National Humanities Center http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us:8080/sawyer/octmeet.htm

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