HSP5012 - Latin America: Key Concepts - 2023/24

This course examines, from a global perspective, the historical processes that gave rise to modern Latin America and shaped its diverse societies. Focusing on seminal texts, it explores the intellectual debates that accompanied the building of the nations we know today and provides an insight into the multiple ethnic and cultural traditions that characterise the countries of the region. The course also provides key theoretical and analytical concepts, which are crucial to the study of Latin American cultural history.