Programme

The course aims to provide the knowledge for understanding the historical and current Latin America, as well as indicate the access to the main sources of study. Although with a diachronic character, treating the main events and dealing with the key issues of Latin American history from the sixteenth to the twentieth century, most of the lessons are on the formative historical period from the cultural point of view of the continent, XVI-XVIII centuries.

Core Documentation

The course is composed by two part: general part; monographic part.
General part: Carmagnani, M., L’altro Occidente. L’America Latina dall’invasione europea al nuovo millennio, Torino, Einaudi, 2003, or following editions.(This book is out of print; a photocopy can be requested from the bookstore in front of Via Ostiense 234) plus the teaching materials presented in class.
Or:
Williamson, E., The Penguin History of Latin America, London, Penguin Books, 2010.
Or:
Malamud, C., Historia de América, Madrid, Alianza editorial, 2010.
Monographic part. One of the following books:
-Guarnieri Calò Carducci, L., Idolatria e identità creola. Le cronache andine tra Cinquecento e Seicento, Roma, Viella, 2007.
-Guarnieri Calò Carducci, L., Il Perù nella storia e nella storiografia, Roma, Bulzoni, 2013.
-Livi Bacci, M., Conquista. La distruzione degli indios americani, Roma, Carocci, 2013.
-Klein, H., Il commercio atlantico degli schiavi, Roma, Carocci, 2014.
-Lazzari, M. I colori della malafede. Afromessicani, Inquisizione e razza in Nuova Spagna (1570-1650), Roma, Viella, 2023.

Attendance

Attendance is free

Type of evaluation

Oral exam