| Unit name | From Frontiers to Football: Latin American History 1806-1916 |
|---|---|
| Unit code | HISP20085 |
| Credit points | 20 |
| Level of study | I/5 |
| Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12) |
| Unit director | Professor. Brown |
| Open unit status | Not open |
| Pre-requisites |
None |
| Co-requisites |
None |
| School/department | Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies |
| Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
This unit explores Latin American history from the British invasions of 1806 to the formation of CONMEBOL, the South American football federation, in 1916. It explores the profound changes in Latin American culture and society in the nineteenth century, focusing on the processes of independence, nation-building projects, and the origins of modern institutionalised sport at the beginning of the twentieth century. Themes will include the civilization-barbarism debate, urbanisation, migration and cultural identities. Students will explore 3 key texts in detail, and come to analyse them according to their political and historical contexts. Students will be expected to be proficient in Spanish as source material will be in Spanish.
At the end of this unit students will 1. gain an understanding of the global, international, national and local historical processes that shaped the course of Latin American history in the nineteenth-century; 2. be able to analyse cultural texts and historical events through a historical approach that privileges close reading and historical contextualisation; 3. be able to draw out major themes from Latin American history, comparing chronologically and across the continent. 4. be able to express these skills in advanced written form.
1 weekly lecture and 1 seminar per week.
Two summative 2,000 word essays (50% each) testing ILOs 1-4.
Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities (1983) Matthew Brown, From Frontiers to Football: Latin American History from 1800 to the present (Reaktion, 2014) José Moya, ed., Oxford Handbook of Latin American History (OUP, 2012)
