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High Advanced

This course is designed for students who have completed or tested out of a minimum of five semesters (or seven quarters) of college-level Spanish. However, students must take a placement exam to determine the course level into which they will be able to enroll.

OBJECTIVES
This Course sets out to examine the relations between the United States and Latin America during the nineteeth and twentith centuries. Specific emphasis will be placed on: (1) the resaon why these relations have often been characterized by factors of tension and mistrust and (2) the fact that they constitute a key phase in the development of the system of international capitalism.
The syllabus will be divided into chronological phases, in each the processes and key events affecting these relations being the subject of analysis. Class sessions will also include commentaries on certain of the suggested readings.
By the end of the Course students will be expected to have acquired a structured, contrastively-based awareness of these same Inter-American Relations, therby helping them to understand the key factors affecting the present-day situation within the American continent.

SYLLABUS
Introduction
I. 1825-1890
1.- The Monroe Doctrine and its Historical Contextualization.
2.- The Frontier with Mexico and Manifest Destiny.
3.- Nicaragua.
4.- Cuba and the Slave South.
5.- Pan-Americanism.

Reading Material:
BOLTON, H.E. “The Epic of Greater America”, in HANKE, L. Do the Americas Have a Common History? New York, 1964, pp. 67-104.
SCHOULTZ, L. Beneath the United States. New York, 1998. Caps. 1 y 3.
ZINN, H. A People’s History of the United States. 1492-Present. New York, 1999. pp. 149-169.
BOSCH, J. De Colón a Fidel Castro. Madrid, 1985. Caps. XXI y XXII, pp. 217-273.
MORALES PADR�"N, F. Historia de unas relaciones difíciles. Sevilla, 1987. Cap. 5

II. 1890-1929
6.- Economic Growth, “Big Stick” Policy, and the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine.
7.- Cuba, the Hispanic-U.S. War, and its Consequences.
8.- Panamá and Interventionism in the Caribbean.
9.- Dollar Diplomacy.

Reading Material:
BEMIS, S.F. The Latin American Policy of the United States. New York, 1943. Cap. X, pp. 168-199.
BOSCH, J. De Colón a Fidel Castro. Madrid, 1985. Cap. XXIV, pp. 305-334.
GIL, F.G. Latinoamérica y Estados Unidos... Madrid, 1975. Cap. 4, pp. 85-103.
MECHAM, Ll. The United States Interamerican Security, 1889-1960. Austin, 1961. Cap. III, 48-76.
ZANETTI, O. y GARCÍA, A. United Fruit Co. Un caso del dominio imperialista en Cuba. La Habana, 1976. Cap. II, pp. 46-79.

III. 1929-1945
10.- The Crash of 1929 and New Perspectives for American Diplomacy.
11.- Good-Neighbor Policy and the New Latin American Dictatorships.
12.- Inter-American Relations during World War Two.

Reading Material
CONNELL-SMITH, G. The Inter-American System. New York, 1966. pp. 75-109.
WOOD, B, The Making of the Good Neighbor Policy. New York, 1961, pp. 118-155.
SMITH, Peter H. Talons of the Eagle. Dynamics of U.S.-Latin American Relations. New York-Oxford, 1996. pp. 65-87.
SCHOULTZ, L. Beneath the United States. New York, 1988, pp. 290-315.

IV.1945-1980.
13.- The Post-War Period and its Political Consequences. The Organization of American States.
14.- Contradictions: the Cold War and Repression in Guatemala.
15.- The Cuban Revolution and the Allaince for Progress.
16.- The Hardening of Relations from the 1960s to the 1980s.
17.- The Central American Crisis and the Nicaraguan Revolution.

Reading Material:
TORIELLO, G. Tras la cortina del banano. México, 1976, pp. 63-85.
BLACK, J.K. Sentinels of Empire: The United States and Latin American Militarism. N.Y. 1986.
BENJAMIN, J. The United States and the Origins of Cuban Revolution. Princeton, 1990.
SCHOULTZ, L. Beneath the United States. New York, 1998, pp. 332-348.
KÖNIG, H.-J. “El intervencionismo norteamericano en Iberoamérica”, in M. LUCENA SALMORAL. Historia de Iberoamérica. Madrid, 1988, pp. 453-474.

BIBLIOGRAPHY
BAILEY, Th. A Diplomatic History of American People. New York, 1955.
BEMIS, S.F. The Latin American Policy of the United States. New York, 1943.
CONNELL-SMITH, G. The Inter-American System. Oxford, 1966.
GIL, F.G. Latinoamérica y Estados Unidos. Dominio, cooperación y conflicto. Madrid, 1975.
MORALES PADR�"N, F. Historia de unas relaciones difíciles. Sevilla, 1987.
SCHOULTZ, L. Beneath the United States. Cambridge, 1998.
SMITH, P.H. Talons of the Eagle. Dynamics of U.S.-Latin American Relations. New York-Oxford, 1996
STUART, G. y TIGNER, J.L. Latin America and the United States. Englewood Cliffs, 1955.

ASSESSMENT
Two compulsory exams will be set as the Course develops, the dates of which will be indicated in due time. Likewise, final grading will give positive consideration to regular attendance and to active participation in class sessions.