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Modern Latin America, 1808-Present: Revolution, Dictatorship, Democracy
- Instructor
- Prof. Jeffrey S. Ravel
- Term
- Spring 2005
- Level
- Undergraduate
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- 1 reading · 25 other files · 5 web pages
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About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 21H.802 Modern Latin America, 1808-Present: Revolution, Dictatorship, Democracy, Spring 2005, Prof. Jeffrey S. Ravel — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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- Spring 2010, Jeffrey Ravel Download
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- Final Exam Questions (802final.pdf) Download
- First Homework Assignment: One Hundred Years of Solitude (802hw1.pdf) Download
- Second Homework Assignment: The Independence Movements, 1808-1830 (802hw2.pdf) Download
- Third Homework Assignment: The Mexican Revolution (802hw3.pdf) Download
- Fourth Homework Assignment: Military Coups and Cuba (802hw4.pdf) Download
- Fifth Homework Assignment: The Consolidation of Castro's Revolution (802hw5.pdf) Download
- Sixth Homework Assignment: Chile and Nicaragua in the 1970s and 1980s (802hw6.pdf) Download
- Guidelines for Homework Assignments (802hwguide.pdf) Download
- First Paper Topics (802paper1.pdf) Download
- Second Paper Topics (802paper2.pdf) Download
- Editing Suggestions (editing.pdf) Download
Course outline
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Lecture 2: Social and Political Democratization: Argentina, 1880 to 1930 (and some tangos)
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Lecture 3: The Mexican Revolution and its Aftermath
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Lecture 4: Authoritarian Populism in Brazil: 1930-1964
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Lecture 5: The “Browning and Blackening” of Latin American Ideology: Mestizaje and Luso-Tropicalism (2 hours only)
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Lecture 6: The Haitian Revolution, 1791-1804, and its Aftermath
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Lecture 7: The U.S. and Latin America, to 1959
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Lecture 8: The Cuban Revolution
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Lecture 9: Class Presentations
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Lecture 10: Class Presentations (cont.)
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Lecture 11: The Southern Cone After the Cuban Revolution: Coups, Military Dictatorships, and the Legacy of Torture
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Lecture 12: Women, Gender, and Feminism in Twentieth-Century Latin America
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Lecture 13: Latin American Identity at the Outset of the Twenty-First Century: Politics, Economics, Religion
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Lecture 14: Final Exam
MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. Jeffrey S. Ravel, 21H.802 Modern Latin America, 1808-Present: Revolution, Dictatorship, Democracy, Spring 2005.
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