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History 308
The United States and the Western Hemisphere
Fall 2006
KC Johnson
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Inter-American
relations from the Treaty of Utrecht (1713) until the
present day.
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Readings:
Books are available
for purchase at Shakespeare Bookstore.
Documents and maps are all accessible through the class website.
Journal articles will be supplied electronically.
Requirements:
- Exams (midterm on October 23,
final TBA): 45%
- Group Presentation (with paper on
presentation topic): 30% (Description
below)
- Quizzes (six, based on reading,
with the lowest grade dropped): 15%
- Participation: 10%
Schedule:
August 30: Introduction
September 4:
No classes--Labor Day
September 6: The Utrecht System
September 11: The Revolutionary Era
September 13: No
class--change of schedule
September 18: Continental Expansionism
September 20: The International
Scramble for the Caribbean
- Luis Martinez-Fernandez, "Caudillos,
Annexationism, and the Rivalry between Empires in the Dominican
Republic, 1844-1874," Diplomatic History, Vol. 17,
pp.571-597.
Clayton-Bulwer Treaty, 1850
Senator John Hale (Free Soil-New Hampshire) criticizes US
interventionism in Mexico, 1853
Ostend Manifesto, 1854
September 25: Buchanan, Lincoln, and
the Era of Extremes
September 27: The Battle over
Expansionism
October 3:
Progressivism and
Hemispheric Affairs
October 4: Wilsonianism
October 9: No classes--Columbus Day
October 11: Reordering Empire
October 16: Crossroads of Empire
October 18: The Depression and
Hemispheric Affairs
October 23:
Midterm
October 25:
October 30: World War II Comes
to the Western Hemisphere
November 1:
The Cold War Order
- Piero Gleijeses, "The Agrarian Reform of
Jacobo Arbenz," Journal of Latin American Studies, Vol.
21, No. 3 (Oct. 1989), pp. 453-480.
Rio Conference, 1947
The CIA
defines assassination, 1953
Caracas declaration, 1954
November 6:
The United States and Castro
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Piero Gleijeses, "Ships in
the Night: The CIA, the White House and the Bay of Pigs,"
Journal of Latin American Studies, Vol. 27, No. 1 (Feb.
1995), pp. 1-42.
Stephen Rabe, "The Caribbean Triangle: Betancourt, Castro, and
Trujillo and U.S. Foreign Policy, 1958-1963," Diplomatic
History, Vol. 20, pp. 55-78.
November 8: LBJ and the Western
Hemisphere
- Alan McPherson, "Courts of World Opinion:
Trying the Panama Flag Riots of 1964," Diplomatic History,
Vol. 28, pp. 83-112.
November 13:
No Reading
November 15: Dealing with Dictators
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Investigatory
report, the United States and Chile, Senate committee headed
by Frank Church (D-Idaho)
Documents:
- Meeting of the "40 Committee,"
9 Sept. 1970
- Henry Kissinger, memo to the
President,
17 Sept. 1970
- CIA on Chilean coup plotting,
16 Oct. 1970
- NSC meeting on Chile,
6 Nov. 1970
- U.S. Navy station, Valparaiso, Chile,
report,
1 Oct. 1973
- State Department memo, Chilean
executions,
20 Nov. 1973
- NSC memorandum,
1 July 1975
November 20: Human Rights Diplomacy and
Inter-American Relations
- David Schmitz and Vanessa Walker, "Jimmy
Carter and the Foreign Policy of Human Rights: The Development
of a Post-Cold War Foreign Policy," Diplomatic History,
Vol. 28, pp. 113-143.
November 22: No
classes--Thanksgiving Break
November 27:
Reaganism
- Mervyn Bain, "Cuba–Soviet Relations in
the Gorbachev Era," Journal of Latin American Studies,
Volume 37, pp. 769-791.
Iran-contra affair
Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh, "Concluding
Observations," Iran-contra report
November 29: The Clinton Years
December 6: Cuba readings
December 11: Briefing Book
Items:
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2,
3, 4,
5,
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