History 308--syllabus
NOTE: This is for reference only, and is subject to change. For each class's assignment, you should consult the course schedule. This syllabus does not contain a listing of any document assignments, nor does it have the page numbers from the sourcebook.
1. Introduction
2. The American Revolution in Hemispheric Affairs
Peggy Liss, Atlantic Empires, pp. 26-47, 105-126.
3. The Latin American Revolutions in Hemispheric Affairs
Peggy Liss, Atlantic Empires, pp. 172-221.
4. Nationalism and Hemispheric Affairs
Thomas Hietala, Manifest Design, pp. 173-254.
5. The International Scramble for the Caribbean
Luis Martinez-Fernandez, Torn between Empires, pp. GET.
6. Slavery and Inter-American Relations (virtual session)
"Imperialism at Home and Abroad."
7. South America and the Atlantic World
Readings TBA
8. The Anti-Expansionist Consensus
Joseph Smith, Illusions of Conflict, pp. 49-80.
Luis Martinez-Fernandez, Torn between Empires, pp. GET.
9. The Cuban Revolution and Hemispheric Affairs
Perez, Cuba Under the Platt Amendment, pp. GET
10. Great Powers and the Western Hemisphere
Emily Rosenberg, pp. 31-68.
Joseph Smith, Unequal Giants, pp. 35-66.
11. The Progressive Consensus
Brenda Gayle Plummer, Haiti and the Great Powers, pp. 140-179.
12. The Mexican Revolution and Hemispheric Affairs (Virtual Session)
Friedrich Katz, Secret War for Mexico, pp. 3-49, 92-119.
13. Wilsonianism and Latin America
Katz, Secret War for Mexico, pp. 298-327, 511-526.
14. Midterm
15. Reordering Empire
Linda Hall, Oil, Banks, and Politics, pp. 11-59.
Hans Schmidt, The U.S. Occupation of Haiti, pp. 108-134.
16. Crossroads of Empire
TBA
17. Good Neighbor Policy (virtual session)
"Anti-Imperialism and the Good Neighbour Policy."
Stanley Hilton, Brazil and the Great Powers, pp. 3-38.
18. World War II and Hemispheric Affairs
Stanley Hilton, Brazil and the Great Powers, pp. 168-211.
Ernest May, "Argentina," in Akira Iriye, ed., Rethinking International Relations, pp. 54-85.
19. A Hemisphere in Transition
Piero Gleijeses, Shattered Hope, pp. 85-133.
20. The Guatemalan Revolution and Hemispheric Affairs
Gleijeses, Shattered Hope, pp. 134-148, 223-278.
21. The Cuban Missile Crisis
Ernest May and Philip Zelikow, The Kennedy Tapes, pp. TBA.
22. The Rise and Fall of the Alliance for Progress (virtual session)
"Constitutionalism at Home and Abroad."
Stephen Rabe, The Most Dangerous Area in the World, pp. 148-173.
23. 1964
web readings
24. Dealing with Dictators
Lars Schoultz, Human Rights and U.S. Policy toward Latin America, pp. 109-134, 168-211.
25. The World of Ronald Reagan
John Coatsworth, The United States and Central America, pp. 163-206.
Thomas Carothers, In the Name of Democracy, pp. 237-262.
26. Inter-American Relations in the 1990s
web readings
27. Contemporary Inter-American Relations
web readings
28. Conclusion