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