19th Century Latin America

This course examines the relationship between methodology and empirical conclusions and how scholars’ shifting intellectual and political agendas have led them to integrate different disciplinary approaches into the study of Latin America. First, the course will analyze articles published by the American Historical Review on 19th-century Latin America to ask what makes Latin America exciting for other area studies. Then, the course will examine monographs centered on independence and popular participation in politics, nation and nationalism, gender, print culture, abolition and abolitionism.