History 534.04 History of
http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/guy60
Instructor:
Donna Guy
Office: Dulles 210
Telephone: 292-0324
Office
Hours:
T, Th
Description and Objectives:
This course
is designed to introduce students to the history and problems of contemporary
Written Assignments
There will be one final which are
required for all undergraduates. In addition to these assignments there
will be two required papers. The first one will be an essay exploring the
significance of Jeffrey Shumway’s work The Case of the Ugly Suitor. The
essay can deal with a number of themes such as the role of gender (particularly
that of males) in this work, the role of social history
in
Papers should be double-spaced, typed, proofread, and include a bibliography of works consulted as well as footnotes to document quotes and opinions that are not your own. If you do not know how to prepare a term paper, please consult the instructor. The maximum length of the papers excluding footnotes and bibliography, will be 10 pages, double spaced, with pt. 12 font. All topics must be approved by the instructor. All late papers will be penalized unless permission is granted by the instructor. Any plagiarized paper, i.e. papers that quote directly from sources without quotation marks or footnotes and/or those that summarize opinions of others without acknowledging the source in a footnote, will be subject to penalties listed in the University Code of Conduct. How to write a great paper.
Required
Three
books have been ordered for this class and are available at the
bookstore. They are:
Disability Policy: All students with disabilities should speak with Prof. Guy immediately in order to work out potential problems with note taking, reading the assigned books, and taking the exams
Grading policy: Grades will be based upon two papers (25% each), and a final exam (35%) and class participation (15%). Mid terms and finals consist of a combination of short answer identifications of people, places, and events, as well as essay question(s) dealing with the principal issues covered by the books and lectures. To obtain a passing grade, all assignments must be handed in.
EXTRA CREDIT ASSIGNMENTS
Students will be allowed to apply extra credit points (up to 8 points) to paper scores. Students can receive up to 5 extra credit points for well written book reviews. In addition, extra credit can be obtained by reading optional articles (up to 8 points). One extra credit point will be given for a well written analysis of an article, movie, or visiting scholar presentation and up to four points will be given for a book report. Students may rent or attend Latin American films
which offer insights into Argentine
history. Examples of such films are The Official Story, Miss Mary, The Night
of the Pencils, Evita (Argentine and American
versions)
A new way to earn up to 5 extra
credits beyond the 8 points is to give an oral presentation on a topic related
to Argentine history. In the discussion you should try to
find an appropriate web site. Any topic about
Lecture Schedule:
Sept. 20 Introduction to Latin American history
Sept. 25-27 Settlement of the La Plata Region, Bourbon Reforms Link to powerpoint presentation
Required
Start reading Shumway
Optional
Mayo, Carlos A., "Landed but not Powerful: The Colonial Estancieros of Buenos Aires (1750-1810)," HAHR 71:4 (1991): 761-779*
John Lynch, “Intendants and Cabildos in the Viceroyalty of La Plata, 1782-1810,”
Jorge Gelman, “New Perspectives on an Old Problem and the Same Source: The Gaucho and the Rural History of the Colonial Rio de la Plata,”
Guy, Donna J. And Thomas Sheridan, eds. Contested Ground: Comparative Frontiers on the Northern and Southern Edges of the Spanish Empire
Carlos Sampat
Assadourian, El sistema de la economía colonial: El Mercado interior,
regiones y espacio económico.
Carlos Mayo, Estancia y sociedad en la pampa, 1740-1820
Oct.2-4
Optional
Susan Socolow, “Spanish Captives in Indian Societies: Cultural Contact along the Argentine Frontier, 1600-1835”
John Lynch, The Spanish-American Revolutions, 1808-1826 (NY: W.W. Norton & Co., 1973)
Mark Szuchman and Jonathan Brown, eds,, Revolution and
Restoration: The Rearrangement of Power in
Tulio Halperin Donghi, Politics,
Economics and Society in
Oct.9-11 The Rise and Fall of Juan Manuel de Rosas; Sarmiento and the Liberal Era; Link to powerpoint presentation Study Questions
Brown, Ch. 5; John Chasteen, “Violence
for Show, Knife Dueling on a Nineteenth-Century Frontier,”
Continue reading Shumway
Optional
Donald F. Stevens, Based on a True Story, :Latin American History at the Movies, essay on Camila O’Gorman
John Lynch, Argentine Dictator: Juan Manuel de Rosas, 1829-1852. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981).
Ricardo Salvatore, Wandering
Paysanos: State Order and Subaltern Experience in
Miron Burgin, The Economic Aspects of Argentine Federalism
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Oct. 18-20 Gender and The formation of the New Nation Study Questions; Link to powerpoint presentation Movie: Camila
Finish reading Shumway
Optional
Gabriel Negretto, “Rethinking the Legacy of the Liberal State in Latin America: The Cases of Argentina (1853-1916) and Mexico (1857-1910)”
Allison Williams Bunkley, Life of Sarmiento (Princeton: Princeton U. Press, 1952)
Tulio Halperín Donghi, ed., Sarmiento, Author of a Nation (Berkeley, U. of California Press, 1994)
Francine Masiello, Between Civilization and Barbarism: Women,
Nation and Literary Culture in Modern
Donna J. Guy, Argentine Sugar Politics: Tucumán and the Generation of Eighty
Oct.
23-25
Immigration and the Growth of Buenos Aires, The Formation of Modern Political
Parties Study
Questions
Link to powerpoint presentation
Link to powerpoint Link to powerpoint
James R. Scobie, “Buenos Aires as a Commercial-Bureaucratic City, 1880-1910, Characteristics of a City’s Orientation”
Paper on Shumway due Oct. 25
Optional
Stephanie Bower, “Political and Socioeconomic Elites: The Encounter of Provincials with Porteños in Fin-de-Siècle Buenos Aires”
Eduardo Zimmerman, “Racial Ideas and Social Reform: Argentina 1890-1916”
David Rock, The Rise of the Argentine Radical Party (the Unión Cívica Radical, 1891-1916
James R. Scobie,
José Moya,
Cousins and Strangers in
Samuel Baily, Immigrants in the Lands of Promise:
Eduardo Zimmerman, Los liberales reformistas
Oct. 30-Nov. 1 The Demise of Democracy, Feminism and Social Reform Link to powerpoint presentation Link to powerpoint presentation
Start reading Guy
Optional
Nicolas Shumway, The Invention of
Ezequiel Martínez Estrada,
Xray of the
Sandra McGee Deutsch and Ronald Dolkart, eds.The Argentine Right
Adelman, Jeremy, Essays in Argentine Labour History, 1870-1930
Nov.6- 8 Peronism: study question Video: The Restless Grave LINK TO PWERPOINT
Optional reading
Marysa Navarro, “Evita and the Crisis of 17 October 1945”
Page, Joseph, Perón a Biography, Ch. 3-4*
Marta Savigliano, “Evita: The Globalization of a Myth”
J.M. Taylor, Eva Perón: Myths of a Woman
Tomás Eloy Martínez,
Santa Evita
Nicholas Fraser and
Maryssa Navarro, Eva Perón
Joseph Page, Juan Peron: A Biography
Nov. 13-15 Military-Civilian Conflict in the Post-Perón Era, The Rise of Terrorism Link to
powerpoint presentation; Study Questions
Nov. 20 Dirty Wars and their Outcome Study Questions, Link to powerpoint presentation
Second Paper Due
Nov.
27-29 The Costs of Civil War and Redemocratization Study
Questions; Link
to powerpoint Link
to powerpoint
TAKE HOME FINAL
EXAM DUE Monday, December 3
History of
The Constitution of
http://www.georgetown.edu/pdba/Constitutions/Argentina/arg1860.html
Argentine art (in
English)
http://universes-in-universe.de/america/arg/english.htm
Argentine
Presidents
http://lanic.utexas.edu/project/arl/pm/sample2/argentin/index.html
Tango history http://www.argentour.com/tangoi.html
Spanish link to Argentine history http://www.historiadelpais.com.ar/
Links to the history of
Eva Perón http://www.evitaperon.org/Principal.htm