Recent Historiographical Trends in teh Study of Modern Latin America

FAIN: FS-10800-78

John J. Johnson
Stanford University (Stanford, CA 94305-2004)

To examine current historiographical scholarship and the social-economic and political forces which it suggests have shaped/are shaping the region's evolutionary processes. Participants will write on twentieth century topics. Topics to be considered: 1) The Independence Era, 2) Race and Class (or, Regionalism in Brazil), 3) Nationalism, Populism and Corporatism, 4) Military-Civilian Relations, 5) Property and Politics in the Countryside, 6) Consequences of Rapid Urbanization, 7) Quantification in Theory and Practice, and 8) Latin America in World Affairs.