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Week 8: Signs of Crisis in a Gilded Age
This topic was building off last weeks material about the beginning of modernity in Latin America. Dawson describes this period of modernity in Latin America as the “gilded” age instead of “golden” alluding to the many problems that the region faced. With modernity and progress came a lot of regress as well, or as Jon…
Week 7: The Export Boom as Modernity
This week encompassed the struggles for freedom and citizenship rights. For Latin America, modernity was a dichotomy between emancipation/enlightenment versus more injustice and prejudice. Emancipation was a long process that certainly did not solve all of the region’s problems. All of a sudden there was rapid development, expansion of industries, and urbanization. There was a…
Week 2: The Meeting of two Worlds
This week was a great further introduction to the course. The content covered Columbus stumbling upon Latin America and the interaction between the new and old world through various texts. I found it was interesting how Jon talked about 1494 AKA the “first discovery of Latin America” being a “mythical date”. In school, we learned…
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