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HIST 1932: Fictions of Adultery: from Flaubert to Machado de Assis

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Professor Sidney Chalhoub. This course seeks to analyze the ways in which Machado de Assis, the most important Brazilian novelist of all times, appropriated the European tradition of the novel of adultery. In doing so, he sought to discuss literary models...

HIST 1032: A History of Brazil, from Independence to the Present

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Professor Sidney Chalhoub. This course will analyze major themes in the social and political history of Brazil from Independence (1822) to the present. Themes to be addressed are the following: Independence, colonial legacies and national identity; state...

HIST 1913: Dirty Wars, Peace Processes, and the Politics of History in Latin America

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Professor Kirsten Weld. Latin America's "dirty wars" generated intense struggles over historical memory. Course focuses on Chile, Argentina, El Salvador, and Guatemala, and comparatively examines how societies reckon with bloody recent pasts that are...

HIST 1511: Latin America and the United States

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Professor Kirsten Weld. Surveys the complex, mutually constitutive, and often thorny relationship - characterized by suspicion and antagonism, but also by fascination and desire - between the United States and the diverse republics south of the Rio Grande...

AFRAMER 199X and HIST 1937: Social Revolutions in Latin America

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Prof. Alejandro de la Fuente. Cross-listed with African & African American Studies. This course seeks to explain why social revolutions have taken place in Latin America and analyzes their impact on the region. The objective is for students to gain a...

HIST 2525A: Administrating Differences in Latin America: Historical Approaches

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Professors Tamar Herzog and Alejandro de la Fuente. The Latin American History Seminar and Workshop is a yearlong research seminar and workshop that meets every other week to study a central question in Latin American history (in the fall) and provide...

HIST 2485: European Legal History Workshop

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Professor Tamar Herzog. Offered jointly with the Harvard Law School, this workshop will examine some of the most innovative research in European Legal history, conducted by both historians and legal scholars. Classes will alternate between in-group...

HIST 1520: Colonial Latin America

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Professor Tamar Herzog. This course is an introductory survey of colonial Latin American history, spanning the sixteenth to the early nineteenth century. Organized chronologically and thematically, it will examine developments in Spanish and Portuguese...