HST380.13 Europe and the United States in the International System (at UAM)

Open only to students accepted to the special program Madrid Center & Liberal Arts in Spanish at UAM. 

Taught in Spanish. Topics covered include:

1. The international image and position of Europe and the United States in the contemporary world.
2. The Eurocentrism of the international system (I): the evolution of the European Concert and relations in the Atlantic
3. The Eurocentrism of the international system (II): the colonial expansion and imperialism
4. The impact of World War I and the design of an international Euro-American order
5. The push for homogeneity in the crisis during the period between wars
6. The collapse of Europe and the new cartography of power: from the hot war to the cold war
7. The theater of the Cold War
8. Europe and the United States before the processes of decolonization and the North-South dialectic
9. Rethinking the new world and living in the international (dis)order: Europeans and North Americans during the turn of the 21st century

Meets with SPA 380.13.

(19036, Europa y los Estados Unidos en el Sistema Internacional)

Open only to students accepted to the special program Madrid Center & Liberal Arts in Spanish at UAM. 

Taught in Spanish. This course covers the political international, economic, cultural and social aspects of the history of Latin America. Topics include:

• Latin America in the present time.
• National security coups and dictatorships in the Southern Cone. Civil Wars and guerillas in Central America. The Sandinista Revolution.
• Latin America and the Second Cold War.
• The Lost Decade. Political transitions, democratic change and social crisis.
• Opening, neo-liberalism and economic reforms. Washington’s consensus and the model for development. Argentina and Peru.
• Post-Cold War Latin America. Peace processes in Central America. Open integration and regionalism.
• Artistic culture and creation in Latin America Cuba. The survival of the revolution.
• Social movements and citizen construction.
• The new Left. Political models and processes. Neo-populism (Venezuela, Ecuador), multinational state (Bolivia), democratic depth (Brazil, Uruguay, Chile). The Mexican reality.
• Latin America in the Global Era. Identity and Bicentennial. Brazil as an emerging power.

Meets with LAS 380.1.

(16949, América Latina Actual (desde 1973))

Open only to students accepted to the special program Madrid Center & Liberal Arts in Spanish at UAM. 

Taught in Spanish. This course studies sexual differences as constructed in modern Western history between the 16th and 17th centuries, in relation to social, economic, cultural and political changes of the time. From the perspectives opened by new historiographical trends, particularly women’s history and cultural history, it takes a modern approach that addresses the complexity and diversity of experiences and the interaction between context and individual and collective strategies.

(19027, Historia y Género en la Época Moderna)

Open only to students accepted to the special program Madrid Center & Liberal Arts in Spanish at UAM. 

Taught in Spanish. Topics of this course include:

• World War I
• The global economy during the period between wars
• Social and cultural transformations
• The Russian revolution and the communist movement
• The democratic states: Dynamic politics and corporatism
• Fascism and Authoritarianism
• Construction of the State and anti-imperialism in the peripheries
• The crisis of the Restoration and Dictatorship of Primo de Rivera
• The Second Republic and the Civil War
• Origins and characteristics of World War II

(16892, Historia Contemporánea III)

Open only to students accepted to the special program Madrid Center & Liberal Arts in Spanish at UAM. 

Taught in Spanish. Topics include:

History of the East and Egypt

• Introduction: Sources, geographical context and chronology
• Near East and Egypt to the late 3rd millennium BCE: Predynastic and Old Kingdom Egypt, Sumer, Akkad, Ebla and Ur III
• The first half of the 2nd millennium BCE in the East and Egypt: The Middle Kingdom in Egypt
• The second half of the 2nd millennium BCE in the East and Egypt: The Egyptian New Kingdom, the kingdom of Mitanni, Hittite New Kingdom, Assyrian Middle Kingdom and Babylonian house
• The First millennium in the Middle East and Egypt: Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian kingdoms

History of Greece

• Environment and culture of the Mediterranean
• The beginnings of Greek civilization: Crete and the Mycenaean world
• Greece in the Dark Ages
• Archaic Greece
• The splendor of Greek civilization: the 5th century BCE
• Greece in the 4th century BCE: the rise of Macedonia

(19013, Historia de Grecia Antigua)

Open only to students accepted to the special program Madrid Center & Liberal Arts in Spanish at UAM. 

Taught in Spanish.

Students will gain a basic knowledge of archaeological techniques and their application to the prehistory and early history. Topics include:

• Origin and chronology of human settlement in the Iberian Peninsula, habitat, livelihood strategies and land occupation of Pre-Neanderthals and Neanderthals
• Post-glacial climate and environmental changes during the Epipaleolithic and Mesolithic Eras
• Origins of farming during the Neolithic Era
• The Bronze Age’s consolidation of metallurgy, trade and information
• The first complex societies of the Chalcolithic Era
• The Late Bronze and Early Iron Age
• Ethic and non-Iberian groups of the Second Iron Age

(16889, Prehistoria y Arqueología de la Península Ibérica)

Open only to students accepted to the special program Madrid Center & Liberal Arts in Spanish at UAM. 

Taught in Spanish. Students will gain a general knowledge of modern history of Europe and of Spain from the end of the 18^th century until 1848. Topics include:

European History

• Europe during the end of the 18th Century
• The liberal revolutions
• Industrial Revolution and Industrialization
• Loyalist Europe and Post-Revolutionary Liberalism
• The new working world

History of Spain

• War and revolution in Spain
• The transition into liberalism during the Regency era
• Society and economy

Meets with SPA 380.2.

(16883 , Historia Contemporánea I)