This course is available on the BA in History, BSc in International Relations and History and BSc in Politics and History. This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students.
This course is available on the BA in History, BSc in International Relations and History and BSc in Politics and History. This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students.
20 hours of seminars in the MT. 20 hours of seminars in the LT. There will be a reading week in the Michaelmas and the Lent Terms.
One 2,000-word essay in the Michaelmas term. One 1000-word book review and one 10-minute presentation in the Michaelmas and Lent terms.
Ades, Dawn, and Alison McClean. Revolution on Paper: Mexican Prints 1910?1960. Edited by Mark McDonald. (London: British Museum, 2009). Burke, Peter, Eyewitnessing: the uses of images as historical evidence (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2001). Castro, Justin, Radio in Revolution: Wireless Technology and State Power in Mexico, 1897-1938 (University of Nebraska Press, 2016). Davidson, Russ (ed.), Latin American Posters: Public Aesthetics and Mass Politics (Museum of New Mexico Press, 2006). Geggus, David, ?Print Culture and the Haitian Revolution : The Written and the Spoken Word,? Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society 116, pt. 2 (2007): 299?314. Ginsburg, Faye D., Lila Abu-Lughod; Brian Larkin, Media worlds: anthropology on new terrain (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002). Guerra, Lillian, Visions of power in Cuba: revolution, redemption, and resistance, 1959-1971 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012). Katzew, Ilona, Casta Painting: Images of Race in Eighteenth-Century Mexico (Yale University Press, 2004). Malitsky, Joshua, Post-Revolution Nonfiction Film: Building the Soviet and Cuban Nations (Indiana University Press, 2013). Medina, Eden, Ivan da Costa Marques and Christina Holmes (eds.) Beyond imported magic : essays on science, technology, and society in Latin America (The MIT Press, 2014). Nájera, Luna, ?Contesting the Word: The Crown and the Printing Press in Colonial Spanish America?, Bulletin of Spanish Studies, 89:4 (2012): 575-596. Popkin, Jeremy D. ?A Colonial Media Revolution: The Press in Saint-Domingue, 1789?1793,? The Americas (Jan 2018): 3-25. Poole, Deborah, Vision, Race, and Modernity: A Visual Economy of the Andean Image World (Princeton University Press, 1997). Sorlano, Cristina, Tides of Revolution: Information, Insurgencies, and the Crisis of Colonial Rule in Venezuela (University of New Mexico Press, 2018).
Essay (35%, 3500 words) in the LT. Essay (35%, 3500 words) in the ST. Source analysis (15%) in the MT. Class participation (15%) in the MT and LT.