Subject Area: Development Studies<br/>This course can also be studied in the following specialisations: Americas Studies; Hispanic Studies; History<br/><br/>Modern Latin America: Dependency and Development elucidates the history and development of Latin America from the Independence period in the early nineteenth century to the present. The basic question posed is why the Latin American republics have been so slow in converging economically, socially and politically with the advanced capitalist countries. Why do so many of them continue to exhibit characteristics that we associate with the Third or Developing World, rather than those we associate with the First or Developed World? The... -- Course Website
Prerequisites: 30 units of credit at Level 1
