Latin American Studies 389s - Agrarian America:Sugar,Cotton,Coffee,Wheat

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Mount Holyoke College

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This course explores the structure and variety of societies generated in north, Central, and South America by four widely distributed export crops. Although not bound by rigid chronology, our focus will be primarily on the period 1750-1950. Principal concerns of the course are variations by time and place in each commodity's technologies, labor systems, farm sizes, and social structure; the political dynamics associated with each type of farming; and the problematic features of capitalism in agriculture, or, how and when do peasants become farmers and farming agribusiness Readings in English on cases drawn from throughout the Americas. Meets Humanities I-B requirement L. Gudmundson Prereq. jr, sr, 8 credits in Latin American studies or related field, or permission of instructor; 4 credits

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8.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.mtholyoke.edu

Phone Number:

(413) 538-2000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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Semester

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