SOCIAL SCIENCE 2460 9.0
CONTEMPORARY LATIN AMERICA

Test 1 - Study Guide
October, 2004

CONTEMPORARY LATIN AMERICA

• Small-cale egalitarian pre-columbian societies (main features & regional distribution)
• Large-scale state societies (main features, regional distribution)
• Theocracy, tribute, surplus, surplus appropriation
• Horticulture & agriculture
• Colonialism a "double-sided equation"
• Reasons for relative ease of conquest
• Change & continuity following the conquest
• Conflicts among Crown, Church & Encomenderos over indian labour
• Bartolome de Las Casas
• Colonial labour systems ( encomienda , repartimiento , hacienda , debt-peonage, slavery, free labour)
• Colonial economy, political system & society (main features)
• Colonial system (explain longevity)
• creoles, peninsulares , mestizos, mulattoes, mazombos
• "obedezco pero no cumplo" (meaning & significance)
• Independence movements (domestic & internal causes, main features, outcomes according to Burns & Charlip )
• Change & continuity following Independence
• Post independence LA (obstacles to national consolidation, how national integration was secured)
• Positivism, Social Darwinism, progress
• Modernization & growth without development in 19th C. LA
• Railroads, modernization & development in 19th C. LA
• "civilization" versus "barbarism" (meaning & significance)
• Monroe Doctrine, Manifest Destiny (meaning & significance)
• Neocolonialism (meaning & significance)
• new forces in early 20th C. LA (actors, interests & goals)
• Doctrine of Comparative Advantage (explain meaning & significance)
• Dependency, economic enclave, monoculture or monocrop production
• Prebisch's Thesis (explain meaning & significance)
• Import Substitution Industrialization (main features, outcomes)
• Neoliberal free-market development (main features, outcomes)
• Declining terms of trade
• Structural adjustment
• "Washington Consensus"