History Essay
Unit 4 (PICK 2 OUT OF THE 3 OPTIONS )
ALL READ THE FOLLOWING:
Jack A. Goldstone. “Revolution in World History,” in Revolutions: theoretical, comparative, and historical studies. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Publishers, 1986.
Unit 4A: AMERICA: The Cuban Way
READ:
Piero Gleijeses, “Castro’s Cuba, 1959-1964,” in Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976 (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2013).
Marina Gold, “Healing practices and revolution in socialist Cuba,” Social Analysis 58.2 (Summer 2014): p42.
WATCH:
Fidel Castro in his own worlds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67ZWBl-66H8
The Cuban Revolution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdE6wqo2NOI
20/20 Fidel Castro Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbUgUJuI6Ak
Unit 4B: AMERICA: The Mexican Revolution
READ:
Thomas Benjamin. La Revolucion: Mexico’s great revolution as memory, myth, and history. University of Texas Press, Austin, 2008.
OPTIONAL: José Vasconcelos. The Cosmic Race. John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1997. (it provides an contemporary cultural understanding, you will not be quizzed on this so it is optional reading).
WATCH:
The Rise and Fall of the Mexican Revolution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ARfHzB1xlo
Unit 4C: AMERICA: A Peaceful Road to Revolution: Chile, 1970-1973
READ:
Lubna Z. Qureshi. Nixon, Kissinger, and Allende. Lexington Books, 2010, xi-xiii
Peter Winn. Weavers of Revolution: the Yarur workers and Chile’s road to Socialism. Oxford University Press, 1986. 3-10.
WATCH:
The Battle of Chile:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dn2EATepi6Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pLYZd5hnyA
THINK and WRITE if you choose Mexico and Chile (20 points; 1000-1100 words for this assignment)
Did Mexico and Chile have revolutions? What happened in each country? Did the revolution in each country succeed? What commonalities exist or make each revolution unique? How does the theory of revolution pertain to each case? Or compare to other revolutions you have seen during the semester?
THINK and WRITE if you choose Mexico and Cuba (20 points; 1000-1100 words for this assignment)
Did Mexico and Chile have revolutions? What happened in each country? Did the revolution in each country succeed? Why does Cuba still consider it is in a Revolution? What commonalities exist or make each revolution unique? How does the theory of revolution pertain to each case? Or compare to other revolutions you have seen during the semester?
THINK and WRITE if you choose Cuba and Chile (20 points; 1000-1100 words for this assignment)
Did Mexico and Chile have revolutions? What happened in each country? Did the revolution in each country succeed? Why does Cuba still consider it is in a Revolution? What commonalities exist or make each revolution unique? How does the theory of revolution pertain to each case? Or compare to other revolutions you have seen during the semester?
