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Week Eight: Signs of Crisis in a Guilded Age

The resonating theme for this week’s reading to me was ‘conflict’ – and it seems this has been the case for a great deal of the last few weeks’ readings. Conflict between Latin America and the encroaching imperialism of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogs, Week 8 | Tagged with conflict, Diaz, madero, Mexican Revolution, Mexico, modernisation, revoution, Villa, Zapata

Week Eight: Signs of Crisis in a Guilded Age

The resonating theme for this week’s reading to me was ‘conflict’ – and it seems this has been the case for a great deal of the last few weeks’ readings. Conflict between Latin America and the encroaching imperialism of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogs, Week 8 | Tagged with conflict, Diaz, madero, Mexican Revolution, Mexico, modernisation, revoution, Villa, Zapata

Week Seven: The Export Boom as Modernity

What I found particularly interesting this week was this concept of ‘modernity’, and how it is defined and used not only in the context of Latin America, but also in general. ‘Modernity’ evokes images of progress. However, what is progress … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogs, Week 7 | Tagged with authoritarianism, constitution, democratisation, dependency theory, modernisation, modernity

Week Seven: The Export Boom as Modernity

What I found particularly interesting this week was this concept of ‘modernity’, and how it is defined and used not only in the context of Latin America, but also in general. ‘Modernity’ evokes images of progress. However, what is progress … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogs, Week 7 | Tagged with authoritarianism, constitution, democratisation, dependency theory, modernisation, modernity

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