History of Modern Chile

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

In this course, students are expected to understand and understand some of the history of Chile during the twentieth century, to problematize the historical trajectory of political, social and cultural phenomena from the country. We will begin with content associated with the questioning of the turn of the century through the Centenary, the breakdown of parliamentarism, and the cultural transformations of politics around the crisis of the decades of 1920 and 1930. We will analyze the progressive expansion of citizenship and the State through the initiative of the Popular Front, the Radical governments and the experience of Ibañismo, in relation also to the reconfiguration of the system international. Then, we will discuss the composition of Chilean politics around the "three thirds", the progressive polarization of Country, the role of the popular imagination and its insertion in the Cold War logic. The course will conclude with the Coup d'état of 1973 and the experience of dictatorship, to culminate in the process of democratic transition.