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Office hours, Fall 2008: All current course material is posted on Blackboard >> Professor Holden's Study Guide >> Selected Latin American primary source holdings in the Perry Library of Old Dominion University >> History of historiography timeline >> Prof. Holden is the faculty adviser of this group, which is recognized by the University's Office of Student Activities and Leadership. The aim of Students for Life is to educate the University community about the pro-life position on such as issues as abortion, euthanasia, capital punishment, and so on. ODU students who wish to join it should log on to their "co-curricular transcript" Phi Alpha Theta >> Student programs and fellowships
>> To Read or Not to Read >> Executive Summary, Tough Choices or Tough Times >> How To Be Top: What Works in Education >>
History 103H. Latin America in a World Setting. Lecture 3 hours; 3 credits. Surveys significant themes in Latin American history, as related to other world regions, from the indigenous civilizations, through conquest and colonization and the post-colonial period, to the contemporary world. History 372. Central America and the Caribbean Since 1800. Lecture 3 hours; 3 credits. Prerequisite: HIST 101H, 102H, 103H, 104H or 105H. This course surveys socio-economic and political change after about 1800 in the Caribbean Basin (Central America and the insular Caribbean), a region whose diverse colonial, ethnic, labor and migratory experiences will provide rich opportunities for comparative study. Plantation slavery and its legacies, independence movements, export-led economic growth, nationalism, social movements, revolution and great-power rivalries will be the major themes. History 373. U.S.-Latin American Relations. Lecture 3 hours; 3 credits. Prerequisite: HIST 101H, 102H, 103H, 104H or 105H. This survey of Latin American's relations with the United States since the early nineteenth century will seek to identify and account for changing patterns in what has been a highly asymmetrical power relationship. The emphasis will be on the outcomes of U.S. policy in the region, combining the study of broad trends (especially in economic and security policy since the 1890s) with a close analysis of three cases: Mexico, Cuba and Central America. The influence of the larger international environment on those relations will be considered. History 470/570. Democracy and Development in Modern Latin America. Lecture 3 hours; 3 credits. Prerequisite: HIST 101H, 102H, 103H, 104H or 105H. This course analyzes, from a historical perspective, two core problems in Latin America's modern (since c. 1880) history: political authoritarianism and economic underdevelopment. The temporal and spatial dimensions of change will be highlighted in discussions of patron-client political systems, military autonomy and impunity, social movements and revolution, export-oriented economic growth, industrialization, and the roles of national, ethnic and gender identities. Hist 645. "Introductory Seminar in Latin American History." This is a new course combining directed readings, lectures and student-led discussion, tailored for graduate students in history and international studies who have had little or no undergraduate work in Latin America. The purpose is to help students situate Latin America in world history, and to introduce them to the major themes and interpretative approaches of the region's historiography. The emphasis will be on the big problems that have occupied historians in the last half-century, and the variety of responses to them, beginning with the Iberian-led expansion of Europe in the fifteenth century, through the construction of the overseas empires of Portugal and Spain, relations between Europeans and the indigenous inhabitants, African slavery, the collapse of the empires, the founding of new nations in the Western Hemisphere from the early nineteenth century, the impact of liberalism and other ideas, state formation and politics, patterns of production and exchange, and social change and social movements. We will end the course with a hard look at certain current events -- such as the rise of populism in Venezuela and elsewhere, and the fate of Cuban socialism -- from a historical perspective. International Studies 745/845. Social Movements and Social Revolution in Latin America. Seminar; 3 credits. Interpretations of the three major social revolutions in modern Latin America (Mexico 1910, Cuba 1959 and Nicaragua 1979) and of a variety of social movements (agrarian, labor, urban, religious and so on) are studied from a continental perspective. The relevant theoretical literature and the economic, cultural and political background receive special attention. A broad knowledge of modern Latin American history will be assumed by the instructor, and students who do not have that knowledge should expect to do the necessary extra reading. Students enrolled in the 800-level version of this course will be advised of special requirements.
Robert Holden constructed and maintains the Central American Political History Database, in Spanish and English, at http://al.odu.edu/history/central, launched on March 8, 2006 on the site of the History Department of Old Dominion University. This is the first complete set of basic biographical data on all of the heads of state of the five countries of Central America (Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Costa Rica) from the 1820s until today. Financed by Old Dominion's Center for Learning Technologies. He has also scanned and posted the U.S. Department of Defense records of U.S. military transfers to Latin America (1950-1990), which he received in response to his Freedom of Information Act requests, at http://www.lions.odu.edu/~rholden/db/usmilaid/
Forthcoming (in-press) publications include "The Public University's Unbearable Defiance of Being," Educational Philosophy and Theory "Communism and Catholic Social Doctrine in the Guatemalan Revolution of 1944," Journal of Church and State, 50 (Summer 2008) 3. “De la mujer invisible al feminismo ineludible: Política y antropología en la historiografía de la mujer,” Memoria y Civilización (9) 2006: 109-138. “What Is Your Anthropology? What Are Your Ethics?” Historically Speaking (bulletin of The Historical Society), 6 (March/April 2005) 4:35 -37. Armies Without Nations: Public Violence and State Formation in Central America, 1821-1960. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. “The Perversion and Redemption of Latin American Political History.” The Journal of the Historical Society. 3 (March 2003) 1: 25 -44. Co-edited, with Eric Zolov, Latin America and the United States: A Documentary History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. “Securing Central America Against Communism: The United States and the Modernization of Surveillance in the Cold War.” Journal of Interamerican Studies & World Affairs 41 (Spring 1999) 1: 1-30. “El carácter del ejército de Honduras a los finales del siglo XIX: Bandas armadas o institución nacional?” Revista de Historia (Instituto de Historia de Nicaragua, Universidad Centroamericana), 9 (1997) 1:21-30. "Constructing the Limits of State Violence in Central America: Toward a New Research Agenda." Journal of Latin American Studies 28 (May 1996) 2:435-459. Mexico and the Survey of the Public Lands: The Management of Modernization, 1876-1911. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1994. "The Real Diplomacy of Violence: Military Power in U.S.-Central American Relations, 1950-1990," International History Review, XV (May 1993) 2:283-322. "Priorities of the State in the Survey of the Public Land in Mexico, 1876-1911." Hispanic American Historical Review. 70 (November 1990) 4: 579-608. "Los terrenos baldíos y la usurpación de tierras: mitos y realidades (1876-1911)," in Enrique Semo, Coordinador, Historia de la cuestión agraria mexicana, Vol II: La tierra y el poder. Mexico: Siglo XXI, 1988.
"The Consolidation of Authority: Public Violence, Disorder and the Illusions of Democracy in Latin America Today," Mid-Atlantic Seminar on Latin American History Second Annual Meeting November 8, 2008,Temple University. "Peripheries at the Center of a Shadow Nation: The Pivotal Role of Borderland Violence in Central American History," for the panel, "American Identities," 2008 conference of The Historical Society, "Migration, Diaspora, Ethnicity, & Nationalism in History," Baltimore, June 7, 2008. "By What Authority? Public Violence and the Rule of Law in Latin America Since Independence." Workshop on Arms, Violence and Politics in Latin America, University of Calgary, April 25, 2008. "A Culture of Impunity? Violent Conflict in Central America." Public presentation for symposium, "The Politics of Violence in Latin America," University of Calgary, April 24, 2008. "To Change the World: Epistemic Virtue and the Scholar-Activist." Philosophy Club of Old Dominion University, February 5, 2008. "Communism and Catholic Social Doctrine in the Guatemalan Revolution of 1944: Exploring the Theological Borderland of Latin America's Cold War Historiography," for panel, "Church and Society in a Transnational Context," American Catholic Historical Association, annual meeting, Jan. 6, 2008, Washington, D.C. "Borderlands and Public Violence in a Shadow Polity: Costa Ricans, Nicaraguans and the Legacy of the Central American Federation in the Cold War," for panel, "Borderlands and State-Making in Central America, 1821-2008," Conference on Latin American History, annual meeting, Jan. 6, 2008, Washington, D.C. "Knowledge and Belief in the Public Square and the University." Presentation at symposium, "The Sacred and the Secular: Tolerance and Conflict in Democratic Life," Old Dominion University, April 6, 2007. "Peripheries at the Center of a Shadow Nation: The Borderlands in Central American Public Violence." Poster exhibit, Research Expo, Old Dominion University, April 5, 2007 “Reconciliation Through Justice: The Catholic Response to Cold War Communism in Latin America.” Symposium, “Religion and Reconciliation,” sponsored by Old Dominion University, November 17, 2006. “By What Authority? The Improvisational State in Latin America,” for panel, “European Models/Non European Cases,” Social Science History Assn. meeting, Portland, OR, November 5, 2005. “Cuando el agua se vuelve impotable: Un desafío para los historiadores.” Paper, Seminario del Departamento de Historia, Universidad de Navarra, 17 December 2004. “Rasgos principales de la política exterior de los EE.UU. desde el siglo XIX.” Talk, Colegio Mayor Torre I, Universidad de Navarra, 21 May 2004. “Presupuestos éticos y antropológicos en el quehacer del historiador.” Paper, Seminario de Historia Contemporanea, Departmento de Historia, Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain. 17 May 2004. Invited panelist, “Profiling and Stereotyping in America,” sponsored by the Virginia Beach (VA) Human Rights Commission, on Nov. 5, 2002, at the Virginia Beach Municipal Center. “The Christian Perspective on Evil.” Presentation for faculty panel, “Faces of Evil: Sixth Humanities Interdisciplinary Forum,” Humanities Institute, College of Arts & Letters, Old Dominion University, October 30, 2002. “Reading the Book of History Backward: 9/11, the Imagination of Disaster, and the Historiography of the Cold War,” for Roundtable Discussion, “Teaching U.S. Foreign Relations Since 9-11-01. ” Annual meeting, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Athens GA, June 21, 2002. “International Dimensions of Public Violence,” and Chair, Workshop, “Beyond Militarism: Rethinking Public Violence in Latin America.” 22nd International Congress of the Latin American Studies Assn., Miami, March 16, 2000.
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