January 1999
Answer two questions
Candidates are reminded that they may not use in any answer substantially the same material as that already used in the essay submitted for assessment.
1. Consider the view that internal pressures for change were more important than international factors in bringing about the end of slavery. Discuss with reference to EITHER Cuba OR Brazil.
2.Explain why the social impact of coffee exports varied so much from one part of Latin America to another.
3.EITHER
(a) ?The Argentine elite aimed to emulate the United States by constructing a liberal economic and political system based on foreign investment and European immigration’ (David Rock). To what extent did it succeed?
OR
(b) Consider the effects of Chile’s nitrate monopoly on the country’s economy and political system.
4.Consider the view that issues of consumption were more important than the growth of trade unions and workplace disputes in the making of the Latin American working class. Discuss with reference to ONE country if you wish.
5.Did feminist movements achieve anything for Latin American women before 1940? Discuss with reference to ONE country if you wish.
6.Why, after the relative stability of the Porfiriato, did Mexico collapse into a decade of civil war?
7.EITHER
(a) Is the term ?informal imperialism’ an adequate description of the British role in Latin America before 1914?
OR
(b) ?To talk about a single US policy towards Latin America before 1930 is misleading. There were different policies for different parts of Latin America’. To what extent would you agree?
8.Consider the view that the First World War exposed the problems of dependent capitalism in Latin America.
9.Examine the economic and political consequences of the Wall Street Crash and the world depression for ONE country in Latin America.