To provide instruments to analyze the historical processes that led to the constitution of contemporary Europe, with particular reference to the passage of the two World Wars; to acquire the knowledge of the historiographic debate on the building of the European identity; to be able to understand the political, social and cultural dynamics of contemporary Europe.
teacher profile teaching materials
Simona Merlo, Georgia. Una storia fra Europa e Asia, Beit, Trieste 2017
Programme
The first part of the course will deal with the European identity and the process of the birth of the idea of Europe, while the second will focus on the main topics of European history in the 20th century: empires and nations, wars and revolutions, democracy and totalitarianism, the Cold War and the division between East and West, new balance after 1989. Finally, a third part will concern a case study: Georgia, a borderland between Europe and Asia.Core Documentation
Tony Judt, Postwar. La nostra storia 1945-2005, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2017 (first, second and e third parts)Simona Merlo, Georgia. Una storia fra Europa e Asia, Beit, Trieste 2017
Type of evaluation
Oral exam