Programme

The course is divided into two parts:
a) the first is basic and it is devoted to a historical introduction to the contemporary world
b) the second is more advanced and it is devoted to the history of Italy during the Cold War

PART ONE (6 CFU)
This part introduces to the history of 19th and 20th Century, to methodological issues (periodization, political use of history, memory, sources), to the main phenomena (revolutions and political ideas, industrial development, mass society), and to the main historical interpretations.
Main topics: 1. Introduction to Historical Knowledge 2. The Contemporary Age: An Appraisal looking from Today 3. The Demographic Revolution 4. The Industrial and Environmental Revolution 5. Communication Revolution 6. The Cultural Revolution: The Individual and the Spread of Culture 7. The Social Revolution: Peasants, Workers, Middle Class, Women 8. Political Revolutions 9. The Rise of the Contemporary “Political Sphere”: Reactionaries, Conservatives, Liberals, Radicals, Socialists 10. Nationalism: Unification in Italy and Germany 11.The Role of Religion: Secularization and De-Christianization 12. The Age of Modernization Begins 13. The Second Acceleration of Progress. The Second Industrial Revolution 14. The Birth of Mass Society 15. Colonial Imperialism 15. Reshaping Europe: The Surfacing of America and Asia 16. World War I 17. The Age of Totalitarianism: Crisis of Democracy and Economic Collapse 18. Bolshevik Communism 19. Fascism 20. Nazism 21. World War II 22. The Cold War 23. Decolonization and Third World 24. The Origins of Welfare 25. The Affluent Society 26. The Age of the Digital Revolution

PART TWO (2 CFU)
This part introduces to the political history of contemporary Italy and to her deep connection with Cold War bipolarity: from the break of the Anti-Fascist Alliance in 1947 to the «national solidarity« governments of the 1970s.
Main topics: 1. The National and the International Dimension of the «Total» Cold War 2. The Heritage of Fascism and War (1943-1946) 3. The Birth of the Italian Political System and the Beginning of the Cold War (1947-1949) 4. The Conflicts of the Centrismo Age (1950-1955) 5. Beyond Centrismo (1956-1961) 6. Peaceful Coexistence and Center-Left (1962-1968) 7. The Years of the «Strategy of Tension» and of the Crisis of the West (1969-1973) 8. «National Solidarity » (1974-1978)

Core Documentation

Part One
○ G. SABBATUCCI – V. VIDOTTO, Storia contemporanea. L’Ottocento, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2019, pp. 376 (with the exclusion of Chpts. I-IV)
○ G. SABBATUCCI – V. VIDOTTO, Storia contemporanea. Dalla Grande Guerra ad oggi, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2019, pp. 552
○ S. CAVAZZA – P. POMBENI, L’età contemporanea, Bologna, Il Mulino 2018, pp. 232 (the book is available also in the online Pandoracampus platform, with supplementary resources, and interactive contents)

Part Two
○ G. FORMIGONI, Storia d’Italia nella Guerra Fredda (1943-1978), Bologna, Il Mulino, 2016, pp. 686

Type of delivery of the course

Lectures and multi-media presentation.

Attendance

Attendance is not mandatory

Type of evaluation

Obligatory written multiple-choice tests (30 questions) will verify the qualification on the history of the 19th, and 20th Century (and the beginning of the 21st). The test is based on the books by Sabbatucci and Vidotto, and cannot be passed without an in-depth knowledge of a good text-book on the subject. Information on the main historical interpretations of contemporary history, its main features and events (L’età contemporanea) and on the part about Italy in the Cold War will be the object of an oral exam. During the COVID-19 emergency phase, exams will be held according to art.1 of Decreto Rettorale n°. 703 5 May 2020.

Programme

The acquisition of tools needed to understand the XIX and XX centuries will be realized through a programme divided in three parts.
In the first one, with the aid of the history manual, the basic knowledge about the development of contemporary world, about the main processes of cultural, economic, political, institutional and social transformations will be acquired. This part will also describe the key turning points and some historiographical junctions. In the second part the analysis will focus on WW1, its global dimension as watershed between the 19th and the 20th century. In the third part the study will deal with the elaboration of the idea of peace, as put forward by pacifist movements, in particular the women’s pacifism, and how it held before the deflagration of the conflict.
The acquired knowledge, verified in the relevant exams, should give evidence of the critical ability in understanding the complexity of problems the relevance of specific aspects of events in the 19th and 20th centuries. For those who attended the lessons there will be a written test valid to pass the first part of the exam, namely the one based on the study of the manual.

Core Documentation

Giovanni Sabbatucci e Vittorio Vidotto, Contemporary History. XIX Century (excluding chapters I-IV), Laterza ed.
Giovanni Sabbatucci e Vittorio Vidotto, Contemporary History. XX Century, Laterza ed.
Oliver Janz, 1914-1918. The Great War, Einaudi
Stefania Bartoloni, Women before the Great War. Peace, Rights, Democracy (1978-1918), Laterza

Reference Bibliography

No additional bibliografic reference

Type of delivery of the course

The course consists of frontal lessons with audiovisual aids. Lessons are the means to acquire the fundamental knowledge needed to achieve the training objectives. In order to improve the fruition of course contents include the projection of period images and audiovisual documents.

Attendance

Frequency is not compulsory but recommended taking in to account the interactive elements of the lessons and the exposition of audiovisual documents. The exoneration tests are reserved only for students attending the lessons.

Type of evaluation

The evaluation is based on a oral test about the topics treated in the texts recommended in the syllabus, in order to verify the knowledge of topics, clarity of exposition and synthesis ability. The students who attend the lessons may undergo two exoneration tests on the topics contained in the Contemporary History manual, these tests consist of 30 questions. The first exoneration test concerns the XIX century and is carried out by the course mid term, the second test concerns the XX century and is carried out at the end of the course.

Programme

The course is divided into two parts:
a) the first is basic and it is devoted to a historical introduction to the contemporary world
b) the second is more advanced and it is devoted to the history of Italy during the Cold War

PART ONE (6 CFU)
This part introduces to the history of 19th and 20th Century, to methodological issues (periodization, political use of history, memory, sources), to the main phenomena (revolutions and political ideas, industrial development, mass society), and to the main historical interpretations.
Main topics: 1. Introduction to Historical Knowledge 2. The Contemporary Age: An Appraisal looking from Today 3. The Demographic Revolution 4. The Industrial and Environmental Revolution 5. Communication Revolution 6. The Cultural Revolution: The Individual and the Spread of Culture 7. The Social Revolution: Peasants, Workers, Middle Class, Women 8. Political Revolutions 9. The Rise of the Contemporary “Political Sphere”: Reactionaries, Conservatives, Liberals, Radicals, Socialists 10. Nationalism: Unification in Italy and Germany 11.The Role of Religion: Secularization and De-Christianization 12. The Age of Modernization Begins 13. The Second Acceleration of Progress. The Second Industrial Revolution 14. The Birth of Mass Society 15. Colonial Imperialism 15. Reshaping Europe: The Surfacing of America and Asia 16. World War I 17. The Age of Totalitarianism: Crisis of Democracy and Economic Collapse 18. Bolshevik Communism 19. Fascism 20. Nazism 21. World War II 22. The Cold War 23. Decolonization and Third World 24. The Origins of Welfare 25. The Affluent Society 26. The Age of the Digital Revolution

PART TWO (2 CFU)
This part introduces to the political history of contemporary Italy and to her deep connection with Cold War bipolarity: from the break of the Anti-Fascist Alliance in 1947 to the «national solidarity« governments of the 1970s.
Main topics: 1. The National and the International Dimension of the «Total» Cold War 2. The Heritage of Fascism and War (1943-1946) 3. The Birth of the Italian Political System and the Beginning of the Cold War (1947-1949) 4. The Conflicts of the Centrismo Age (1950-1955) 5. Beyond Centrismo (1956-1961) 6. Peaceful Coexistence and Center-Left (1962-1968) 7. The Years of the «Strategy of Tension» and of the Crisis of the West (1969-1973) 8. «National Solidarity » (1974-1978)

Core Documentation

Part One
○ G. SABBATUCCI – V. VIDOTTO, Storia contemporanea. L’Ottocento, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2019, pp. 376 (with the exclusion of Chpts. I-IV)
○ G. SABBATUCCI – V. VIDOTTO, Storia contemporanea. Dalla Grande Guerra ad oggi, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2019, pp. 552
○ S. CAVAZZA – P. POMBENI, L’età contemporanea, Bologna, Il Mulino 2018, pp. 232 (the book is available also in the online Pandoracampus platform, with supplementary resources, and interactive contents)

Part Two
○ G. FORMIGONI, Storia d’Italia nella Guerra Fredda (1943-1978), Bologna, Il Mulino, 2016, pp. 686

Reference Bibliography

No additional bibliografic reference

Type of delivery of the course

Lectures and multi-media presentation.

Attendance

Attendance is not mandatory

Type of evaluation

Obligatory written multiple-choice tests (30 questions) will verify the qualification on the history of the 19th, and 20th Century (and the beginning of the 21st). The test is based on the books by Sabbatucci and Vidotto, and cannot be passed without an in-depth knowledge of a good text-book on the subject. Information on the main historical interpretations of contemporary history, its main features and events (L’età contemporanea) and on the part about Italy in the Cold War will be the object of an oral exam. During the COVID-19 emergency phase, exams will be held according to art.1 of Decreto Rettorale n°. 703 5 May 2020.

Programme

The acquisition of tools needed to understand the XIX and XX centuries will be realized through a programme divided in three parts.
In the first one, with the aid of the history manual, the basic knowledge about the development of contemporary world, about the main processes of cultural, economic, political, institutional and social transformations will be acquired. This part will also describe the key turning points and some historiographical junctions. In the second part the analysis will focus on WW1, its global dimension as watershed between the 19th and the 20th century. In the third part the study will deal with the elaboration of the idea of peace, as put forward by pacifist movements, in particular the women’s pacifism, and how it held before the deflagration of the conflict.
The acquired knowledge, verified in the relevant exams, should give evidence of the critical ability in understanding the complexity of problems the relevance of specific aspects of events in the 19th and 20th centuries. For those who attended the lessons there will be a written test valid to pass the first part of the exam, namely the one based on the study of the manual.

Core Documentation

Giovanni Sabbatucci e Vittorio Vidotto, Contemporary History. XIX Century (excluding chapters I-IV), Laterza ed.
Giovanni Sabbatucci e Vittorio Vidotto, Contemporary History. XX Century, Laterza ed.
Oliver Janz, 1914-1918. The Great War, Einaudi
Stefania Bartoloni, Women before the Great War. Peace, Rights, Democracy (1978-1918), Laterza

Reference Bibliography

No additional bibliografic reference

Type of delivery of the course

The course consists of frontal lessons with audiovisual aids. Lessons are the means to acquire the fundamental knowledge needed to achieve the training objectives. In order to improve the fruition of course contents include the projection of period images and audiovisual documents.

Attendance

Frequency is not compulsory but recommended taking in to account the interactive elements of the lessons and the exposition of audiovisual documents. The exoneration tests are reserved only for students attending the lessons.

Type of evaluation

The evaluation is based on a oral test about the topics treated in the texts recommended in the syllabus, in order to verify the knowledge of topics, clarity of exposition and synthesis ability. The students who attend the lessons may undergo two exoneration tests on the topics contained in the Contemporary History manual, these tests consist of 30 questions. The first exoneration test concerns the XIX century and is carried out by the course mid term, the second test concerns the XX century and is carried out at the end of the course.

Programme

The course is divided into two parts:
a) the first is basic and it is devoted to a historical introduction to the contemporary world
b) the second is more advanced and it is devoted to the history of Italy during the Cold War

PART ONE (6 CFU)
This part introduces to the history of 19th and 20th Century, to methodological issues (periodization, political use of history, memory, sources), to the main phenomena (revolutions and political ideas, industrial development, mass society), and to the main historical interpretations.
Main topics: 1. Introduction to Historical Knowledge 2. The Contemporary Age: An Appraisal looking from Today 3. The Demographic Revolution 4. The Industrial and Environmental Revolution 5. Communication Revolution 6. The Cultural Revolution: The Individual and the Spread of Culture 7. The Social Revolution: Peasants, Workers, Middle Class, Women 8. Political Revolutions 9. The Rise of the Contemporary “Political Sphere”: Reactionaries, Conservatives, Liberals, Radicals, Socialists 10. Nationalism: Unification in Italy and Germany 11.The Role of Religion: Secularization and De-Christianization 12. The Age of Modernization Begins 13. The Second Acceleration of Progress. The Second Industrial Revolution 14. The Birth of Mass Society 15. Colonial Imperialism 15. Reshaping Europe: The Surfacing of America and Asia 16. World War I 17. The Age of Totalitarianism: Crisis of Democracy and Economic Collapse 18. Bolshevik Communism 19. Fascism 20. Nazism 21. World War II 22. The Cold War 23. Decolonization and Third World 24. The Origins of Welfare 25. The Affluent Society 26. The Age of the Digital Revolution

PART TWO (2 CFU)
This part introduces to the political history of contemporary Italy and to her deep connection with Cold War bipolarity: from the break of the Anti-Fascist Alliance in 1947 to the «national solidarity« governments of the 1970s.
Main topics: 1. The National and the International Dimension of the «Total» Cold War 2. The Heritage of Fascism and War (1943-1946) 3. The Birth of the Italian Political System and the Beginning of the Cold War (1947-1949) 4. The Conflicts of the Centrismo Age (1950-1955) 5. Beyond Centrismo (1956-1961) 6. Peaceful Coexistence and Center-Left (1962-1968) 7. The Years of the «Strategy of Tension» and of the Crisis of the West (1969-1973) 8. «National Solidarity » (1974-1978)

Core Documentation

Part One
○ G. SABBATUCCI – V. VIDOTTO, Storia contemporanea. L’Ottocento, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2019, pp. 376 (with the exclusion of Chpts. I-IV)
○ G. SABBATUCCI – V. VIDOTTO, Storia contemporanea. Dalla Grande Guerra ad oggi, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2019, pp. 552
○ S. CAVAZZA – P. POMBENI, L’età contemporanea, Bologna, Il Mulino 2018, pp. 232 (the book is available also in the online Pandoracampus platform, with supplementary resources, and interactive contents)

Part Two
○ G. FORMIGONI, Storia d’Italia nella Guerra Fredda (1943-1978), Bologna, Il Mulino, 2016, pp. 686

Reference Bibliography

No additional bibliografic reference

Type of delivery of the course

Lectures and multi-media presentation.

Attendance

Attendance is not mandatory

Type of evaluation

Obligatory written multiple-choice tests (30 questions) will verify the qualification on the history of the 19th, and 20th Century (and the beginning of the 21st). The test is based on the books by Sabbatucci and Vidotto, and cannot be passed without an in-depth knowledge of a good text-book on the subject. Information on the main historical interpretations of contemporary history, its main features and events (L’età contemporanea) and on the part about Italy in the Cold War will be the object of an oral exam. During the COVID-19 emergency phase, exams will be held according to art.1 of Decreto Rettorale n°. 703 5 May 2020.

Programme

The acquisition of tools needed to understand the XIX and XX centuries will be realized through a programme divided in three parts.
In the first one, with the aid of the history manual, the basic knowledge about the development of contemporary world, about the main processes of cultural, economic, political, institutional and social transformations will be acquired. This part will also describe the key turning points and some historiographical junctions. In the second part the analysis will focus on WW1, its global dimension as watershed between the 19th and the 20th century. In the third part the study will deal with the elaboration of the idea of peace, as put forward by pacifist movements, in particular the women’s pacifism, and how it held before the deflagration of the conflict.
The acquired knowledge, verified in the relevant exams, should give evidence of the critical ability in understanding the complexity of problems the relevance of specific aspects of events in the 19th and 20th centuries. For those who attended the lessons there will be a written test valid to pass the first part of the exam, namely the one based on the study of the manual.

Core Documentation

Giovanni Sabbatucci e Vittorio Vidotto, Contemporary History. XIX Century (excluding chapters I-IV), Laterza ed.
Giovanni Sabbatucci e Vittorio Vidotto, Contemporary History. XX Century, Laterza ed.
Oliver Janz, 1914-1918. The Great War, Einaudi
Stefania Bartoloni, Women before the Great War. Peace, Rights, Democracy (1978-1918), Laterza

Reference Bibliography

No additional bibliografic reference

Type of delivery of the course

The course consists of frontal lessons with audiovisual aids. Lessons are the means to acquire the fundamental knowledge needed to achieve the training objectives. In order to improve the fruition of course contents include the projection of period images and audiovisual documents.

Attendance

Frequency is not compulsory but recommended taking in to account the interactive elements of the lessons and the exposition of audiovisual documents. The exoneration tests are reserved only for students attending the lessons.

Type of evaluation

The evaluation is based on a oral test about the topics treated in the texts recommended in the syllabus, in order to verify the knowledge of topics, clarity of exposition and synthesis ability. The students who attend the lessons may undergo two exoneration tests on the topics contained in the Contemporary History manual, these tests consist of 30 questions. The first exoneration test concerns the XIX century and is carried out by the course mid term, the second test concerns the XX century and is carried out at the end of the course.