The course of Contemporary History is part of the program in Philosophy and it is included among the basic training activities. At the end of the course students are expected to know the characterising elements of contemporary Europe: a small but varied continent, because of the coexistence and the overlapping (whithin a comparatively narrow amount of space) of nationalities, cultures, traditions, religions that shape multietnichal, multicultural and multireligious societies.
teacher profile teaching materials
The following themes will be treated:
Sattelzeit
1848
Kingdom of Italy
Industrialization and urbanization
Liberal Italy
World War I
Consequences of the Great War
Russian Revolution and consolidation of the Soviet Union
Fascism
Nazism
World War II
European integration
Cold War
Middle East
First Italian Republic
End of the USSR
Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall
Birth of the Second Italian Republic
Globalization
Programme
The course starts with an introduction to the reasons and sense of historical knowledge and aims to give students knowledge and understanding of the fundamental processes of the contemporary. Major historiographical and methodological issues will be addressed.The following themes will be treated:
Sattelzeit
1848
Kingdom of Italy
Industrialization and urbanization
Liberal Italy
World War I
Consequences of the Great War
Russian Revolution and consolidation of the Soviet Union
Fascism
Nazism
World War II
European integration
Cold War
Middle East
First Italian Republic
End of the USSR
Europe after the fall of the Berlin Wall
Birth of the Second Italian Republic
Globalization
Core Documentation
L. Caracciolo-A. Roccucci, Storia contemporanea, Le Monnier Università, Milano 2017.Attendance
Attendance is optional, but strongly recommended.Type of evaluation
The examination will be in oral form and will cover the content of the course and the texts adopted in the syllabus.