Programme

The course aims at providing the knowledge of the transformations in economy, society and institutions in the last two centuries. The objective is to offer students the reading keys of modernity. The starting point being the industrial revolution and the passing from the absolute State to the liberal-constitutional one and the arriving point is represented by the end of bipolarism East-Ouest. The course deals with few crucial subjects of the XX century history: the Great War; the genocides and the dark side of modernity; the economical and financial crisis originates in the United States and flowing to the western democracies; the totalitarian regimes; the Second World War; the international scenario in the Second post conflict era; the decolonization; the Cold War; the Italian Republic.

Core Documentation

G. Sabbatucci, V. Vidotto, Storia contemporanea. L’Ottocento, Laterza, Roma-Bari
G. Sabbatucci, V. Vidotto, Storia contemporanea, Il Novecento, Laterza, Roma-Bari
E. J. Hobsbawn, Il Secolo breve 1914-1991, Bur Rizzoli, Milano
L. Azara, I sensi e il pudore. L'Italia e la rivoluzione dei costumi, Donzelli, Roma 2018

Type of delivery of the course

The course in articulated in class lectures dealing with different scheduled topics related to XIX and XX century history.

Type of evaluation

The evaluation is subject to an oral exam.