he aim of the course is to provide students with the knowledge of political, institutional, socio-economic and cultural transformations, which occurred during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It also intends to provide the spatial and temporal coordinates along which European and global history unfolds, with the aim of giving impetus to a critical and interpretative capacity of the contemporary.
At the end of the course the student:
- has acquired the knowledge of the facts that characterize contemporary history and the profound changes that have occurred in society between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
- has developed a functional analytical capacity for understanding the political, institutional and cultural changes of the contemporary world.
At the end of the course the student:
- has acquired the knowledge of the facts that characterize contemporary history and the profound changes that have occurred in society between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
- has developed a functional analytical capacity for understanding the political, institutional and cultural changes of the contemporary world.
Curriculum
teacher profile teaching materials
In a second section, the course deals with the crucial points of the Twentieth century history: the drastic breaking down determined by the Great World War in the cultural history of Europe where Europe is no longer the world history theatre; the war heritage; the Twentieth century genocides and the dark side of modernity, with a special attention to the “forgotten genocide” of Armenians; the United States depression and its consequences on western democracies, first among others Germany; totalitarian regimes, according to a comparative approach; the Second World War; the post-war international scenarios; Cold War, decolonization, détente; republican Italy from foundation to the Seventies crisis.
G. Sabbatucci, V. Vidotto, Storia contemporanea, Il Novecento, Laterza, Roma-Bari
L. Azara, I sensi e il pudore. L'Italia e la rivoluzione dei costumi, Donzelli, Roma, 2018
E. J. Hobsbawn, Il Secolo breve 1914-1991, Bur Rizzoli, Milano
Programme
The course aims at offering the essential knowledge concerning the modifications of economy, society and institutions in the last two centuries, in order to provide students with few reading keys of contemporary modernity. The origin being the industrial revolution and the passing from the absolute State to the liberal-constitutional one and the end being globalization and the closing of the East-West bipolar era. In a few introductory lectures the course deals with methodological issues related to the interdisciplinary approach in historical research and to the periodization in socio-economic and political-institutional approach.In a second section, the course deals with the crucial points of the Twentieth century history: the drastic breaking down determined by the Great World War in the cultural history of Europe where Europe is no longer the world history theatre; the war heritage; the Twentieth century genocides and the dark side of modernity, with a special attention to the “forgotten genocide” of Armenians; the United States depression and its consequences on western democracies, first among others Germany; totalitarian regimes, according to a comparative approach; the Second World War; the post-war international scenarios; Cold War, decolonization, détente; republican Italy from foundation to the Seventies crisis.
Core Documentation
G. Sabbatucci, V. Vidotto, Storia contemporanea. L’Ottocento, Laterza, Roma-BariG. Sabbatucci, V. Vidotto, Storia contemporanea, Il Novecento, Laterza, Roma-Bari
L. Azara, I sensi e il pudore. L'Italia e la rivoluzione dei costumi, Donzelli, Roma, 2018
E. J. Hobsbawn, Il Secolo breve 1914-1991, Bur Rizzoli, Milano
Reference Bibliography
G. Sabbatucci, V. Vidotto, Storia contemporanea. L’Ottocento, Laterza, Roma-Bari G. Sabbatucci, V. Vidotto, Storia contemporanea, Il Novecento, Laterza, Roma-Bari L. Azara, I sensi e il pudore. L'Italia e la rivoluzione dei costumi, Donzelli, Roma, 2018 E. J. Hobsbawn, Il Secolo breve 1914-1991, Bur Rizzoli, MilanoType of delivery of the course
The Contemporary History teaching is articulated in lectures which take place during the semester identified. Lectures deal with differents chronological and thematic subjects and encourage the capacity to interconnect political-institutional and socio-economic issues referred to the XIX and XX centuries.Attendance
Attendance is not compulsory.Type of evaluation
The evaluation is based upon an oral exam. The exam consists in four questions concerning the sections entailed by the teaching program: XIX and XX centuries. teacher profile teaching materials
In a second section, the course deals with the crucial points of the Twentieth century history: the drastic breaking down determined by the Great World War in the cultural history of Europe where Europe is no longer the world history theatre; the war heritage; the Twentieth century genocides and the dark side of modernity, with a special attention to the “forgotten genocide” of Armenians; the United States depression and its consequences on western democracies, first among others Germany; totalitarian regimes, according to a comparative approach; the Second World War; the post-war international scenarios; Cold War, decolonization, détente; republican Italy from foundation to the Seventies crisis.
G. Sabbatucci, V. Vidotto, Storia contemporanea, Il Novecento, Laterza, Roma-Bari
L. Azara, I sensi e il pudore. L'Italia e la rivoluzione dei costumi, Donzelli, Roma, 2018
E. J. Hobsbawn, Il Secolo breve 1914-1991, Bur Rizzoli, Milano
Programme
The course aims at offering the essential knowledge concerning the modifications of economy, society and institutions in the last two centuries, in order to provide students with few reading keys of contemporary modernity. The origin being the industrial revolution and the passing from the absolute State to the liberal-constitutional one and the end being globalization and the closing of the East-West bipolar era. In a few introductory lectures the course deals with methodological issues related to the interdisciplinary approach in historical research and to the periodization in socio-economic and political-institutional approach.In a second section, the course deals with the crucial points of the Twentieth century history: the drastic breaking down determined by the Great World War in the cultural history of Europe where Europe is no longer the world history theatre; the war heritage; the Twentieth century genocides and the dark side of modernity, with a special attention to the “forgotten genocide” of Armenians; the United States depression and its consequences on western democracies, first among others Germany; totalitarian regimes, according to a comparative approach; the Second World War; the post-war international scenarios; Cold War, decolonization, détente; republican Italy from foundation to the Seventies crisis.
Core Documentation
G. Sabbatucci, V. Vidotto, Storia contemporanea. L’Ottocento, Laterza, Roma-BariG. Sabbatucci, V. Vidotto, Storia contemporanea, Il Novecento, Laterza, Roma-Bari
L. Azara, I sensi e il pudore. L'Italia e la rivoluzione dei costumi, Donzelli, Roma, 2018
E. J. Hobsbawn, Il Secolo breve 1914-1991, Bur Rizzoli, Milano
Reference Bibliography
G. Sabbatucci, V. Vidotto, Storia contemporanea. L’Ottocento, Laterza, Roma-Bari G. Sabbatucci, V. Vidotto, Storia contemporanea, Il Novecento, Laterza, Roma-Bari L. Azara, I sensi e il pudore. L'Italia e la rivoluzione dei costumi, Donzelli, Roma, 2018 E. J. Hobsbawn, Il Secolo breve 1914-1991, Bur Rizzoli, MilanoType of delivery of the course
The Contemporary History teaching is articulated in lectures which take place during the semester identified. Lectures deal with differents chronological and thematic subjects and encourage the capacity to interconnect political-institutional and socio-economic issues referred to the XIX and XX centuries.Attendance
Attendance is not compulsory.Type of evaluation
The evaluation is based upon an oral exam. The exam consists in four questions concerning the sections entailed by the teaching program: XIX and XX centuries.