The course aims at providing a basic understanding of the history of the contemporary world, of the main processes of cultural, economic, institutional, political and social transformation and their essential turning points.
Adopting an historical perspective, the course will provide a critical understanding of the long-term roots of today's world, in order to allow students to deal with the complexity of our time.
Adopting an historical perspective, the course will provide a critical understanding of the long-term roots of today's world, in order to allow students to deal with the complexity of our time.
Canali
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Main contents: The First World War and its consequences; The Age of Totalitarianism; The Second World War; The Holocaust; The Cold War: main phases; The process of decolonization; The economic boom and the affluent society; Postwar Italy: centrismo, Center-Left, national solidarity and pentapartito; Terrorism in Italy: essential features, main phases, American analyses and reactions; The “Shock of the Global” and its effects on the political, economic, institutional, cultural and social sphere; The digital revolution; The collapse of Communism and the new international order after the Cold War; The evolution of the political system in Italy after the collapse of the “Republic of the parties”; Politics in the XX century and its evolution. The State, the parties and the Welfare State: apogee and crisis; New scenarios and challenges in the XXI century.
- Federico Romero, Storia globale dell'età contemporanea. Dal dominio occidentale all'insicurezza multipolare, Roma, Carocci, 2025
- Guido Formigoni, Storia essenziale dell'Italia repubblicana, Il Mulino, 2021
- Giovanni Mario Ceci, La CIA e il terrorismo italiano. Dalla strage di piazza Fontana agli anni Ottanta (1969-1986), Carocci, 2019
Fruizione: 21801982 STORIA CONTEMPORANEA in Governo e Amministrazione L-16 R A - L CECI GIOVANNI MARIO
Programme
The course aims at providing a basic understanding of the crucial turning points and most relevant processes of cultural, economic, institutional, political and social transformation of contemporary history. A section of the course will be devoted to the history of Postwar Italy since the end of Second World War to the present day.Main contents: The First World War and its consequences; The Age of Totalitarianism; The Second World War; The Holocaust; The Cold War: main phases; The process of decolonization; The economic boom and the affluent society; Postwar Italy: centrismo, Center-Left, national solidarity and pentapartito; Terrorism in Italy: essential features, main phases, American analyses and reactions; The “Shock of the Global” and its effects on the political, economic, institutional, cultural and social sphere; The digital revolution; The collapse of Communism and the new international order after the Cold War; The evolution of the political system in Italy after the collapse of the “Republic of the parties”; Politics in the XX century and its evolution. The State, the parties and the Welfare State: apogee and crisis; New scenarios and challenges in the XXI century.
Core Documentation
- Giovanni Sabbatucci, Vittorio Vidotto, Storia contemporanea. Dalla Grande Guerra a oggi, Laterza, nuova edizione del 2019- Federico Romero, Storia globale dell'età contemporanea. Dal dominio occidentale all'insicurezza multipolare, Roma, Carocci, 2025
- Guido Formigoni, Storia essenziale dell'Italia repubblicana, Il Mulino, 2021
- Giovanni Mario Ceci, La CIA e il terrorismo italiano. Dalla strage di piazza Fontana agli anni Ottanta (1969-1986), Carocci, 2019
Type of delivery of the course
The course will consist of lectures; photographs and footage will also be employed.Attendance
Attendance is strongly recommended but it is not mandatory.Type of evaluation
The assessment takes the form of an oral exam. The exam consists of several questions aimed at verifying the student's level of knowledge. The evaluation is based on the following criteria: knowledge of the main contents of the program; clarity, efficacy and accuracy of the vocabulary used by the student; the ability to show a critical approach. teacher profile teaching materials
Adopting an historical perspective, the course will provide a critical understanding of the long-term roots of today's world, in order to allow students to deal with the complexity of our time.
Programme
The course aims at providing a basic understanding of the history of the contemporary world, of the main processes of cultural, economic, institutional, political and social transformation and their essential turning points.Adopting an historical perspective, the course will provide a critical understanding of the long-term roots of today's world, in order to allow students to deal with the complexity of our time.
Core Documentation
1) L. Caracciolo-A. Roccucci, Storia contemporanea, Le Monnier Università, Milano 2017; 2) Marco Bresciani - Fulvio Conti (a cura di), L'età contemporanea. Prospettive di storia europea e globale, Roma, Carocci, 2023; 3) Mark Mazower, Le ombre dell'Europa. Democrazie e totalitarismi nel XX secolo, Milano, Garzanti, 2019.Reference Bibliography
Carmine Pinto, La guerra per il Mezzogiorno. Italiani, borbonici e briganti. 1860-1870, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2019; Salvatore Lupo, Il fascismo. La politica di un regime totalitario, Feltrinelli, Milano 2013; Ian Kershaw, All'inferno e ritorno. Europa 1914-1949, Bari-Roma, Laterza, 2016; Id., L'Europa nel vortice. Dal 1950 a oggi, Barri-Roma, Laterza, 2018; Christopher Clark, I sonnambuli. Come l'Europa arrivò alla Grande guerra, Bari-Roma, Laterza, 2012; Lawrence Sondhaus, La Prima guerra mondiale. Una rivoluzione globale, Torino, Einaudi, 2018; Richard Overy, La grande guerra imperiale 1931-1945, Torino, Einaudi, 2022; Tony JJudt, Dopoguerra. Com'è cambiata l'Europa dal 1945 a oggi, Bari-Roma, Laterza, 2020; Luca Riccardi, Yalta, I tre grandi e la costruzione di un nuovo sistema internazionale, Soveria Mannelli, Rubbetino, 2021; Pierre Grosser, Dall’Asia al mondo. Un'altra visione del XX secolo, Torino, REinaudi, 2018; Massimo De Giuseppe-Gianni La Bella, Storia dell’America Latina contemporanea, il Mulino, Bologna 2019; Mario Del Pero, Libertà e impero. Gli Stati Uniti e il mondo 1776-2011, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2017, Guido Crainz, Storia della Repubblica. L'Italia dalla Liberazione ad oggi, Roma, Donzelli, 2019.Attendance
not mandatory but strongly recommendedType of evaluation
Discussion with the teacher on some of the main issues touched upon during the course and addressed by the textbooks.