Programme

The first part of the course will deal with the European identity and the process of the birth of the idea of Europe, while the second will focus on the main topics of European history in the 20th century: empires and nations, wars and revolutions, democracy and totalitarianism, the Cold War and the division between East and West, new balance after 1989. Finally, a third part will concern a case study: Georgia, a borderland between Europe and Asia.

Core Documentation

Tony Judt, Postwar. La nostra storia 1945-2005, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2017 (first, second and e third parts)
Simona Merlo, Georgia. Una storia fra Europa e Asia, Beit, Trieste 2017

Type of evaluation

Oral exam