OVERVIEW

The course consists of an introduction to history of 19th and 20th centuries with the aim of providing students, in a global and comparative perspective, with a picture of the great international economic, political, social and cultural transformations that have been happening in the two centuries by bringing the student closer to the use of documentary sources and to the complexity of historiographic interpretations.

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

Acquire the analytical tools necessary to understand the historical, political, economic and international processes that characterize contemporary history.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

• To understand the main issues of the discipline and to follow the events and processes.
• To interpret critically the data and issues relating to the subject of study and reflection on the main topics, forming independent judgments on them.
• To communicate, with command of language, information, and issues related to the contemporary history.
• Acquisition of the main basic tools and the ability to use them so that you can deal autonomously further studies in the subject field.

TEACHING METHODS

36-hour course, lectures.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

Specifically, the following topics will be covered:

1. The Congress of Vienna and the Restoration
2. From the uprisings of 1820-1821 to the 1848 uprising
3. The Italian and German unification
4. The Oriental Question
5. The extra-European world: China, Japan, Latin America; the Civil War in the US
6. Imperialism and colonialism
7. Italy of Giolitti
8. From the Russian Revolution of 1905 to the First World War
9. The Russian Revolution
10. The Treaties of Paris and their consequences
11. Post-war and Fascism
12. The Republic of Weimar; Hitler and the Nazis
13. The Second World War
14. The post-war period and the Cold War
15. Large international post-war crisis. The Middle East knot
16. The fall of communism. The contemporary world

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

For the exam, students will have to prepare for the course topics, freely choosing a handbook dealing with them (foreign students can also study on English, French, Russian, Arabic handbooks manuals etc.).

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

LARA PICCARDO (President)

ANDREA CATANZARO

GUIDO LEVI

ROBERTO MACCARINI

FRANCESCO PIERINI

CHIARA VANGELISTA

LESSONS

LESSONS START

17 October 2017 with the following timetable:

Tuesday 8.00-10.00, Albergo dei Poveri, Aula 1;

Thursday 8.00-9.00, Albergo dei Poveri, Aula 17.

Class schedule

CONTEMPORARY HISTORY A

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

Written or oral according to number of students taking the exam.

Exam schedule