Europe after the Empire
The aim of this course is to provide students with a detailed overview of the historical, political, economic and social situation of Europe during the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Particular attention will be paid to the history of the Russian empire. On the one hand the course will focus on the progressive development of European states after the defeat of Napoleon, while, on the other, it will analyze those nineteenth-century contradictions which are still to be found at the centre of European politics.
Lectures
The course will provide an introduction to the topics and to problems which have characterized the history of Europe during the nineteenth and early twentieth century. It will examine the difficult emergence of national states after the defeat of Napoleon and explore the political scene of the old continent, marked by the raise of new and old empires: the Russian, the French and the Victorian Empire, the Austrian Kaisertum and the new Reich of Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig. The attempt to interlace these two perspectives, the national and the imperial one, constitutes the fil rouge of the course: it will examine the numerous facets of the nineteenth-century imperial period, which was constantly torn between the drive towards modernity and the desire to preserve the past, up to the moment when the incapacity to keep together the empire and the nation rushed Europe into the First World War. Particular attention will be paid to the political, social, cultural and diplomatic aspects of the situation in Russia.
Reading list for students for whom this course is worth 6 ECTS
The reference book
A. M. Banti, L'età contemporanea. Dalle rivoluzioni settecentesche all'imperialismo, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2017
and A book chosen from the following list:
D. Saunders, La Russia nell’età della reazione e delle riforme, 1801-1881, Bologna, il Mulino, 1997
M. Natalizi, Il burattinaio dell’ultimo Zar. Grigorij Rasputin, Roma, Salerno, 2016
G. Pécout, Il lungo Risorgimento. La nascita dell’Italia contemporanea (1770-1922), Milano, Mondadori, 2011
A. M. Banti, Il Risorgimento italiano, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2016
R. Magraw, Il secolo borghese in Francia, 1815-1914, Bologna, il Mulino, 1996
D. Bajrot, J-P. Chaline, A. Encrevé, Storia della Francia nell’Ottocento, Bologna, il Mulino, 2003
M. Bellabarba, L’Impero asburgico, Bologna, il Mulino, 2014
D. Qataert, L’Impero ottomano, Roma, Salerno, 2008
J. Breuilly, La formazione dello stato nazionale tedesco (1800-1871), Bologna, il Mulino, 2004
M. D. Pugh, Storia della Gran Bretagna 1789-1990, Roma, Carocci, 2008
Reading list for students for whom this course is worth 9 ECTS
The reference book:
And TWO books chosen from the following list:
G. Pécout, Il lungo Risorgimento. La nascita dell’Italia contemporanea (1770-1922), Milano, Mondadori, 1999
A. M. Banti, Il Risorgimento italiano, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2009
Reading list for students for whom this course is worth 12 ECTS
And THREE books chosen from the following list:
MARCO NATALIZI (President)
LUCA LO BASSO
ROBERTO SINIGAGLIA
18th September 2017
Oral exam
The final examination will be conducted and evaluated by the course lecturer who will check the acquisition of disciplinary contents. In particular, the oral exam will verify the thematic area of competence, the ability of contextualization and the capacity to examine and reflect upon sources and documents.
Curriculum of the Lecturer
Marco Natalizi (1963) is Associated Professor in History of Eastern Europe. After graduating at the University of Pisa he was trained at the Universities of Florence and Siena. His most significant publications are: Il burattinaio dell’ultimo Zar. Grigorij Rasputin (Salerno, 2016); Pietro il Grande. Uno zar in Europa (EDISES, 2014); L’ingresso della Russia in Europa, in Storia d’Europa e del Mediterraneo. Dal Medioevo all’età della globalizzazione, Sezione V. L’Età moderna (secoli XVI-XVIII), Vol. XII. Popoli, stati, equilibri del potere (Salerno, 2013); La rivolta degli orfani. La vicenda del ribelle Pugačëv (Donzelli, 2011); Il caso Černyševskij (Bruno Mondatori, 2006); All’ombra della legge. L’amministrazione delle comunità urbane in Russia nella metà del XVIII secolo (Bruno Mondatori, 2003); Nikolaj Gavrilovič Černyševskij, Scritti politico-filosofici, traduzione, introduzione e note a cura di Marco Natalizi (Maria Pacini Fazzi, 2001). He is member of Società Italiana per la Storia dell'Età Moderna (SISEM) and of Società Italiana di Studi sul Secolo Diciottesimo (SISSD).
