The course consists of an introduction to the history of the 19th and 20th centuries with the aim of providing students, in a global and comparative perspective, a picture of the great economic, political, social, cultural transformations which followed the Industrial Revolution since the Twin Towers, highlighting representative processes in some areas of Europe, America, Asia and Africa.
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: the Taiping Revolution in China; the opening of Japan in the fifties; the revolution of Meiji; 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. Postwar 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. Italian Republic
16. Decolonization
17. Large international post-war crisis. The Middle East knot
18. The process of European unification
19. The fall of communism. The contemporary world
Ricevimento: Su appuntamento scrivendo una mail a lara.piccardo@unige.it
LARA PICCARDO (President)
GIOVANNI BARBAROSSA
GUIDO LEVI
ROBERTO MACCARINI
CHIARA VANGELISTA
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