AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

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.

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: 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

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

LARA PICCARDO (President)

GIOVANNI BARBAROSSA

GUIDO LEVI

ROBERTO MACCARINI

CHIARA VANGELISTA

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

Written-Oral

Exam schedule