MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN AND ITALIAN HISTORY

The course belongs to the core educational activities of the Foundation Year in History.
This course introduces students to the analysis of Italian modern and contemporary history in its European context. A special attention will be paid to political-institutional systems and cultural history. The chronology of the course ranges from the French Revolution of 1789 to the transition from Fascism to the Republic and the challenges faced by the post-war Italian state and Italian society (1948). The course provide a compared analysis of the main historical events which concerned Italy, France and Germany.

1) Knowledge and understanding

- to know the specific terminology of the discipline and understand the context in which it is used
- to know the arguments and debates about Modern and Contemporary European and Italian History

2) Ability to apply knowledge and understanding

- to use in an appropriate manner the terminology related to the discipline

3) Communication skills

- to describe in an appropriate manner and critically the topics related to the discipline

4) Learning skills

- to critically use the bibliography and referral texts

This course is designed to provide historians with a first overview of the field of Modern and Contemporary European and Italian History.

This course analyses the modern world in order to understand its historical development from the French Revolution of 1789 to the post-war Italian state.

- Introduction to the course: What is Contemporary History?
- The French Revolution and its Aftermath
- The Napoleonic era
- 1848 and beyond
- Introduction to modern Italy, from the movement for national unification (mid-1800s) to the Italian Unification
- Roots of the Risorgimento
- The Italian and the German Unification
- The First World War
- The Fascist Regime
- Italy and Germany
- Interwar period in glocal perspective
- The Italian anti-Fascists during the Spanish Civil War
- The Second World War
- The 1948 Constitution

All the didactic materials will be made available through the Moodle e-learning platform.

Two short written examinations composed of 10 open questions will be held during the term period in order to understand how familiar the students have become with the arguments of the course. The questions will be based on the lessons of the teacher.

Front lectures and seminars.

English

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