MODERN GLOBAL HISTORY

The course is one of the main activities of the Master's degree course in History from the Middle Ages to the Contemporary Age, which prepares students to specialize in European and extra-European history through a full mastery of the epistemological foundations of historiographic practice and of the methodologies of investigation of different types of sources, including original ones. The course aims to provide the essential tools to critically analyze the historical roots of the process of so-called globalization. A process that has experienced alternating phases and that, until recently, has been considered only in a Eurocentric and progressive vision.

Understanding both the specificities of global early modern history and its importance in understanding the dynamics of today's world

No prerequisite is requested

The course will approach some of the nodes of global history in the modern age, through the analysis of political and economic macrostructures and their cultural manifestations, from a transnational and transcontinental perspective

One of:
C. H. Parker, Relazioni globali nell'età moderna. 1400-1800, Il Mulino 2012
G. Marcocci, Indios, cinesi, falsari. Le storie del mondo nel Rinascimento, Laterza 2016
• S. Gruzinski, La macchina del tempo. Quando l’Europa ha iniziato a scrivere la storia del mondo, Raffaello Cortina Editore, Milano 2018.
• E. Fusaro, Reti commerciali e traffici globali in età moderna, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2008
• A. Pagden, Signori del mondo. Ideologie dell'impero in Spagna, Gran Bretagna e Francia 1500-1800, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2008
• F. Morelli, Il mondo atlantico. Una storia senza confini (secoli XV-XIX), Carocci, Roma 2013.
• Conrad S., Storia globale. Un’introduzione, Roma, Carocci, 2015
• D. Abulafia, La scoperta dell’Umanità. Incontri atlantici nell’età di Colombo, Il Mulino, Bologna 2021
• A. De Francesco, Repubbliche atlantiche. Una storia globale delle pratiche rivoluzionarie, 1776-1804 Raffaello Cortina Editore 2022
• A. Bonvini, Risorgimento atlantico. I patrioti italiani e la lotta internazionale per le libertà, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2022
• B. Aram, B. Yun Casalilla, Global goods and the Spanish Empre, 1492-1824,Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
• S. Gruzinski, Abbiamo ancora bisogno della storia? Il senso del passato nel mondo globalizzato, 2016
• S. Subrahmanyam, Mondi connessi. La storia oltre l’eurocentrismo (secoli XVI-XVIII), Crocci, Roma, 2014
• T. Tagliaferri, la republica dell’umanità. Fonti culturali e religiose dell’universalismo imperiale britannico, Rubettino, Soveria Mannelli 2012
• Fernand Braudel, "Espansione europea e capitalismo", Il Mulino, 1999

Attending students should bring one book of their choice and prepare an in-depth written paper (term paper) of at least 10 pp. on a topic agreed upon with the professor.

Non-attending students should bring the books:
C. H. Parker, Global Relations in the Modern Age. 1400-1800, Il Mulino 2012
S. Gruzinski, Do we still need history? The meaning of the past in the globalized world, 2016
and a 10-page paper on a topic to be agreed with the professor

Lectures in classroom with large use of and slides

Italian

written and oral

This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Poverty and inequalities" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development