The course aims at providing a basic understanding of the shaping of the contemporary world, of the main processes of cultural, economical, institutional, political and social transformation and of essential turning points.
On the basis of the historical methodology, the course wishes to provide a critical understanding of the complexity and temporal depth of the main issues of today's world, in order to empower students to knowledgeably move within its complex reality."
On the basis of the historical methodology, the course wishes to provide a critical understanding of the complexity and temporal depth of the main issues of today's world, in order to empower students to knowledgeably move within its complex reality."
Canali
scheda docente
materiale didattico
Main contents: The First World War and its consequences; The Age of Totalitarianism; The Second World War; The Holocaust; The Cold War: main phases; The process of decolonization; The economic boom and the affluent society; Postwar Italy: centrismo, Center-Left, national solidarity and pentapartito; Terrorism in Italy: essential features, main phases, American analyses and reactions; The “Shock of the Global” and its effects on the political, economic, institutional, cultural and social sphere; The digital revolution; The collapse of Communism and the new international order after the Cold War; The evolution of the political system in Italy after the collapse of the “Republic of the parties”; Politics in the XX century and its evolution. The State, the parties and the Welfare State: apogee and crisis; New scenarios and challenges in the XXI century.
- Tommaso Detti, Giovanni Gozzini, L’età del disordine. Storia del mondo attuale 1968-2017, Laterza, 2018
- Guido Formigoni, Storia essenziale dell'Italia repubblicana, Il Mulino, 2021
- Giovanni Mario Ceci, La CIA e il terrorismo italiano. Dalla strage di piazza Fontana agli anni Ottanta (1969-1986), Carocci, 2019
- Paolo Pombeni, Lo stato e la politica. Quanto contano nel mondo globale di oggi, Il Mulino, nuova edizione aggiornata 2020
Programma
The course aims at providing a basic understanding of the crucial turning points and most relevant processes of cultural, economic, institutional, political and social transformation of contemporary history. A section of the course will be devoted to the history of Postwar Italy since the end of Second World War to the present day.Main contents: The First World War and its consequences; The Age of Totalitarianism; The Second World War; The Holocaust; The Cold War: main phases; The process of decolonization; The economic boom and the affluent society; Postwar Italy: centrismo, Center-Left, national solidarity and pentapartito; Terrorism in Italy: essential features, main phases, American analyses and reactions; The “Shock of the Global” and its effects on the political, economic, institutional, cultural and social sphere; The digital revolution; The collapse of Communism and the new international order after the Cold War; The evolution of the political system in Italy after the collapse of the “Republic of the parties”; Politics in the XX century and its evolution. The State, the parties and the Welfare State: apogee and crisis; New scenarios and challenges in the XXI century.
Testi Adottati
- Giovanni Sabbatucci, Vittorio Vidotto, Storia contemporanea. Dalla Grande Guerra a oggi, Laterza, nuova edizione del 2019- Tommaso Detti, Giovanni Gozzini, L’età del disordine. Storia del mondo attuale 1968-2017, Laterza, 2018
- Guido Formigoni, Storia essenziale dell'Italia repubblicana, Il Mulino, 2021
- Giovanni Mario Ceci, La CIA e il terrorismo italiano. Dalla strage di piazza Fontana agli anni Ottanta (1969-1986), Carocci, 2019
- Paolo Pombeni, Lo stato e la politica. Quanto contano nel mondo globale di oggi, Il Mulino, nuova edizione aggiornata 2020
Bibliografia Di Riferimento
No additional readings are required.Modalità Erogazione
The course will consist of lectures; photographs and footage will also be employed.Modalità Frequenza
Attendance is strongly recommended but it is not mandatory.Modalità Valutazione
The assessment takes the form of an oral exam. The exam consists of several questions aimed at verifying the student's level of knowledge. The evaluation is based on the following criteria: knowledge of the main contents of the program; clarity, efficacy and accuracy of the vocabulary used by the student; the ability to show a critical approach.
scheda docente
materiale didattico
Programma
Main contents: The unification of Italy and the Europe of the Great Powers; the industrial revolution and the social question. the apogee of European power and the world; World War I and its consequences; totalitarianisms: Fascism, Bolshevism and Nazism; World War II; the Shoah, the bipolar world and the Cold War; decolonisation; the new republican Italy and its contradictions; USA and USSR; the gradual emergence of new protagonists: China, India; Africa and Latin America; the digital revolution; the collapse of communism and the new international order; post-communist societies; the European Union: construction and challenges; the new scenarios between the 20th and 21st centuries.Testi Adottati
1) L. Caracciolo-A. Roccucci, Storia contemporanea, Le Monnier Università, Milano 2017; Marco Bresciani - Fulvio Conti (a cura di), L'età contemporanea. Prospettive di storia europea e globale, Roma, Carocci, 2023; Mark Mazower, Le ombre dell'Europa. Democrazie e totalitarismi nel XX secolo, Milano, Garzanti, 2019.Bibliografia Di Riferimento
Carmine Pinto, La guerra per il Mezzogiorno. Italiani, borbonici e briganti. 1860-1870, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2019; Salvatore Lupo, Il fascismo. La politica di un regime totalitario, Feltrinelli, Milano 2013; Ian Kershaw, All'inferno e ritorno. Europa 1914-1949, Bari-Roma, Laterza, 2016; Id., L'Europa nel vortice. Dal 1950 a oggi, Barri-Roma, Laterza, 2018; Christopher Clark, I sonnambuli. Come l'Europa arrivò alla Grande guerra, Bari-Roma, Laterza, 2012; Lawrence Sondhaus, La Prima guerra mondiale. Una rivoluzione globale, Torino, Einaudi, 2018; Richard Overy, La grande guerra imperiale 1931-1945, Torino, Einaudi, 2022; Tony JJudt, Dopoguerra. Com'è cambiata l'Europa dal 1945 a oggi, Bari-Roma, Laterza, 2020; Luca Riccardi, Yalta, I tre grandi e la costruzione di un nuovo sistema internazionale, Soveria Mannelli, Rubbetino, 2021; Pierre Grosser, Dall’Asia al mondo. Un'altra visione del XX secolo, Torino, REinaudi, 2018; Massimo De Giuseppe-Gianni La Bella, Storia dell’America Latina contemporanea, il Mulino, Bologna 2019; Mario Del Pero, Libertà e impero. Gli Stati Uniti e il mondo 1776-2011, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2017, Guido Crainz, Storia della Repubblica. L'Italia dalla Liberazione ad oggi, Roma, Donzelli, 2019.Modalità Frequenza
not mandatory but strongly recommendedModalità Valutazione
Discussion with the teacher on some of the main issues touched upon during the course and addressed by the textbooks.