Teaching code

4S02147

Teacher

Renato Camurri

Credits

6

Also offered in courses:

• Contemporary History - MODULO 1 of the course Bachelor's degree in Philosophy
• Contemporary History (i) of the course Bachelor’s degree in Cultural Heritage
• Contemporary History (i) of the course Bachelor’s degree in Humanities

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

M-STO/04 - CONTEMPORARY HISTORY

Period

Sem 1A, Sem 1B

Lessons timetable Moodle Seminars 1

To show the organization of the course that includes this module, follow this link:  Course organization

Learning outcomes

Learning outcomes


The course is proposed as a starting point for the approach to the topics and methodologies of contemporary history. It intends to provide the knowledge of the main events of European history from 1789 to 1914 and is focused on political, cultural and social history in a comparative and transnational perspective.
At the end of the course, the student must be able to know: a) problems and methods of contemporary history, b) the periodicity related to the different phases of the so called “long nineeenth century”, c) the most relevant events of this period, knowing to distinguish between those general and those related to the different national realities, c) the most important political cultures, economics processes and social transformations that marks that period, e) historiographic interpretations.

Program

Syllabus


The first two lessons are dedicated to framing some of the main methodological questions concerning the study of contemporary history. Subsequently, the course focuses on the three great revolutions that mark the beginning of the contemporary age at the end of the eighteenth century: the industrial revolution, the American revolution and the French revolution that mark the start of the modernization of society and the beginning of the so called "long "nineteenth century”.
The remaining topics addressed will be the following:
-The bourgeois revolutions of 1848.
-The different processes of national unification and the transformations of political systems.
- The Risorgimento and the process of Italian unification.
- The new political balance in the liberal Europe.
- Italy in the so called liberal age.
- The first globalisation and the division of the world.
- The birth of mass society.
- The crisis of European political balances at the beginning of twentieth century.
- Italy in the Giolittian age.
- The origins of First World War.

Literature

1. Textbook

T. Detti-G. Gozzini, Storia contemporanea, vol. I, L’Ottocento, Pearson, 2016 (with the exclusion of the following chapters: 1 e 17)

2. One book among:

A.M. Banti, Sublime madre nostra. La nazione italiana dal Risorgimento al fascismo, Laterza, 2011 (e successive edizioni).
R. Romanelli, Ottocento. Lezioni di storia contemporanea, Il Mulino, 2011.
M. Isabella, Il Risorgimento in esilio. L’internazionale liberale e l’età delle rivoluzioni, Laterza, 2011.
F. Cammarano, Storia dell’Italia liberale, Laterza, 2011 (e successive edizioni).

Non-attending students must add the following text to the bibliography:

C. Pavone, Prima lezione di storia contemporanea, Laterza, 2007.

Didactic modes

The course includes the alternation between the lessons of the professor, the screening of films and audiovisual materials.

Examination Methods

Examination procedure

1. Assessment methods: structured written exam in open and closed questions.

2. Objectives: to verify the ability to disply concepts using appropriate historical terminoloy, the ability to link events and to place them adequately within the individual national contexts, the knowledge of the different historiographical interpretations of the most relevant historical processes.

3. Contents: the questions will focus on the topics covered during the course and developed in the volumes indicated in the bibliography.

4. Assessment methods: score expressed in thirtieths, resulting from the sum of the points assigned to each of the questions.

The regulation of the degree program requires compliance with the propaedeutics of the modules: it is therefore not possible to prepare the module P without having passed the module I.
Students are not advised to deal with the form I and the P form in the same appeal.

Other informations

The course is propaedeutic to the frequency of Contemporary History (P) which will take place in the second semester.

The required prerequisites are: basic knowledge of historical events between the mid-eighteenth century and early twentieth century.

Erasmus students (and students hosted with other international mobility programs) who attend classes, can choose between these different choises:

1. written exam (also in English).
2. oral exam (in English, French and Spanish)

For more details: contact the teacher during weekly office hours.

Corona Virus Emergency

A seguito delle decisioni assunte dalle autorità di Ateneo per l'emerganza Corona Virus, comunico che le prove di Storia contemporanea (I+P), si svolgeranno attraverso esame scritto on line. Le prove di Storia contemporanea (LM) si svolgeranno attraverso esame orale on line.