81720 - Global History of the Long Nineteenth Century (1) (LM)

Academic Year 2019/2020

  • Docente: Ilaria Porciani
  • Credits: 6
  • SSD: M-STO/04
  • Language: English
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in History and Oriental Studies (cod. 8845)

Learning outcomes

This course offers a multifaceted portrait of a world in deep transition. Students will become familiar with a truly comparative and global approach to the complex forces that drove global change during the "long nineteenth century." Students will approach constitutional issues, structures and models of education, the construction of nation states and empires in comparative perspective, as well as the relationships between human beings and nature and gender relations.

Course contents

We will read and discuss Jurgen Osterhammel' s book The Transformation of the World, Princeton, Princeton University Press, any edition.

We will focus on the following chapters:

Introduction

Chapter I Memory and Self-observation

Chapter II Time

Chapter III Space

Chapter IV Mobilities

Chapter V Living Standards

Chapter VI Cities

Chapter VII Frontiers

Chapter VIII Imperial systems and nation-states

Chapter XV The State

Chapter XIV Networks

Chapter XV Hierarchies

Chapter XIV Knowledge

Conclusion

Readings/Bibliography

Jurgen Osterhammel The Transformation of the World, Princeton, Princeton University Press, any edition.

Assessment methods

Teaching will be in seminar form, so students will need to attend all lessons, read the texts as and when assigned, and take an active part in the discussion.

Students attending at least 12 classes will be able to produce a written paper (8000 signs) .

Those unable to do so can always opt for an oral exam, as foreseen by the following programme : J. Osterhammel, The Transformation of the World. A Gobal History of the Nineteenth Century, Princeton and Oxford, Princeton University Press, 2009 - chapters indicated in the previous section.

Thorough in-depth knowledge of the topics covered in the course, together with analytical and critical skills and command of the specific language, will qualify for top marks (30-30L).

A good grasp of the topics covered in the course, together with good critical analysis and command of the specific language, will qualify for high marks (27-29).

A more mechanical and less articulate grasp, and/or correct use of language though not always appropriate, will qualify for a medium-range mark (23-26).

Weak analytical capacity and frequently inappropriate language – together with some knowledge of exam material – will receive a pass mark or little more (18-22).

 

written papers

Teaching tools

web resources for historians

Office hours

See the website of Ilaria Porciani