87418 - Contemporary History (M-Z)

Academic Year 2020/2021

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Forli
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in International relations and diplomatic affairs (cod. 8048)

Learning outcomes

This course introduces students to the analysis of XIX and XX centuries history. A special attention will be paid to political-institutional systems. The chronology of the course ranges from the European Revolutions of 1848 to the fall of the Berlin Wall (1989). The course provide a compared analysis of the main historical events which concerned Italy, France, Germany, Great Britain and Russia in addition to the most relevant extra-European facts.

Course contents

The course is organized with a part of lectures taught online on MS TEAMS (22 hours and another taught in presence (28hours). The number of students allowed in class is determined on the basis of class capacity and by the health and safety provisions that deal with the pandemic emergency. In case more students want to attend classes in presence than permitted by the rules, a system of shifts will be organized so to allow students to participate. Regardless of the health-related conditions and the specific organization of the course, students will be able to follow the lessons of the entire course remotely on MS TEAMS.

Course contents The course will be divided into 3 parts. The first part will focus on political transformation in Europe during the XIX century until the First World War. The second part will analyse the interwar period and the totalitarian political systems during the Twenties and Thirties. The last part of the course will concentrate on the Second post-war period, with particular attention on Cold War, transformation in European political systems and the development of Italian republican democracy

Readings/Bibliography

Fulvio Cammarano, Giulia Guazzaloca, Maria Serena Piretti, Storia contemporanea dal XIX al XX secolo, Firenze, Le Monnier, 2015.

Una monografia a scelta tra le seguenti:

  1. Brizzi R., Sbetti N., Storia della coppa del mondo di calcio (1930-2018) Politica, sport, globalizzazione, Le Monnier, 2018.
  2. Colucci Michele, Storia dell'immigrazione straniera in Italia. Dal 1945 ai nostri giorni, Carocci 2018.
  3. Deplano V., La madrepatria è una terra straniera, Mondadori, 2017.
  4. Guazzaloca G., Primo: non maltrattare. Storia della protezione degli animali in Italia, Laterza, 2018.
  5. Laschi, Deplano, Pes, Europa in movimento, Il Mulino, 2018.
  6. Santese A., La pace atomica. Ronald Reagan e il movimento antinucleare (1979-1987), Le Monnier, 2016.
  7. Sarfatti Michele, La Shoah in Italia, Einaudi, 2005.
  8. Sbetti N, Giochi di potere. Olimpiadi e politica da Atene a Londra, 1896-2012, Le Monnier, 2012
  9. Tulli U., Un parlamento per l'Europa, Mondadori, 2017.
  10. Poesio Camilla, Tutto è ritmo, tutto è swing. Il jazz, il fascismo e la società italiana, Mondadori, 2018.

Not attending students:

Fulvio Cammarano, Giulia Guazzaloca, Maria Serena Piretti, Storia contemporanea dal XIX al XX secolo, Firenze, Le Monnier, 2015.

Two books of your choice:

    1. Brizzi R., Sbetti N., Storia della coppa del mondo di calcio (1930-2018) Politica, sport, globalizzazione, Le Monnier, 2018.
    2. Colucci Michele, Storia dell'immigrazione straniera in Italia. Dal 1945 ai nostri giorni, Carocci 2018.
    3. Deplano V., La madrepatria è una terra straniera, Mondadori, 2017.
    4. Guazzaloca G., Primo: non maltrattare. Storia della protezione degli animali in Italia, Laterza, 2018.
    5. Laschi, Deplano, Pes, Europa in movimento, Il Mulino, 2018.
    6. Santese A., La pace atomica. Ronald Reagan e il movimento antinucleare (1979-1987), Le Monnier, 2016.
    7. Sarfatti Michele, La Shoah in Italia, Einaudi, 2005.
    8. Sbetti N, Giochi di potere. Olimpiadi e politica da Atene a Londra, 1896-2012, Le Monnier, 2012
    9. Tulli U., Un parlamento per l'Europa, Mondadori, 2017.
    10. Poesio Camilla, Tutto è ritmo, tutto è swing. Il jazz, il fascismo e la società italiana, Mondadori, 2018.

Teaching methods

25 two hours classes

Official language: Italian

Assessment methods

For attending students:

Students who have been attending the written examinations, will have to undergo a spoken exam at the end of the course. The final spoken exam should be attended on the institutional and monographic part

Teaching tools

Powerpoint, movies

Office hours

See the website of Giuliana Laschi