- Docente: Giuliana Laschi
- Credits: 10
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: In-person learning (entirely or partially)
- Campus: Forli
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in International relations and diplomatic affairs (cod. 8048)
Learning outcomes
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
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
Attending Students
PARTE ISTITUZIONALE:
1- Fulvio Cammarano, Giulia Guazzaloca, Maria Serena Piretti , Storia contemporanea dal XIX al XX secolo, Firenze, Le Monnier, 2015.
2- Stefano Cavazza e Paolo Pombeni (a cura di), Introduzione alla storia contemporanea, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2012 (Solo capitoli: I, II, IV prima prova; VII, XX, XXI seconda prova; VIII, XXVII, XXXIV terza prova)
PARTE MONOGRAFICA:
Gli studenti frequentanti devono preparare una monografia
1) Brizzi R., L'uomo dello schermo. De Gaulle e i media, Il Mulino, 2010.
2) Brizzi R., Marchi M., Storia politica della Francia repubblicana, Le Monnier, 2011.
3) Cammarano F., Storia politica dell'Italia liberale,
Laterza, 2011
4) Cammarano F. (a cura di), Abbasso la guerra! Neutralisti in
piazza alla vigilia della prima guerra mondiale in Italia, Le
Monnier, 2015. (fino a pagina 166 + i casi locali di Bologna,
Torino e Milano).
5) Cavazza S., Dimensione massa, Il Mulino, 2004.
6) Cavazza S., Scarpellini E., La rivoluzione dei Consumi, Il Mulino, 2010.
7) Colarizi S., Novecento d'Europa, Laterza, 2015.
8) Cominelli L., L'Italia sotto tutela. Stati Uniti, Europa e crisi italiana degli anni Settanta, Le Monnier, 2014.
9) Del Pero M., Gavin V., Guirao F., Varsori A., Democrazie. L'Europa meridionale e la fine delle ditatture, Le Monnier, 2011.
10) Gentile E., La via italiana al totalitarismo. Il partito e lo stato nel regime fascista, Carocci, 2008
11) Giovagnoli A., Il caso Moro: una tragedia repubblicana, Il Mulino, 2009.
12) Graziosi A., L'Unione Sovietica, 1914-1991, Il Mulino, 2011.
13) Guazzaloca G., Una e divisibile. la RAI, la televisione e i partiti negli anni del monopolio pubblico (1954-1975), Le Monnier, 2011
14) Guazzaloca G., Storia della Gran Bretagna 1832-2014, Le Monnier, 2015
15) Lomellini V., Varsori A., Dal Sessantotto al crollo del Muro. I movimenti di protesta in Europa a cavallo tra i due blocchi, Franco Angeli, 2014.
16) Pons S., La rivoluzione globale. Storia del comunismo
internazionale 1917-1991, Einaudi, 2012
17) Sbetti N, Giochi di potere. Olimpiadi e politica da Atene a
Londra, 1896-2012, Le Monnier, 2012
18) P. Scoppola, La Repubblica dei partiti. Evoluzione e crisi di un sistema politico, 1945-1996, Il Mulino, 2006.
19) Tulli U., Tra diritti umani e distensione: l'amministrazione Carter e il dissenso in URSS, Franco Angeli, 2013.
Teaching methods
25 two hours classes
Official language: Italian
Assessment methods
For attending students:
1. Three short written examinations composed of 10 open questions and 10 closed questions will be held during the classes in order to understand how familiar the students have become with the arguments of the course. The questions will be based on the lessons of the teacher and on the books in the institutional part of the syllabus.
2. 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 in order to demonstrate how confident the students are with the analysis of particular problems and events of contemporary history.
The final evaluation will be given as an average between the written and the spoken proofs.
For non-attending students:
1. An open answer questionnaire of 15 items
2. An oral examination
The final evaluation will be given as an average between the written and the spoken proofs.
Teaching tools
Powerpoint, movies, archival documents
Office hours
See the website of Giuliana Laschi