00932 - Contemporary History (M-Z)

Academic Year 2015/2016

  • 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