81721 - History of the Risorgimento and National Revolutions (1) (LM)

Learning outcomes

Nation-building and State-building phenomena, particularly in the early XIX century, will be the topics of the course. Secondly, the student must to place this process in the various continental contexts, identifying the fundamental characteristics. Third,  reconstruction of the Italian Risorgimento main stages, based on the latest Italian and international historiography, will be required.

Course contents

The course consists of two parts. The first presents the topics of the Italian Risorgimento in an European perspective. The second points on the history of the national flags as sources of cultural and political history

Lessons at disposal in the website can be chosen by attending students as alternative to Banti's or Mosse's books

Readings/Bibliography

 

1) Derek Beales, Eugenio F. Biagini, Il Risorgimento e l'unificazione italiana, Bologna, il Mulino, 2005;

2) two at choice between:

Alberto Mario Banti, L'onore della nazione. Identità sessuali e violenza nel nazionalismo europeo dal XVIII secolo alla Grande Guerra, Torino, Einaudi, 2005;

George L. Mosse, La nazionalizzazione delle masse, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1975;

Paolo Macry, Unità a Mezzogiorno, Bologna, Il Muino, 2012

3) teaching material on the website.

Students not attending have to study on the texts above:

1) Derek Beales, Eugenio F. Biagini, Il Risorgimento e l'unificazione italiana, Bologna, il Mulino, 2005;

2) Alberto Mario Banti, L'onore della nazione. Identità sessuali e violenza nel nazionalismo europeo dal XVIII secolo alla Grande Guerra, Torino, Einaudi, 2005;

3) George L. Mosse, La nazionalizzazione delle masse, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1975

4) Paolo Macry, Unità a Mezzogiorno, Bologna, Il Muino, 2012

Teaching methods

Lectures

Assessment methods

The exam is oral. There will be a debate on the books. Secondly, knowledge of the course contents will be tested (lessons).

If the student achieves a complete vision of the topics discussed in class and required for the discipline, a good knowledge of the texts of scholarship, shows mastery of expression and of the specific language, he will obtain excellence in the evaluation.

A student will be deemed to have failed the exam if he displays significant errors in his understanding and failure to grasp the overall outlines of the subject, together with a poor command of the appropriate terminology

Teaching tools

A PPT will be at disposal in the teaching material on the website with the lessons discussed during the course.

Office hours

See the website of Roberto Balzani