00932 - Contemporary History

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course, the student should know the main processes of political-institutional and socio-economic transformation occurring in Europe and outside Europe from the end of 800 to the Seventies of the 900.

Course contents

The course will be based on the analysis of XIX and XX centuries history. The course will focus on social and political transformation in Europe during the XIX century since the unification of Italy and Germany. Then, the course will analyse the First World War 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

PART 1) INSTITUTIONAL PART OF THE SYLLABUS

Institutional part of the syllabus for not attending students (compulsory readings)

1. F. Cammarano, G. Guazzaloca, M.S. Piretti, Storia contemporanea. Dal XIX al XXI secolo, Le Monnier-Mondadori, Milano, 2015 (chap. 1 to 15).

2. Parole e Materiali per la Storia Contemporanea, Bologna, Baiesi, 2002

Institutional part of the syllabus for attending students (compulsory readings)

1. F. Cammarano, G. Guazzaloca, M.S. Piretti, Storia contemporanea. Dal XIX al XXI secolo, Le Monnier-Mondadori, Milano, 2015 (chap. 1 to 15)

2. Lessons

PART 2) MONOGRAPHIC PART FOR ATTENDING AND NOT ATTENDING STUDENTS

The list of monographs, from which the student will choose one for the oral exam, is the same for students attending and not attending the classes.

- Botta S. (ed.), L'Italia degli altri. Storia dell'Italia contemporanea vista da fuori, Rubbettino, 2012 + Woolf S., L'Italia repubblicana vista da fuori (1945-2000), Il Mulino, 2007 (pp. 9-129) – The books should be studied together

- Brizzi R., Marchi M., Charles De Gaulle, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2008

- Brizzi R., Marchi M., Storia politica della Francia repubblicana, 1870-2011, Mondadori-Le Monnier, 2011

- Cammarano F., Storia dell’Italia liberale, Laterza, 2011

- Cammarano F., Marchi M. (eds.), Il mondo ci guarda. L'unificazione italiana nella stampa e nell'opinione pubblica internazionali (1859-1861), Le Monnier, 2011

- Cammarano F. (ed.), Abbasso la Guerra! Neutralisti in piazza alla vigilia della Prima guerra mondiale in Italia, Le Monnier 2015

- Cammarano F., Cavazza S. (eds.), Il nemico in politica. La delegittimazione dell’avversario nell’Europa contemporanea, Il Mulino, 2010

- Colarizi S., Storia politica della Repubblica. 1943-2006. Partiti, Movimenti, istituzioni, Laterza, 2007

- Conti A., Dirigenti comunisti. Reclutamento, selezione e formazione in una regione rossa, Carocci, 2017

- Corni G., Hitler, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2007 + Breuilly J., La formazione dello Stato nazionale tedesco, Il Mulino, 2004 - The books should be studied together.

- Gentile E., La via italiana al totalitarismo. Il partito e lo Stato nel regime fascista, Carocci, 2008

- Guazzaloca G., Primo: non maltrattare. Storia della protezione degli animali in Italia, Laterza, 2018

- Guazzaloca G., Una e divisibile. la RAI, la televisione e i partiti negli anni del monopolio pubblico (1954-1975), Mondadori-Le Monnier, 2011

- Guazzaloca G., Storia della Gran Bretagna contemporanea, Mondadori-Le Monnier, 2015

- Laschi G. (ed.), Memoria d'Europa: riflessioni su dittature, autoritarismo, bonapartismo e svolte democratiche, Angeli, 2012

- Marchi M. Alla ricerca del cattolicesimo politico. Politica e religione in Francia da Petain a de Gaulle, Rubbettino, 2012

-Pombeni P., Che cosa resta del '68, Il Mulino, 2018 + Flores M., Gozzini G., 1968. Un anno spartiacque, Il Mulino, 2018 ) - The books should be studied together.

- Pons S., La rivoluzione globale. Storia del comunismo internazionale 1917-1991, Einaudi, 2012

- Price R., Le rivoluzioni del 1848, Il Mulino, 2004 + Botta S., Gli Stati Italiani preunitari, Archetipo, 2011 (pp. 11- 84) - The books should be studied together.

- Ridolfi M., Italia a Colori. Storia selle passioni politiche dalla caduta del fascismo ad oggi, Le Monnier, 2015

- Romero F., Storia della guerra fredda. L'ultimo conflitto per l'Europa, Torino, Einaudi, 2009

- Salustri S., Orientare l’opinione pubblica. Mezzi di comunicazione e propaganda politica nell’Italia fascista, Unicopli, 2018 + Salustri S., Un Ateneo in camicia nera. L’Università di Bologna nel periodo fascista, Carocci, 2010 - The books should be studied together

- Santese A., La pace atomica. Ronald Reagan e il movimento antinucleare (1979-1987), Le Monnier, 2016

- Testi A., Il secolo degli Stati Uniti, Il Mulino 2008

- Zanatta L., Storia dell'America latina contemporanea, Laterza, 2010

Teaching methods

Teaching methods are basically founded on frontal lectures.

Assessment methods

STUDENTS ATTENDING THE CLASSES

- Two short written examinations composed of 10 open 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 PART 1 of bibliography for students attending the course. 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 about the monographic part in order to demonstrate how confident the students are with the analysis of particular problems and events of contemporary history. The oral exam will be based on a book that the student have to choose in one of the sections in PART 2 of the bibliography (monographic part).

The final evaluation will be given as an average between the written and the spoken proofs.

STUDENTS NOT ATTENDING THE CLASSES

A written examination, composed of 10 open questions about the books in PART 1 of biblioghaphy for students not attending the course, will be held at the end of the course. A spoken exam after a satisfactory written examination should be attended about the monographic part in order to demonstrate how confident the students are with the analysis of particular problems and events of contemporary history. The oral exam will be based on a book that the student have to choose in one of the sections in PART 2 of the bibliography (monographic part).

The final evaluation will be given as an average between the written and the spoken exam.

Office hours

See the website of Giulia Guazzaloca

See the website of Simona Salustri