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. The student will also be able to know the guidelines of international politics, in particular in relation to the World Wars, Cold War and decolonization processes.

Course contents

The course will be based on the analysis of XIX and XX centuries history.

It will focus on social and political transformation in Europe during the XIX century since the unification of Italy and Germany. Then, it 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, after WWII and the Resistance, with particular attention on Cold War, transformation in European political systems and the development of Italian republican democracy.

Readings/Bibliography

INSTITUTIONAL PART

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

Lessons only for attending-students

LIST OF CHOSEN BOOKS (ATTENDING AND NON-ATTENTING STUDENTS)

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

- Brizzi R., Lazar M., La Francia di Macron, Il Mulino, 2017

- Brizzi R., Sbetti N., Storia della Coppa del mondo di calcio (1930-2018). Politica, sport, globalizzazione, Le Monnier, 2018 + Sbetti N., Giochi di potere. Olimpiadi e politica da Atene a Londra 1896-2012, Le Monnier, 2012 (the two books are together)

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

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

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

- Carbone G., L'Africa. Gli stati, la politica, i conflitti, Il Mulino, 2012

- 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 + Tonelli A., A scuola di politica: il modello comunista di Frattocchie (1944-1993), Laterza, 2017 (the two books are together) 

- Corni G., Hitler, Il Mulino, 2007 + Breuilly J., La formazione dello Stato nazionale tedesco, Il Mulino, 2004 (the two books are together)

- Dondi M., Salustri S. (a cura di), Sessantotto. Luoghi e rappresentazioni di un evento mondiale, Unicopli, 2018 + Flores M., Gozzini G., 1968. Un anno spartiacque, Il Mulino, 2018 (the two books are together)

- Formigoni G., Aldo Moro. Lo statista e il suo dramma, Il Mulino, 2016

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

- Gentile E., Ascesa e declino dell'Europa nel mondo 1898-1918, Garzanti, 2018

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

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

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

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

- Panarari M., Poteri e informazione. Teorie della comunicazione e storia della manipolazione politica in Italia (1850-1930), Le Monnier, 2017 + Salustri S., Orientare l’opinione pubblica. Mezzi di comunicazione e propaganda politica nell’Italia fascista, Unicopli, 2018 (the two books are together)

- Pombeni P. (a cura), Storia dei partiti italiani, Il Mulino, 2016

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

- Revelant A., Il Giappone moderno dall'Ottocento al 1945, Einaudi, 2018

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

- Salustri S., Un Ateneo in camicia nera. L’Università di Bologna nel periodo fascista, Carocci, 2010

- 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

- Wieviorka O., Storia della Resistenza nell'Europa occidentale 1940-1945, Einaudi, 2018

Teaching methods

Frontal lectures

Assessment methods

ATTENTING STUDENTS:

Two written mid-term tests composed of 6 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 and on the book in the institutional part of the syllabus.

Students who have obtained a positive evaluation of both the written mid-term tests will have to undergo an oral exam at the exam sessions on the monographic part in order to demonstrate how confident they 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 oral part.

Students who have not passed one of the written mid-term tests will have to undergo a written test, composed of 10 questions, on the book in the institutional part of the syllabus. The test will be held in the examination sessions.

Students who obtain a positive evaluation of the written test will have to undergo an oral exam on the monographic part in order to demonstrate how confident they 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 oral part.

NON ATTENTING STUDENTS:

A written test - composed of 10 questions about the book in the institutional part of the syllabus for students not attending the course - will be held in the examination session. An oral exam after a satisfactory written examination should be attended on the 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 oral part.

 

TUTORIAL COURSE:

A tutorial course is planned mainly aimed at working students who are unable to follow the teacher's lessons.

Teaching tools

PC and slides

Office hours

See the website of Simona Salustri