- Docente: Michele Marchi
- Credits: 12
- SSD: M-STO/04
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Ravenna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Mediterranean Societies and Cultures: Institutions, Security, Environment (cod. 5696)
Learning outcomes
The course aims at reconstructing the historical and political evolution of the Mediterranean area. Employing an extended definition of the latter, the course will place particular emphasis on the interactions between the basin's northern and southern shores and between its Western and Eastern areas. Classes will examine in depth the most important events of the Eighteenth Century, moving on to the Napoleonic era and finally focusing on the evolution of Nation States, as well as on the slow but inexorable erosion of the Ottoman Empire. This will be done by devoting particular attention to the interweaving of regional international relations and domestic policies, as well as to the interrelation between the economic and social evolution of the area. The European thirty years' war will constitute a prelude to the Mediterranean Cold War and to the regional impact of the establishment of the Israeli State in the Middle Eastern area. Moreover, the analysis will touch upon the interaction attempts between the northern and southern shores of the basin, taking into account the mediation role of the European integration process. By the end of the course, students will be able to historicise the main historical-political events of the Mediterranean area in the period spanning from the great geographical discoveries to the end of the bipolar world order.
Course contents
The purpose of the course is to provide students with a general picture of the historical and political context of the Mediterranean area, starting from the XVIII century and exploring its evolution up until the aftermath of the Cold War. The course will be structured along three different sections. While the first two will be devoted to the XVIII and XIX centuries, the third will concern the so-called "long Twentieth century". The main aim of the course is to describe and explain the historical and political evolution of the Mediterranean area by taking into account the interactions among the most prominent State actors of the area itself. As a further hallmark of the course, particular attention will be devoted to the interrelation of the historical and political dynamics of the Mediterranean area and those of other geopolitical areas, such as the Atlantic, Asian and African ones. Indeed, while external, these geopolitical realities are still closely related to the Mediterranean, especially in particular historical phases such as the main stages of Imperialism and the Cold War. Lastly, the course will place a special emphasis on the interweaving of the national, imperial and supranational governance dimensions, as well as on the interrelation of the socio-cultural, religious dimension and the political one.
Readings/Bibliography
1st Section – The Mediterranean in the XVIII Century's world (15 hours)
An English sea
An Ottoman sea
The foray of the Russian "giant"
Napoleon's hegemonic attempt
The Mediterranean at the Congress of Vienna
2nd Section – The return at the centre (15 hours)
Between constitutionalism and nation (Italy and Greece through a continental persepective)
An “Eastern Question” (Farther than Crimea)
Algeria and Egypt
Suez: the end of the “enclosed sea”
The scramble for Africa before and after Bismarck
3rd Section - The long Mediterranean 20th Century (30 hours)
The thirty years' war and the Mediterranean
The end of the “Mediterranean empires”
A Mediterranean fascism?
A new Mediterranean totalitarian order?
Cold War and decolonisation: the unusual entanglement
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict from its origins to Yom Kippur
The oil shock and the new Mediterranean order
The foray of political Islam
The end of the bipolar world and the enlarged Mediterranean
Textbooks/Bibliography
ATTENDING STUDENTS:
- Lessons' contents
- F. Canale Cama-D. Casanova-R.M. Delli Quadri, Storia del Mediterraneo moderno e contemporaneo, Guida Editori, 2017
One of the following volumes:
B. Carter Hett, Morte della democrazia. L'ascesa di Hitler e il crollo della Repubblica di Weimar, Einaudi, 2019
D. Caviglia – M. Cricco (a cura di), La diplomazia italiana e gli equilibri mediterranei. La politica mediorientale dell’Italia dalla Guerra dei sei giorni al conflitto dello Yom Kippur, Rubbettino, 2006 + F. Imperato-L. Monzali (a cura di), Fra diplomazia e petrolio. Aldo Moro e la politica italiana in Medio Oriente, Cacucci, 2018
F. Cresti-M. Cricco, Storia della Libia contemporanea, Carocci, 2015 + G. Gozzi, Umano, non umano. Intervento umanitario, colonialismo, primavere arabe, Il Mulino, 2015
S. Cruciani-M. Ridolfi (a cura di), L’Unione europea e il Mediterraneo. Relazioni internazionali, crisi politiche e regionali (1947-2016), Franco Angeli, 2017 + S. Cruciani-M. Ridolfi (a cura di), L’Unione europea e il Mediterraneo. Interdipendenza politica e rappresentazioni mediatiche (1947-2017), Franco Angeli, 2018
V. De Cesaris, Il grande sbarco. L'Italia e la scoperta dell'immigrazione, Guerini e Associati, 2018+M. Colucci, Storia dell’immigrazione straniera in Italia dal 1945 a oggi, Carocci, 2018
M. Emiliani, Medio Oriente. Una storia dal 1918 al 1991, Laterza, 2019+M. Emiliani, Purgatorio arabo. Il tradimento delle rivoluzioni in Medio Oriente, Laterza, 2020
S. Faroqhi, L’Impero ottomano, Il Mulino, 2018 + E. Ivetic, Le guerre balcaniche, Il Mulino, 2016
O. Figes, Crimea. L’ultima crociata, Einaudi, 2015
P. Gatrell, L'inquietudine dell'Europa. Come la migrazione ha rimodellato un continente, Einaudi, 2020
J.L. Gelvin, Storia del Medio Oriente moderno, Einaudi, 2021
A.E. Gfeller, Building a European Identity, Berghahn Books, 2014
P. Hansen-Jonsson, Eurafrica. The Untold History of European Integration and Colonialism, Bloomsbury, 2015
E. Hosch, Storia dei Paesi balcanici, Einaudi, 2005
L. Kamel, Dalle profezie all’Impero. L’espansione britannica nel Mediterraneo orientale (1798-1878), Carocci, 2015 + O. Barié, Dall’Impero britannico all’impero americano, Le Lettere, 2013
G. Kepel, Uscire dal caos. Le crisi nel Mediterraneo e nel Medio Oriente, Cortina Editore, 2019
S. Labbate, Illusioni mediterranee. Il dialogo euro-arabo, Le Monnier, 2016 + C. Vercelli, Storia del conflitto israelo-palestinese, Laterza, 2020
L. Mascilli Migliorini, Napoleone, Salerno, 2015
S. McMeekin, Il crollo dell’Impero ottomano, 2017
L. Riccardi, L’ultima politica estera. L’Italia e il Medio Oriente alla fine della Prima Repubblica, Rubbettino, 2014 + A. Varsori, L’Italia e la fine della guerra fredda, Il Mulino, 2013
E.J. Zurcher, Porta d’Oriente. Una storia della Turchia dal ‘700 a oggi, Marsilio, 2016
NON-ATTENDING STUDENTS:
F. Canale Cama-D. Casanova-R.M. Delli Quadri, Storia del Mediterraneo moderno e contemporaneo, Guida Editori, 2017
G. Galasso, Storia d’Europa, Laterza, 2016, (pp. 281-1000)
Two of the following volumes:
B. Carter Hett, Morte della democrazia. L'ascesa di Hitler e il crollo della Repubblica di Weimar, Einaudi, 2019
D. Caviglia – M. Cricco (a cura di), La diplomazia italiana e gli equilibri mediterranei. La politica mediorientale dell’Italia dalla Guerra dei sei giorni al conflitto dello Yom Kippur, Rubbettino, 2006 + F. Imperato-L. Monzali (a cura di), Fra diplomazia e petrolio. Aldo Moro e la politica italiana in Medio Oriente, Cacucci, 2018
F. Cresti-M. Cricco, Storia della Libia contemporanea, Carocci, 2015 + G. Gozzi, Umano, non umano. Intervento umanitario, colonialismo, primavere arabe, Il Mulino, 2015
S. Cruciani-M. Ridolfi (a cura di), L’Unione europea e il Mediterraneo. Relazioni internazionali, crisi politiche e regionali (1947-2016), Franco Angeli, 2017 + S. Cruciani-M. Ridolfi (a cura di), L’Unione europea e il Mediterraneo. Interdipendenza politica e rappresentazioni mediatiche (1947-2017), Franco Angeli, 2018
V. De Cesaris, Il grande sbarco. L'Italia e la scoperta dell'immigrazione, Guerini e Associati, 2018+M. Colucci, Storia dell’immigrazione straniera in Italia dal 1945 a oggi, Carocci, 2018
M. Emiliani, Medio Oriente. Una storia dal 1918 al 1991, Laterza, 2019+M. Emiliani, Purgatorio arabo. Il tradimento delle rivoluzioni in Medio Oriente, Laterza, 2020
S. Faroqhi, L’Impero ottomano, Il Mulino, 2018 + E. Ivetic, Le guerre balcaniche, Il Mulino, 2016
O. Figes, Crimea. L’ultima crociata, Einaudi, 2015
P. Gatrell, L'inquietudine dell'Europa. Come la migrazione ha rimodellato un continente, Einaudi, 2020
J.L. Gelvin, Storia del Medio Oriente moderno, Einaudi, 2021
A.E. Gfeller, Building a European Identity, Berghahn Books, 2014
P. Hansen-Jonsson, Eurafrica. The Untold History of European Integration and Colonialism, Bloomsbury, 2015
E. Hosch, Storia dei Paesi balcanici, Einaudi, 2005
L. Kamel, Dalle profezie all’Impero. L’espansione britannica nel Mediterraneo orientale (1798-1878), Carocci, 2015 + O. Barié, Dall’Impero britannico all’impero americano, Le Lettere, 2013
G. Kepel, Uscire dal caos. Le crisi nel Mediterraneo e nel Medio Oriente, Cortina Editore, 2019
S. Labbate, Illusioni mediterranee. Il dialogo euro-arabo, Le Monnier, 2016 + C. Vercelli, Storia del conflitto israelo-palestinese, Laterza, 2020
L. Mascilli Migliorini, Napoleone, Salerno, 2015
S. McMeekin, Il crollo dell’Impero ottomano, 2017
L. Riccardi, L’ultima politica estera. L’Italia e il Medio Oriente alla fine della Prima Repubblica, Rubbettino, 2014 + A. Varsori, L’Italia e la fine della guerra fredda, Il Mulino, 2013
E.J. Zurcher, Porta d’Oriente. Una storia della Turchia dal ‘700 a oggi, Marsilio, 2016
Teaching methods
- classroom-taught lessons, video and power-point support
Assessment methods
ATTENDING STUDENTS:
A written examination at the end of the two first sections, on the lessons' material and the first part of the textbook.
A written examination at the end of the third section, on the lessons' material and the second part of the textbook.
An oral examination concerning the chosen volume and, if deemed necessary by the professor, on the lessons' material.
NON-ATTENDING STUDENTS:
A written examination on the textbooks. An oral examination concerning the chosen volumes and, if deemed necessary by the professor, on the textbooks.
Office hours
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