03342 - Contemporary History II

Learning outcomes

The course is intended to explain to the students the transformation of the postwar European society

Course contents

The course is intended to analyse the transformation that lead to the birth of a consumer society in Europe. After reconstructing the post-war renaissance of the European economy, the course will focus the changes in the sixties and seventies. The course will analyse particularly the conflict between generations in the sixties and the relationship between social and cultural modification and the political sphere in the sixties and seventies.

Readings/Bibliography

Bibliography
Students attendig classes: sillabus and reading list will be online before course's beginning on this page:
http://didattica.spbo.unibo.it/cgi-bin/adon.cgi?act=idx&sid=35

Non attending students
a) course of 6 ECTS students must choose 2 books from the list
b) Students of Storia contemporanea II must choose 1 book from the list
J.Brewer and F. Trentmann (a cura di), Consuming Cultures, Global Perspectives: Historical Trajectories, Transnational Exchanges. Oxford and New York,Berg, 20061
Paolo Capuzzo (a cura di), Genere, generazione e consumi: l'Italia degli anni Sessanta, Roma Carocci, 2003.
A. Cardini, Il miracolo economico italiano (1958-1963), Bologna, Il Mulino, 2006
S. Cavazza (a cura di), La rinascita dell'occidente, Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino, 2006 + S. Cavazza (a cura di), L'occidente come forma di  costruzione del consenso, Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino, 2006
Victoria de Grazia, L'impero irresistibile . la società dei consumi americana alla conquista del mondo, Torino, Einaudi, 2006
Hartmut Kaelble, Sozialgeschichte Europas. 1945 bis zur Gegenwart, Bonn, Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung 2007.
Hartmut Kaelble (a cura di), The European Way, New York, Berghan Books, 2004
Ina Merkel, Utopie und Bedürfnis. Die Geschichte der Konsumkultur in der DDR, Köln – Weimar - Wien, Böhlau, 1999
M. Flores - A. De Bernardi, Il Sessantotto, Bologna., Il Mulino, 2003.
H. G. Hockerts (a cura di), Drei Wege deutscher Sozialstaatlichkeit. NS-Diktatur, Bundesrepublik und DDR im Vergleich, a cura di, München, Oldenbourg, 1998
C. Marino, Biografia del Sessantotto. Utopie, conquiste, sbandamenti, Milano,. Bompiani, 2004
Emanuela Scarpellini, L'Italia dei consumi. Dalla belle Époque al nuovo millennio, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2007A. Sangiovanni, Tute blu. La parabola operaia nell'Italia repubblicana, Donzelli, 2006
C. Spagnolo, La stabilizzazione incompiuta. Il piano Marshall in Italia (1947-1952), Roma Carocci, 2001
M. Tolomelli, Terrorismo e società. Il pubblico dibattito in Italia e in Germania negli anni Settanta, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2006
F. Trentmann, Free Trade Nation. Commerce, Consumption and Civil Society in Modern Britain, Oxford, Oxford UP, 2008

Teaching methods

lecture and discussion group

Assessment methods

 Students attending  classes: participation ( 25%) + written examination (with  closed book) (75% of the final grade)
Erasmus and overseas students attending classes
Erasmus and overseas students can use English, German or French for the written examination.

Students that don't attend classes: oral examination

Teaching tools

Beamer

Links to further information

http://didattica.spbo.unibo.it/pais/cavazza/index.html

Office hours

See the website of Stefano Cavazza