CONTEMPORARY HISTORY

Frontal lessons

A good basic knowledge of contemporary history: the main events, Italian and international, characterizing the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Attendance of lessons Not compulsory, but also recommended because it can allow access to ongoing tests.

Will investigate the following themes: the birth and evolution of the European continent in late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; the Birth of new social classes: workers and middle-class in the new nation-states, between the Marxist tradition and the contemporary historiography; Capitalism between imperialism and colonialism; The national unification in Italy and Germany; The nationalization of the masses; Liberal Italy; The age of the crisis; Fascism and Nazism; The '"golden age" of the economy; Cold War and decolonization.

AaVv., Storia contemporanea, manuali Donzelli, ult. ed., limitatamente ai seguenti capitoli: 3. L’età dell’industria (C. Fumian); 4. La società e le classi (P. Macry); 5. L’unificazione nazionale in Italia e in Germania (M. Meriggi); 6. La nazionalizzazione delle masse (A. M. Banti); 7. L’Italia liberale (R. Romanelli); 10. Imperialismo e colonialismo (G. Barone); 14. Tra le due guerre: l’età della crisi (G. Berta); 15. Fascismo e Nazismo (S. Lupo);18. L’«età dell’oro» dell’economia (M. Franzini); 19. Guerra fredda e decolonizzazione (F. Romero); 20. Italia Repubblicana (G. Crainz).

All topics will be questioned. By way of example, the following are indicated: First and second industrial revolution; Differences between Italian unification and German unification; The forms of imperialism; Indicators, characteristics and limits of the golden age; The crisis of 29; Nazism and Fascism: Similarities and Differences.