Unit Modern History
- Course
- Political sciences and international relations
- Study-unit Code
- A001330
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Regina Lupi
- Teachers
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- Regina Lupi
- Hours
- 70 ore - Regina Lupi
- CFU
- 10
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2022
- Offered
- 2022/23
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Discipline storico-politiche
- Academic discipline
- M-STO/02
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- The course concerns political models and systems of the Early Modern Age, so it will provide a survey of history from 1453 to 1848, with a special focus on political and social aspects.
- Reference texts
- The required readings will be indicated at the start of the course.
- Educational objectives
- After completing the course the student will have basic knowledge about:
Social and political models of the Modern Age and their evolution;
The origins of the modern state and the international system;
Historiographical perspectives.
Students will acquire the following skills:
identify the remote origins of political phenomena;
find useful tools in the past to understand the present time;
practice a critical approach using various and appropriate interpretation criteria. - Prerequisites
- In order to attend usefully the course, the student needs a good knowledge of Italian and basic notions of history and geography.
- Teaching methods
- 70 hours of lectures
- Learning verification modality
- The modality of assessment will be defined depending on the evolution of the health emergency.
- Extended program
- The course concerns political models and systems realized of the early Modern Age, so it will analyze the main phenomena from 1453 to 1848, with a special focus on political and social aspects. Lectures will be focused on the following topics: the idea of ‘modernity’, the society of the ancien régime: social and political aspects; geographical discoveries and colonialism; Reformation and Counter-reformation; the age of Elisabeth I and Philip II; the Thirty Years’ war; the English Revolutions; the age of absolutism: Luis XIV; Mercantilism, the scientific revolution; the wars of the XVIII century; the slave trade; Enlightenment and reforms; the American Revolution, the French Revolution; the Napoleonic age; the Congress of Vienna; Restoration; the industrial revolution.