Unit CONTEMPORARY HISTORY
- Course
- Investigation and security sciences
- Study-unit Code
- GP004293
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Andrea Spiri
- Teachers
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- Andrea Spiri
- Andrea Possieri (Codocenza)
- Hours
- 48 ore - Andrea Spiri
- 6 ore (Codocenza) - Andrea Possieri
- CFU
- 9
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2023
- Offered
- 2023/24
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Discipline antropologiche, storico-geografiche e psico-pedagogiche
- Academic discipline
- M-STO/04
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- italian
- Contents
- After several introductory lessons, this course will focus on the analytical categories necessary to understand and to answer the fundamental questions posed by XIXth - XXth century political history, from an italian and european perspective.
- Reference texts
- 1. G. SABBATUCCI – V. VIDOTTO, Il mondo contemporaneo, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2019 (rist. 2022). In particular, the chapters: 1-18, 19-20, 22-26 e 29).
2. A. POSSIERI, Garibaldi, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2010 (e-book 2011). - Educational objectives
- The student will master the most important historical-political episodes in the current debate on the contemporary history.
Ability to employ the conceptual tools and analytical categories used during lessons, knowledge of major historical facts and their immediate and remote causes and consequences, correct use and knowledge of historical maps, ability to critically and autonomously organize textbook content and to recognize the historical roots of contemporary conflicts and social problems. - Prerequisites
- No.
- Teaching methods
- Face to face lessons, seminars, dvd projections, tests.
- Other information
- There will be some conferences.
- Learning verification modality
- The exam is an oral exam at the end of the course.
- Extended program
- Lessons will focus on the analytical categories necessary to understand and to answer the fundamental questions posed by XIXth - XXth century political history, from an italian and european perspective.
The relevant introductory topics of XIXth century history are: the crisis of multinational empires and the birth of national States in Europe, the birth of major political ideologies, colonialism and imperialism, the evolution of european constitutional systems.
The XXth century is the true core of the course and major events will be treated extensively: the two World Wars, the russian revolution, the crisis of democracy and the birth of totalitarian systems, the cold war and its consequences in Europe and abroad, the process of European integration, foundation and evolution of the italian republican political system, the fall of the Berlin wall.
A specific study will concern the figure of Giuseppe Garibaldi.