Unit ECONOMIC HISTORY
- Course
- Political sciences and international relations
- Study-unit Code
- GP005263
- Curriculum
- Scienze politiche
- Teacher
- Manuel Vaquero Pineiro
- Teachers
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- Manuel Vaquero Pineiro
- Hours
- 63 ore - Manuel Vaquero Pineiro
- CFU
- 9
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2022
- Offered
- 2024/25
- Learning activities
- Affine/integrativa
- Area
- Attività formative affini o integrative
- Academic discipline
- SECS-P/12
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- Knowing factors and dynamics of European and world economic history, since the rise of modern industrialization; update the interpretative framework from a perspective of "global history"; acquire the conceptual tools to approach the problems of economic development and social contemporary world.
- Reference texts
- Attending students: the reference texts are provided by the teacher in the course of the lectures and are available on the Unistudium page dedicated to this course.
Students who have not attended the lectures should prepare themselves by studying the following texts:
1) Matteo Di Tullio, Martino Lorenzo Fagnani, Una storia ambientale dell’età moderna. Società, saperi, economie, Roma, Carocci, 2024;
2) Nathan Rosenberg, Luther E. Birdzell, Come l’Occidente è diventato ricco. Le trasformazioni economiche del mondo industriale, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1988;
3) a chapter of your choice from the following volume: Astrid Kander Paolo Malanima Paul Warde (edited by), Power to the People. Energy in Europe over the Last Five Centuries, Princeton and Oxford, Princeton University Press, 2013.
The texts indicated as number 2 and 3 are available on Unistudium's teaching page.
For international and Erasmus students: the lecturer can also provide texts in
English, French and Spanish. - Educational objectives
- Learn about factors and dynamics of the European and world economic history, since the advent of modern industrialization; update the interpretive framework in a perspective of "global history"; acquire conceptual tools for the approach to the problems of economic and social development in the contemporary world.
- Prerequisites
- Teaching methods
- Frontal lessons
- Other information
- Learning verification modality
- For attending students: written papers during the course, with final discussion of the papers in oral form at one of the official teaching exams.
Non-attending students: oral examination lasting approximately twenty minutes.
For international and Erasmus students: oral exams may be taken also in English, Spanish and French. - Extended program
- The First Industrial revolution: England in the 18th and 19th Century
The Second Industrial devolution: Germany, United States, Japan
The Firs Globalization (1850-1920)
The First World War and its consequences (the Great Depression, the Second World War)
The World Economic after the Second World War (new order in wolrd economy, rebuilding Europe)
State socialism in the USSR and Eastern Europe
The Welfare-state
Economic integration in Western Europe
The end of colonialism
The Financial Capitalism in the Last Thirty Years
Theindustrialization of the world
The Globalization after Second World War
The emerging market economies. - Obiettivi Agenda 2030 per lo sviluppo sostenibile