Unit ECONOMIC HISTORY

Course
Political sciences and international relations
Study-unit Code
GP005263
Curriculum
Scienze politiche
Teacher
Manuel Vaquero Pineiro
Teachers
  • 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

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