CdSINTERNATIONAL PROGRAMME IN HUMANITIES
CodiceMM568
CFU6
PeriodoSecondo semestre
LinguaItaliano
| Moduli | Settore/i | Tipo | Ore | Docente/i | |
| MODERN ITALIAN HISTORY | M-STO/04 | LEZIONI | 36 |
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The purpose of this course is to allow students to develop a basic knowledge of the Italian history during the 19th and 20th centuries, in particular Italy's political dynamics, keeping in mind the socio-economic and cultural changes that happened along two centuries.
Course topics include, among others, the Risorgimento, the creation of the Italian Kingdom, the Great War, Fascism, the Second World War, the birth of Italian Republics and its main events up to the 1990s.
Both in the mid-term written exam and the final written exam, students should demonstrate to have acquired knowledge of the most relevants events dealt with in class, to thoroughly deal with topics and to critically address the questions.
Classes are divided into two parts. In the first part, students will have to discuss the assigned reading (available on the Pisa university e-learning web-site); in the second part, the professor will present a specific topic through power point presentations.
The course will start on March 4 and ends on May 29.
The syllabus and all the assigned readings are available on this platform: https://elearning.humnet.unipi.it/course/view.php?id=2914
Class 1.
Introduction to the Course
Class 2.
From the French Revolution to Napoleon
Class 3.
From the age of Restoration to 1848
Class 4.
The Italian Risorgimento: Mazzini
Class 5.
The Italian Risorgimento: Cavour
Class 6.
The Italian Risorgimento: Garibaldi
Class 7.
Italy’s first decades: the political system (1861 – 1900)
Class 8.
Italy’s first decades: economy and society (1861 – 1900)
Class 9.
Mid-term exam
Class 10.
Italy: state and society at the beginning of the century (1900 – 1915)
Class 11.
The Great War
Class 12 - 13.
Fascism: ideology and foreign policy (1922 – 1943)
Class 14-15.
Fascism: a totalitarianism? (1922 – 1943)
Class 16-17.
The Second World War: the Italian Resistance and the Liberation (1943 – 1945)
Class 18.
The post-war settlement (1945-48)
Final written exam. Date to be determined
Chapters from the following books:
1) John Davis (Ed. by), Italy in the Nineteenth Century 1796-1900, Oxford University Press, 2000
2) Adrian Lyttelton (Ed. by), Liberal and Fascist Italy 1900-1945,Oxford University Press, 2002
3) Paul Ginsborg, A History of Contemporary Italy. Society and Politics 1943-1988, Penguin Books, 1990
Attendance is compulsary. Non-attending students are not allowed to take the exam.
The final mark will be based on:
1) Class attendance.Students have to attend at least 85% of classes. They are required to actively contribute to the discussion on the readings that are assigned and on the sources that might be presented in class. 30% of the final grade will be based on that.
2) A mid-term exam, based on the assigned readings and on what has been discussed in class during the first half of the course. The exam will represent 30% of the final grade.
4) A final written exam, based on the assigned readings and on what has been discussed in class during the course. The exam will represent 40% of the final grade.
Starting from March 11, the course will be taught via google meet.
Follow this link, click on "Modern Italian History", and then click on "google meet".
The Evaluation Committee is composed of the following members:
Chair: Arturo Marzano
Members: Michele Di Donato; Gianluca Fulvetti
Substitute chair: Michele Di Donato
Substitute members: Vinzia Fiorino; Gianluca Fruci
The course will start on March 4 and will finish on May 29.