MODERN HISTORY A - L

Academic Year 2018/2019 - 1° Year
Teaching Staff: Maria Concetta Calabrese
Credit Value: 6
Scientific field: M-STO/02 - Modern history
Taught classes: 42 hours
Term / Semester:

Learning Objectives

The course aims to contextualise the nodes and the crucial themes of modern history highlighting breakages and continuity, processes and developments to make students acquire awareness and critical skills.


Course Structure

Frontal classes


Detailed Course Content

The conquest of the New World in the 16 century, The Reformation, Religious wars in France, The building of Modern State,The crisis of 17 century in Europe.

The age of reforms in the 17 century, The American Revolution, The French Revolution, Napoleone Bonaparte, The Congress of Vienna.


Textbook Information

1) D. Ligresti, Storia moderna (secoli XVI-XVIII), Maimone, Catania 2014.
2) F. Benigno, L’età moderna dalla scoperta dell’America alla Restaurazione, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2005.
3) Storia moderna, Manuali Donzelli, Roma 1998

 


4) A. De Francesco, L’Italia di Bonaparte. Politica,statualità e nazione nella penisola tra due rivoluzioni (1796-1812), Utet, Torino,2011.