CONTEMPORARY HISTORY

Academic Year 2018/2019 - 1° Year
Teaching Staff: Giancarlo Poidomani
Credit Value: 9
Scientific field: M-STO/04 - Contemporary history
Taught classes: 63 hours
Term / Semester:

Course Structure

Days of lectures: Monday- Tuesday - Wednesday. h. 12-14 (October-December 2018)


Detailed Course Content

Politc Revolutions - Nations e Nationalism - The Italian "Risorgimento" - Imperialism and Colonialism - Italy from Crispi to Giolitti - The Great War - The First After War - Totalitarianism: communism, fascism, nazism - Democracies - The Spanish Civil War - World War II - The Cold War - The Italian Republic - The end of the URSS - Globalization - Islamic terrorism - Migrations


Textbook Information

Program for non-attending students: 1 G. Sabbatucci-V. Vidotto, L'Ottocento, Laterza; 2 G. Sabbatucci-V. Vidotto, Il Novecento, Laterza. Program for attending students: 1 G. Poidomani, Lezioni di Storia contemporanea, Novalogos; 2 M. Bonomo-G. Poidomani, "L'Italia chiamò". La Sicilia e la Grande guerra, Carocci.