Contemporary History
Sciences Administration (Curriculum PS)
Academic Year 2009-2010 (Prof. G. Poidomani - Prof. M. Bonomo)
Program
States and Nations in the contemporary age
The course of contemporary history at this year aims to retrace the most important in the history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, investigating stories, characters and themes of greater thickness and historiographical interest. The key features of contemporary history will be studied with reference to two particular wires: the building process of states and nations and, in particular, what led to the birth of the Italian state in 1861.
Part of the course will explore the history of Sicily in the first fifteen years post-unification, the landing of a Thousand construction of facilities and infrastructure by the new Italian state.
Form I
1848: the revolution
European nation states: Italy and Germany
The second industrial revolution, imperialism and colonialism
The 1860 Form II in Sicily and southern Italy
justice and public order in Sicily from 1861 to 1876
State and Church: the subversion of ecclesiastical axis
Module III
The historical Right and infrastructure assistance in Sicily
Education and unification
Module IV
La Belle Epoque
World War I The Russian Revolution
The Weimar Republic
The crisis of 1929 and the New Deal
Module V
Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany
The English Civil War World War II
Form VI
The Cold War Decolonization
distension
Books:
1) G. Sabatucci and V. Vidotto, The Nineteenth Century, Laterza, Bari-Roma, 2002, chapters ranging from 1848 to World War
2) G. Sabatucci and V. Vidotto, Il Novecento, Laterza, Bari-Roma, 2002, chapters 1-7, 8 (only sections 8.1 and 8.2), 9, 10, 11, 14, 15
3) G. Poidomani, Without Sicily, Italy is not the nation. The Right historic and state-building (1861-1876), Bonanno Editore, Acireale-Roma, 2009, second edition, Chapters 1 and 3
Recommended books for further study (not required):
L. Villari, Bella and lost. Italy's Risorgimento, Roma-Bari, 2009 E.
Gellner, Nations and Nationalism, Editori Riuniti, Rome, 1997 E.
Hobsbawm, Nations and Nationalism since 1870. Programs, myth, reality, Einaudi, Torino, 1991
G. Mosse, The Nationalization of the masses. Political symbolism and mass movements in Germany (1813-1933), Il Mulino, Bologna, 1975
R. Romanelli, liberal Italy (1861-1900), Il Mulino, Bologna, 1990 E.
Weber, By French farmers. The modernization of rural France (1870-1914), Il Mulino, Bologna, 1989
Students who attend at least 50 percent of the lectures may sit a written examination in progress on 3 of the 6 modules of the course.
the day of receipt is set for Friday from 10 am to 12 pm at my office at Dappsi (Reburdone II building plan, Via Vittorio Emanuele, 8). It is advisable to make an appointment via e-mail: @ gmail.com giancarlo.poidomani
My site is www.profpoidomani.blogspot.com.
