Catania: First Modern History of RI program Contemporary History
Degree in International Relations
Academic Year 2010-2011 (Prof. G. Poidomani)
Program
States and Nations in the contemporary age: the American Revolution to Globalization
The course of contemporary history is intended to retrace the most important of the international history of nineteenth and twentieth centuries, investigating the issues of deeper and more interest in historiography, with particular reference to international politics, the major economic and financial processes and transformations of contemporary societies. The most important steps the program of Contemporary History will be the big political and industrial revolutions, the construction of nation-states of the nineteenth century, imperialism and colonialism, world wars, decolonization and the Cold War, the events of the last two decades crucial post-Cold War .
Form I
1. The birth of the United States of America
2. The French Revolution
3. The first industrial revolution
Module II
1. Europe in the first half of the nineteenth century
2. The processes of nationalization
3. The second industrial revolution
Module III
1. Imperialism and colonialism
2. Company and consumption
3. Treaties and alliances in the Europe of the late nineteenth century
Module IV
1. The First World War
2. The treaties of Versailles and the aftermath
3. The Russian Revolution
Module V
1. The Weimar Republic
2. The crisis between the wars
3. The collapse of Wall Street and the New Deal
Form VI
1. The totalitarian
2. The Second World War
3. The Resistance to Fascism
Form VII
1. Italy Republican
2. The Cold War
3. Decolonization
Module VIII
1. The relaxation
2. The question of the Middle East
3. The end of the USSR
Module IX
1. The Gulf Wars
2. Globalization
3. The open questions of contemporary
Books:
1) Alberto Mario Banti, the modern age. From eighteenth-century revolutions to imperialism, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2010, pp. 610, € 25
2) Alberto Mario Banti, the modern age. From the Great War to the present, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2010, pp. 490, € 24
During the course will be recommended reading other books for further study of the topics covered.
Students who attend at least 50 percent of the lectures will hold a written examination during the course of 5 of the 9 modules of the course.
the day of receipt is set for Friday from 10 am to 12 pm at my office at the palace Dusmet). It is advisable to make an appointment via e-mail: @ gmail.com giancarlo.poidomani
My site is www.profpoidomani.blogspot.com.
