CONTEMPORARY HISTORY

A) Knowledge and understanding: demonstrate knowledge and understanding in a post-secondary level field of study, including some cutting-edge topics in their field of study, with the support of advanced textbooks;

B) Ability to apply knowledge and understanding: being able to apply their knowledge and understanding skills in a manner demonstrate a professional approach to their work, and possess adequate skills both to devise and argue arguments and to solve problems in their field of study;

C) Making judgments: collecting and interpreting data useful for making independent judgments, including reflection on related social, scientific or ethical issues;

D) Communication skills: communicating information, ideas, problems and solutions to specialist and non-specialist interlocutors

specialists;

E) Learning skills: develop the skills necessary to undertake further studies with a high degree of autonomy.

Lectures

World War I; Russian Revolution; Europe between democracy and authoritarianisms; Soviet Communism; Fascism and Nazism; United States and the New Deal; Economy and Society during interwar period; the decline of Colonialism; World War II; Cold War; Decolonization; the Middle East; the Western world; the Communist world; crisis and recovery of the Western world; the fall of the Communist world; the Global era.

A The twentieth century: history and interpretations (5 ECTS)

Books:

- A.M.  Banti, L’Età contemporanea: dalla Grande guerra ad oggi. Roma - Bari, Laterza, 2009, pp. 1-364

- A. M. Banti, Le questioni dell’età contemporanea, Roma-Bari Laterza, 2010 pp. 78 -299

B Widening (1 ECTS)

Critical reading of one of the following books is required:

- M. Del Pero, La Guerra Fredda, Roma, Carocci, 2001, pp.128

- L. Rapone, Storia dell'integrazione europea, Roma, Carocci, 2015, 200 p. (except for chapts. 6 and 7)

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