2018/2019

2020/2021

DM270

SECS-P/12 (ECONOMIC HISTORY)

DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES

HUMANITIES

Lettere moderne

3°

1st semester (28/09/2020 - 23/12/2020)

6

36 lesson hours

Italian

ORAL TEST

RIZZO MARIO VALENTINO (titolare) - 6 ECTS

None in particular but a reasonable basic knowledge of key economic and historical concepts. Anyway, if needs be, additional personal guidance will be provided over rudiments of history and basic economic notions.

The general purpose of the course is to empower students to develop a critical approach to key issues in economic history over the last three centuries.
The course aims at emphasising the fundamental changes brought about by the Industrial revolution, discussing some of the main features and trends of the world economy in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries.

After a brief introduction looking at the distinctive characteristics of the pre-industrial economy, the course moves on to examine the Industrial revolution in Britain and then discusses the industrialisation of other European and non-European countries, focusing on the major changes which occurred in the world economy in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries.

A short summary of the main topics to be covered in the course includes:

The pre-industrial economy: some distinctive characteristics
Britain, the first industrial nation, 1720-1870
The industrialisation of Europe, 1815-1914
The industrialisation of non-European countries: Japan and the United States
An early globalisation, 1880-1914
The world economy between the two World Wars, 1914-1945
The world economy after the Second World War, 1945-2015
Decolonisation, the Third World, globalisation: an outline

Lectures, during which students' active and critical participation will be greatly appreciated and encouraged.

Marco CATTINI, L’Europa verso il mercato globale. Dal XV secolo alla crisi di inizio XXI, Milano, Egea, 2015, seconda edizione, pp. 1-17, 22-29, 45-54, 63-291.
Stefano BATTILOSSI, Le rivoluzioni industriali, Roma, Carocci, 2002.

Oral exam, designed to provide students with the opportunity to demonstrate achievement of the course learning outcomes. The assessment strategy aims at verifying the students' knowledge of the topics of the programme and their critical ability to connect historical events and put them in historical context and perspective.

Oral exam, designed to provide students with the opportunity to demonstrate achievement of the course learning outcomes. The assessment strategy aims at verifying the students' knowledge of the topics of the programme and their critical ability to connect historical events and put them in historical context and perspective.