Learning outcomes
The course explores some of the key themes that characterize the modern age , with particular reference to the eighteenth century , periodized beyond traditional court partitions a quo and ad quem : the state building, social and economic dynamics , the relations between the different European countries, the international military relations and the formation of the european empires. The topic general history/local history is focused. The students begin to work with historical sources.
Course contents
Under the general themes listed above, the course will focus on the European case in the long eighteenth century between the end of the seventeenth century ( the "crisis of the European conscience " ) and the French Revolution.
A seminar (12 hours) concerning the issue, in relation of course topics, will be held by prof. Alessandra Ferraresi, which will analyze the Italian case and who will provide historical sources and bibliography.
Reccomended or required readings
Reading list
All the attending students (lessons and seminary) will have to study:
Adriano Prosperi e Paolo Viola, Storia moderna e contemporanea, Einaudi, Torino, 2000, vol. II, pp. 185-386 (i capitoli VII-XI)
Luciano Guerci, L'europa del Settecento. Permanenze e mutamenti, Torino, UTET, 1988, pp. 359-445, 449-499 e 527-571
Carlo Capra, Gli italiani prima dell’Italia. Un lungo Settecento, dalla fine della Controriforma a Napoleone, Roma, Carocci, 2014
(For the seminar of Prof. Ferraresi, pages will be indicated during the course)
For the not participants, it’s obligatory the lecture of one of this books:
Walter Panciera, La Repubblica di Venezia nel Settecento, Roma, 2014.
Roberto Bizzocchi, Cicisbei. Morale privata e identità nazionale in Italia, Roma – Bari, 2008.
Frqanco Venturi, Settecento riformatore, vol. I, Da Muratori a Beccaria (1730-1764), Torino, 1998.
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