CONTEMPORARY HISTORY - B
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Enrollment year
2015/2016
Academic year
2015/2016
Regulations
DM270
Academic discipline
M-STO/04 (CONTEMPORARY HISTORY)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES
Course
PHILOSOPHY
Curriculum
PERCORSO COMUNE
Year of study
Period
(21/09/2015 - 23/12/2015)
ECTS
6
Lesson hours
36 lesson hours
Language
ITALIAN
Activity type
ORAL TEST
Teacher
LOMBARDI PIETRO ANGELO (titolare) - 6 ECTS
Prerequisites
Students can apply this course after having attended section A
Learning outcomes
The course’s goal is to analyze specific phenomena and topics in contemporary history, focusing on the results of historiographical debate, past and going on, and leading students to a direct approach to sources and original documents.
Course contents
The “hurry” years. The Italian economic miracle (1956-1967).
The course deals with the “great transformation” which occurs in Italy in that period, in the context of the extraordinary economic and international growth subsequent to the Second World War, analyzing the drastic changes in the ways to produce, to consume, to live the present and to plan the future. In the tumultuous process which reshapes the manufacturing and social structures, while the old mentality persists and the signs appear of a new modernity as much aggressive as contradictory and feverish, the manufacturing assets change, with the end of the rural Italy and the development of a real industrial economy, as well as the lifestyles, the social layout and the political balance.
Problems related to historical methodology and critic analysis will be addressed, considering the fundamental scientific literature, as well as different sources (archives, press, narrative, cinema, music).
Teaching methods
Lectures, seminars
Reccomended or required readings
All students are required to study on the two books below 1, 2, 3 and 4:

1.Il miracolo economico italiano (1958-1963), a cura di ANTONIO CARDINI, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2006, pp.293.
2. CASTRONOVO VALERIO, Storia economica d'Italia. Dall'Ottocento ai nostri giorni, Torino, Einaudi 2013, cap.V "Una società industriale", pp.255-333.
3. PETRI ROLF, Storia economica d'Italia. Dalla grande guerra al miracolo economico (1918-1963), Bologna, Il Mulino 2002, capp.V e VIII, pp.180-217 e 327-354.
4. ZAMAGNI VERA, Dalla periferia al centro. La seconda rinascita economica dell'Italia (1861-1981), Bologna, Il Mulino 1990, capp.XI e XII, pp.404-445.

5. Furthermore they are required to read one more book chosen from the following list :

- CRAINZ GUIDO, Storia del miracolo economico. Culture, identità, trasformazioni tra gli anni cinquanta e sessanta, Donzelli, Roma 1996 (2° ed. 2005)

- GRAZIANI AUGUSTO, Lo sviluppo dell'economia italiana. Dalla ricostruzione alla moneta europea, Bollati Boringhieri, Torino 1998 (nuova ed. 2000), pp.9-110 e GUALTIERI ROBERTO, Introduzione alla storia contemporanea. L'Europa nel mondo del XX secolo, Carocci, Roma 2001, pp.115-75.

- GINSBORG PAUL, Storia d'Italia dal dopoguerra ad oggi. Società e politica 1943-1988, Einaudi, Torino 1989, pp.283-403.

- PICCONE STELLA SIMONETTA, La prima generazione. Ragazze e ragazzi nel miracolo economico italiano, Franco Angeli, Milano 1993.

- DE FELICE FRANCO, Nazione e sviluppo: un nodo non sciolto, in Storia dell'Italia repubblicana. 2. La trasformazione dell'Italia. Sviluppi e squilibri, Einaudi, Torino 1995, pp.783-882 e LANARO SILVIO, Storia dell'Italia repubblicana. Dalla fine della guerra agli anni Novanta, Marsilio, Venezia 1992, pp.223-303.

- AA.VV., Lezioni sull'Italia repubblicana, Donzelli, Roma 1994. Saggi di Bevilacqua, Carboni, Levi, Lupo, Mangiameli, Pavone, Tranfaglia, Trigilia

- DI LORETO PIETRO, La difficile transizione. Dalla fine del centrismo al centro-sinistra 1953-60, Il Mulino, Bologna 1993

- PETRILLO GIANFRANCO, La capitale del 'miracolo', Franco Angeli, Milano 1992

Those students who are not going to attend the class are supposed to study the books over indicated (1,2,3 and 4) and study two more books chosen from the list below 5.
Assessment methods
Oral examination
Further information
Oral examination
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