2015/2016

2015/2016

DM270

M-STO/04 (CONTEMPORARY HISTORY)

DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES

MODERN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES

PERCORSO COMUNE

1°

1st semester (21/09/2015 - 23/12/2015)

6

36 lesson hours

ITALIAN

ORAL TEST

LOMBARDI PIETRO ANGELO (titolare) - 6 ECTS

All students can apply this course.

The course aims to enlighten and come through historical problems, and their interconnection, in contemporary world, with emphasis on the last decades of nineteenth and twentieth century. Lessons will offer a global, critical view on both socio-economical phenomena and political-cultural, with a comparative approach among different areas and states.
In this context specific attention will be given to the consideration of research methodologies, to analysis and selection of sources, to usage of conceptual categories and paradigms in order to stimulate a critical approach to the subject and its interpretive challenges.

The course will be run with the following schedule:
1) introduction to contemporary history: methodological problems and chronology, the idea of contemporary age , keywords, type of sources and archives, history, historiography and memory.
2) Instruments and methods of bibliographical research: traditional references (repertories, bibliographies) and on line resources.
3) topics and questions of contemporary history: domestic and international politics, political institutions and behaviours, outlines of social and economical development, changement and continuity in demography, culture, science, technology and production features.

Lectures

The students are required to study on the handbook below (compulsory) :
A. M. BANTI, L'età contemporanea. Dalla Grande Guerra a oggi, Laterza Bari, 2009.
Is warmly recommended to use complementary reference books such as historical atlas, of course up to date. Further more in order to solve any lack of basic historical knowledge is suggested to look up to historical dictionaries and high school manuals.
Those who are not going to attend the class are supposed to read and study one more book chosen from the list below:
M.BLOCH, Apologia della storia o mestiere dello storico, Einaudi, Torino 1969;
G. DE LUNA, La passione e la ragione. Fonti e metodi dello storico contemporaneo, Firenze, La Nuova Italia 2001;
C.PAVONE , Prima lezione di storia contemporanea, Roma , Laterza, 2007.
M. L.SALVADORI, Il Novecento. Un'introduzione, Bari Laterza, 2002.
La storia negata: il revisionismo e il suo uso politico, Vicenza, Neri Pozza, 2009.

Written test

Written test