C.I. STORIA DELL'ETA' MODERNA E CONTEMPORANEAModule STORIA CONTEMPORANEA
Academic Year 2024/2025 - Teacher: ERMANNO TAVIANIExpected Learning Outcomes
The course aims to understand the historical roots of the most significant cultural, political and social processes of today's world, as part of a global history. Furthermore, it aims to address the history of tourism. The aim is also to provide an overview of the foundations of the historical method.
Course Structure
Lectures with projection of audiovisual documents. The students will carry out an ongoing test.
Required Prerequisites
No prerequisites are required.
Attendance of Lessons
Attendance of the lessons is strongly recommended for all students.
Detailed Course Content
Italian, European and World History from 1900 to the present. The great issues of contemporary history from the “Age of Revolutions” to the globalization age. The Nation-State: Germany and Italy. Nationalism and Imperialism. Industrialisation and political change 1870-1914. The World War I. Postwar and revolution. Fascism and communism. The 1929 crisis and his consequences. The Thirties. The World War Two. The Cold War. The “Golden Age”. The Cultural and Social Revolution. Welfare State and citizenship. The European integration. The Italian Republic. From the Oil Crisis to 1989. The fall of the Berlin wall and it’s consequences. Changes and conflicts in a global world. Historical research methods.
The History of tourism. Tourism in the modern age. Mass tourism. Post-modern tourism. The organization of tourism. History of tourism in Italy.
Textbook Information
1) Monina, Motta, Pavone, Taviani, Processo storico, vol. 3, Dal Novecento a oggi, Loescher, Torino 2017. In this textbook the texts of the chapters, boxes and the insights included in the pages of each chapter are to be studied (Interpretare le fonti, Storia della cultura, Storia della società, Ingrandimenti, ecc.) and the insights on the films (Dalla storia alle storie). On the other hand, it is not necessary to study all the texts between chapter and chapter or at the end of the Unità (Organizzare le informazioni, Visualizzare le informazioni, Confrontare le interpretazioni, Verificare le conoscenze, Laboratorio delle competenze, Simulazione dell'esame di Stato, Essere Cittadini, ecc.).
2) P. Battilani, Vacanze di pochi, vacanze di tutti. L'evoluzione del turismo europeo, Il Mulino, Bologna 2009.
Course Planning
Subjects | Text References | |
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1 | The '900 overview. The years 1900-1914. | AA.VV., Processo storico, chapter 1 |
2 | World War I and the Russian Revolution. | AA.VV., Processo storico, chapters. 2-3. |
3 | The Postwar period. Fascism in Italy. | AA.VV., Processo storico, chapters. 4-6 |
4 | The 1929 crisis, the New Deal. Continents on the march. | AA.VV., Processo storico, chapters 5, 8. |
5 | The Totalitarian regimes. | AA.VV., Processo storico, chapter 7. |
6 | The Thirties and the Second World War. | AA.VV., Processo storico, chapters. 9 -10. |
7 | Shoah. | AA.VV., Processo storico, chapter 11. |
8 | The Postwar period and the Cold War. | AA.VV., Processo storico, chapters 14-15. |
9 | The Golden Age; Decolonization. | AA.VV., Processo storico, chapters 14-15. |
10 | Italy from the Economic Miracle to the Eighties. | AA.VV., Processo storico, chapters 16-18. |
11 | From the Sixties to the end of the Cold War. | AA.VV., Processo storico, chapters. 17-19. |
12 | Globalization's scenarios. | AA.VV., Processo storico, chapters 20-21 |
13 | Europe and the challenges of the global era. | AA.VV., Processo storico, chapters 22-23. |
14 | The world today. Verification of the path taken. | |
15 | The history of Tourism. The beginnings of Tourism. | Battilani, Vacanze di pochi, vacanze di tutti, chapters I-II. |
16 | From Modern Tourism to Mass Tourism. | Battilani, Vacanze di pochi, vacanze di tutti, chapters III-IV . |
17 | World and Italian Tourism. | Battilani, Vacanze di pochi, vacanze di tutti, chapters V- VI. |
18 | The organization of Contemporary Tourism. | Battilani, Vacanze di pochi, vacanze di tutti, chapters VII-VIII. |