MODERN HISTORY II
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- Versione italiana
- Academic year
- 2018/2019
- Teacher
- MATTEO PROVASI
- Credits
- 6
- Didactic period
- Primo Semestre
- SSD
- M-STO/02
Training objectives
- Knowledge. The course will provide detailed knowledge on the following subjects:
- the main reasons of Europe's historical evolution in the modern age.
- the main characteristics of european colonialism and the most relevant historical studies on it; analyzed through geographical, economical, political, religious and cultural concepts.
Skills. Be able to:
- Identify and interpret the Renaissance values on which the european civilization is based.
- In a diachronic perspective, analyze the dynamic and mutual interaction with other civilizations, especially the ancient islamic world and the new american world. Prerequisites
- None
Course programme
- - Methodological themes: an overview on historiography and the developement of the idea of europe.
- Europe in the Renaissance: the political context, First and Second Italian Wars, the clashes against the turks, religious wars.
- Discovering new worlds: geographical discoveries, colonialism models, acculturation and the imposition of a religious view,.
- Text analysis. Didactic methods
- Lectures; reading laboratories of travel reports; watching history movies (comments with active partecipation of students).
Learning assessment procedures
- Oral test: Check of aware of the content of the books in bibliography and of skill to analyze documents examined during the lectures.
Written test (only for attending students, the first exam session): Check of aware of the content of the books in bibliography and of skill to analyze documents examined during the lectures. Reference texts
- The exam has to be prepared on the following books.
- D. Abulafia, La scoperta dell’umanità. Incontri atlantici nell’età di Colombo, il Mulino, Bologna 2010
Choose among:
- M. Donattini, Dal Nuovo Mondo all’America. Scoperte geografiche e colonialismo (secoli XV-XVI), Carocci, Roma 2004
- G. Ricci, Appello al turco. I confini infranti del Rinascimento, Viella, Roma 2011
Additional bibliographic referencies will be provided during class.
In addiction for L15 students:
- L.A. Lindsay, Il commercio degli schiavi, il Mulino, Bologna 2011
