MODERN HISTORY
Theres an oral exam and the student will have to answer some questions about the content of the textbook and the monograph.
The textbook is divided into two sections: the student will have to choose three chapters from the first section (chapters 1-16) and every chapters from the second one (chapters 17-38).
The purpose of the institutional course is to provide general knowledge of the universal modern history (late fifteenth-early nineteenth century).
Rather, in the monographic course, will be deepened a specific topic, the birth and development of the Atlantic world in the XV-XIX.
Institutional part.
Section I: the idea of modern; to measure time; Ecologic revolutions; to map the space; Global net and goods; Work, slavery, migration; Wide inequalities, capitalism and industrialization; Countries, empires and colonies; Cities; Violence and war; Social stratification; Marriage, family and sexuality; Cults and religion; Personal and collective emotions; Scientific knowledge; Communication: printing, writing, orality, images and sounds.
Section II: Ming dinasty and Tamerlanos Asia; The Estado da India and the beginning of colonization; The islamic empires; The international rise of Spain; The break of religious unity in Europe; Carlo V dAsburgos empire; Ottoman expansionism; The conquest of Inca and Atzec empires; The second phase of Italian wars: from the plunder of Rome to Cateau-Cambrésis; Ivan the Terribles Russia; Religion wars; Netherlands during 17th century; China and Japan during 17th century; The moriscos and the continuation of religious unity in Spain; The rise of England during 17th century; The absolutism and Luigi 14th of France; Romanovs Russia during 17th century; A new balance in Europe: 1700-1738; European wars and global wars: 1740-1763; The Atlantic revolutions: 1776-1833; French revolution; Napoleonic era.
Monographic part: european, African and Native Americans in the Atlantic world: politics, economy, society and religion between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Institutional part: Introduzione alla storia moderna, a cura di M. Bellabarba e V. Lavenia, il Mulino, Bologna 2018.
Monographic part: F. Morelli, Il mondo atlantico. Una storia senza confini (sec. XV-XIX), Carocci, Roma 2013.
Lectures with audio-visual supports.
The lectures from the institutional section will start in October and they will end during the second week of November; then the lectures from the monograph part will follow until mid December.