Università Roma Tre

Learning outcomes:
This course introduces students to the analysis of XX century Italin history. A special attention will be paid to political-institutional systems and to a global approach in the study of history.

Course contents:
This course analyses modern Italy in order to understand its historical development and present condition. It does so by pursuing three main themes:

• The evolution of the nation-state in global and transnational perspective
• Fundamental discontinuities in social, political and everyday life
• The changing balance between Italy and the wider world

The course will be divided into 3 parts. The first part will focus on the political transformation in Italy during the early XX century until the First World War. The second part will analyse the interwar period and the Fascist political system during the Twenties and Thirties. The last part of the course will concentrate on the Second post-war period, with particular attention on the Cold War.

Skills outcomes:

Teaches Common Skills listed below:

- High-level skills in oral and written communication of complex ideas.
- Independence of mind and self-discipline and self-direction to work effectively under own initiative.
- Ability to locate, handle and synthesize large amounts of information.
- Empathy and active engagement with alternative cultural contexts.

Mandatory Textbook:

Jonathan Dunnage, Twentieth Century Italy. A Social History (London, 2002)

Students will have to choose one book among the followings and to discuss it at the oral examination (two books for non-attending students):

Philip Cooke, The legacy of the Italian resistance (New York 2011)
Christopher Duggan, Fascist voices. An Intimate History of Mussolini’s Italy (Oxford, 2013)
Michael Ebner, Ordinary Violence in Mussolini’s Italy (Cambridge, 2010)
John Foot, Italy’s Divided Memory (New York, 2009)
Emilio Gentile, The sacralization of politics in Fascist Italy (Cambridge, 1996)
Paul Ginsborg, A History of Contemporary Italy. Society and Politics, 1943 – 1980 (London 1990)
Salvatore Lupo, History of the Mafia (New York 2009)
Claudio Pavone, A Civil War: A History of the Italian Resistance (New York, 2014)
Roberta Pegher, Mussolini's Nation-Empire. Sovereignty and Settlement in Italy's Borderlands, 1922–1943 (Cambridge, 2017)