Università Roma Tre

Syllabus:

Week1
Italy as a historiographical question; the roots of Italian nation’s myth
Week2
The Risorgimento’s national myth; the liberal nation; Italian politics between two centuries; teaching the nation: the liberal politics
Week3
Intellectual avant-gardes and modernist nationalism; Giolitti’s Italy
Week4
The Great War; the failure of the liberal State and the rise of fascism
Week5
Fascist Italy; the fascist myth of the nation
Week6
The second world war: death, revival and the fragmentation of the nation
Week7
The Constitution; De Gasperi’s politics
Week8
Economic miracle, center-left governments and the politics in the 60s
Week9
The Republican nation: political parties’ nation; from 1968 to the years of lead (first part)
Week10
From 1968 to the years of lead (second part); towards the end of century: a long crisis
Week11
The debate on the nation between two centuries


The course will take place with lectures and projections

Testi di riferimento

Testi per i frequentanti:
- Simona Colarizi, Storia del Novecento italiano, BUR Rizzoli, Milano, 2000
- Emilio Gentile, La Grande Italia. Ascesa e declino del mito della nazione nel ventesimo secolo, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2011

Testi per i non frequentanti:
- Fulvio Cammarano, Storia dell'Italia liberale, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2011
- Simona Colarizi, Storia del Novecento italiano, BUR Rizzoli, Milano, 2000
- Emilio Gentile, La Grande Italia. Ascesa e declino del mito della nazione nel ventesimo secolo, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2011