Università Roma Tre

The course aims to ensure the knowledge about the transformations of the economy , society and the institutions of the past two centuries . At the end of the course, students will be given the tools of critical knowledge and the interpretative keys about contemporary modernity, taking as its starting point the first industrial revolution and the transition from absolute State to the Liberal and constitutional State until globalization and the end of the East - West bipolarism considered as the point of arrival. During the introductory lessons we will propose some methodological issues concerning an interdisciplinary approach for the historical research and for the periodization of the socio-economic and political- institutional history.

Topics covered in the course:
• Contemporary history: ab quo and ad quem term • Contemporary history: sources; methods; historiographical schools • The industrial revolution: its development and its consequences • Demographic change, urbanization and migration • The Restoration: subjects and ideologies • National States • The socialist and social-Christian movements • Colonialism • Apogee and Crisis of the progress idea • The Great War • Socialism becoming State • The crisis between the two world wars • The authoritarian and totalitarian regimes • The Second World War and the Cold War and bipolarity • The decolonization and the Non-Aligned Movement • The Golden Age • Republican Italy • world Economics • global village and international organizations.

1. Un buon manuale per le scuole superiori di Storia contemporanea di recente pubblicazione.
2. C. F. Casula, Insegnare il Novecento, Anicia 2014
3. C. F. Casula, L’isola bella e infelice. Il libro Profili e paesaggi della Sardegna e il diario inedito di paolo Mantegazza. Echi e polemiche nello Stivale e nel Sandalo sulla Commissione parlamentare d’inchiesta del 1869, Carlo Delfino 2016.

The lessons will focus on two specific areas of the history of international relations:

1. The phases of the Cold War: US - USSR confrontation; competitive coexistence; Détente.

2. The key moments of the European Union founding process: the transatlantic relations versus the formation of the Franco-German axis; the European Coal and Steel Community and the proposed European Defense Community; the establishment of new supranational institutions.

The European Community's path will be examined from the point of view of political history (especially with regard to the transnational cooperation between political parties and trade unions) and in terms of the history of ideas, that is the analysis of the federalist thought within the twentieth century political cultures and about the importance of the religious factor on the dynamics of redefining the rules and institutions of European governance.

The course is so tailored in view of an educational goal, namely offering to students a framework for an independent and critical interpretation of the political, socio-economic and cultural patterns that have led to the determination of the foreign policy guidelines during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Un buon manuale di Storia contemporanea delle classi superiori a scelta dello studente

Carlo Felice Casula, Insegnare il Novecento. Chiavi di lettura e casi studio con percorsi di storia e cinema, Editoriale Anicia, 2014

Carlo Felice Casula, Educare alla pace e alla diversità culturale per fondare una nuova cittadinanza consapevole e solidale, in Qtimes webmagazine11, 30 Gennaio 2016, online:

http://www.qtimes.it/flv/q-times_gennaio2016_casula.pdf