Università Roma Tre

The course provides the critical notions and tools for the study of the political history of the so-called "century of nationalities", indispensable for the understanding of contemporary Europe. It illustrates the establishment or reconstitution of the nation states in Central and Eastern Europe and the unification process of Germany and Italy. The analysis will embrace the whole "long nineteenth century" (from the French Revolution to the outbreak of the First World War).
Particular attention will be paid to the analysis of the revolutions of 1848, as well as to their premises and consequences. Necessary introduction to this analysis will be the discussion of the movements of "national rebirth" of a good part of the European peoples. Finally, the unification of Germany and Italy and the establishment of national states in Central and Eastern Europe will be addressed following the progressive crisis and then the collapse of the system of the great multiethnic empires (Austrian, Russian and Ottoman). The use of a comparative method will be continuous in order to find out common features of several national histories but also the peculiarities that differentiate them.

Students attending classes:
- Derek Beales – Eugenio Biagini, Il Risorgimento e l’unificazione dell’Italia, Bologna, il Mulino, 2005
- John Breuilly, La formazione dello Stato nazionale tedesco, Bologna, il Mulino, 2004
- Readings provided by the teacher in class

Students not attending classes:
- Roger Price, Le rivoluzioni del 1848, Bologna, il Mulino
- Antonio D’Alessandri, Sulle vie dell’esilio. I rivoluzionari romeni dopo il 1848, Lecce, Argo
- Derek Beales – Eugenio Biagini, Il Risorgimento e l’unificazione dell’Italia, Bologna, il Mulino, 2005
- Francesco Guida (a cura di), Dalla Giovine Europa alla Grande Europa, Roma, Carocci, 2007 (free file pdf available on publishing house's website www.carocci.it)
- John Breuilly, La formazione dello Stato nazionale tedesco, Bologna, il Mulino, 2004