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.