Università Roma Tre

The course examines the fundamental moments and aspects in contemporary 19th and 20th century history, starting with the revolutionary risings of 1948 and the formation of the European nation states, up to recent events. Special attention will be given to World History and to framing events in a global perspective. The topics of minorities and international migrations in our age, particularly to and from Italy, will be the focus of specific in-depth analysis.

Attending students
- Lucio Caracciolo, Adriano Roccucci, Storia contemporanea, Le Monnier-Mondadori, 2017
e uno a scelta fra:
- Mario Giro, Global Africa, Guerini associati 2019
- Valerio De Cesaris, Il grande sbarco, Guerini associati 2018

Non-attending students

- Lucio Caracciolo, Adriano Roccucci, Storia contemporanea, Le Monnier-Mondadori, Firenze-Milano
- Corrado Bonifazi, L' immigrazione straniera in Italia, Il Mulino 2007
e uno a scelta fra:
- Mario Giro, Global Africa, Guerini associati 2019
- Valerio De Cesaris, Il grande sbarco, Guerini associati 2018

The course includes a manual section, which aims to offer an exhaustive picture of the political-institutional, socio-economic and communicative-media transformations in the historical processes that have marked the last two centuries, between 1848 and the present time, with attention to the roots of modernity in the nineteenth century and to the challenges of the twenty-first century. Priority is given to the processes of global interaction and interdependence, placing European history in a global geo-political context and Italian history itself in a transnational perspective.
The course also develops thematic paths that allow to enhance the role of the sources (archival, written, oral, audio-visual, online) in "making history".
A first path concerns the history of childhood through the conflicts of the twentieth century, up to the wars of our time, the "child soldiers" and migrant children.
A second thematic path concerns the transformations of information and communication (between telegraph and press, cinema and radio, television and social networks), with the advent of mass society and the influence of populisms in public life.

The course focuses on the manual volume of Lucio Caracciolo and Adriano Roccucci, Storia contemporanea. Dal mondo europeo al mondo senza centro, Milan, Mondadori Education, 2017 [Isbn: 978-88-00-74473-7].
The thematic in-depth text is the following: Bruno Maida, L’infanzia nelle guerre del Novecento, Turin, Einaudi, 2017.