Università Roma Tre

The course includes a manual part, 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 contemporaneity in the 19th century and to the challenges of the 21st century. It moves from Italy with a transnational history approach, in the European and Mediterranean, Atlantic and intercontinental areas, enhancing global interactions and interdependencies; first of all through attention to the phenomena of the secular emigration of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and the recent immigration to Italy and Europe.
The course also develops thematic courses that allow to enhance the role of sources (archival, written, oral, audio-visual, online) in "making history". The in-depth monographic path concerns the theories and practices of "active citizenship", through a reflection on the role of the Republican Constitution and its influence in the life of Italians. We also examine some of the "good practices" of "active citizenship" in social and cultural action (adult formation and education, volunteering, the protection of public goods).

The course focuses on the book volume of Maurizio Ridolfi, Storia della politica. Italia e Italiani in prospettiva transnazionale nei secoli XIX-XXI, Milano, Pearson, 2020 [ISBN: 9788891913654]. Storia della politica - Digital Edition [ISBN: 9788891913661], MyLab - student access.

The thematic in-depth text is as follows: Giuseppe Cotturri, Romanzo popolare. Costituzione e cittadini nell’Italia repubblicana, Roma, Castelvecchi, 2019, pp. 266 [ISBN: 978-88-3282-613-5];