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). 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.

6 CFU Program:
Gian Enrico Rusconi, Cavour e Bismarck. Due leader fra liberalismo e cesarismo, Bologna, il Mulino, 2011
Francesco Guida, La Russia e l'Europa centro-orientale 1815-1914, Roma, Carocci, 2014

Students enrolled in the previous system (8 CFU exam) are invited to contact the professor to arrange supplementary readings.

A general knowledge of European history between the late 18th and early 20th centuries is required. It is recommended the use of a Contemporary history handbook.