Università Roma Tre

The course is divided in two parts.
In the first one, the teacher will outline the main methodological issues and historical events related to the idea of the emergence, in the early modern period, of the first forms of globalization.
The second part will be dedicated to the reading and discussion of selected sources and historiographical texts. Students will be given the opportunity to make individual or group presentations on a specific topic (or book) agreed upon in advance with the teacher.
The course by no means attempts to cover all the aspects of globalization’s history and interpretations. It would rather focus on the “global history” approaches, that look beyond the Eurocentric and Nation-State theoretical framework and, instead of political-institutional or economic-based explanations, privilege topics such as the history of anthropological and cultural exchanges, the history of migrations and religious diasporas, the “connected” and micro-histories of economic, cultural, political and religious brokers (ambassadors, merchants, missionaries, soldiers, travellers), whose agency greatly contributed to the construction of a global world.

For the general part of the course:
- J. Osterhammel – N.P. Petersson, Storia della globalizzazione, Bologna 2005.
- C. H. Parker, Relazioni globali nell’età moderna 1400-1800, Bologna 2012.

For the monographic part, please choose one among these books:
- F. Braudel, La dinamica del capitalismo, Bologna 2021.
- S. Conrad, Verso il mondo moderno. Una storia culturale, Torino 2022.
- M. Fusaro, Reti commerciali e traffici globali in età moderna, Roma-Bari 2008.
- J. Goldstone, Perché l'Europa? L'ascesa dell'Occidente nella storia mondiale 1500-1850, Bologna 2010.
- S. Gruzinski, La macchina del tempo. Quando l’Europa ha iniziato a scrivere la storia del mondo, Milano 2018.
- S. Subrahmanyam, Mondi connessi. La storia oltre l’eurocentrismo (secoli XVI-XVIII), Roma 2014.
- T. Todorov, La conquista dell’America. Il problema dell’«altro», Torino 2014 (o edizioni precedenti).
- F. Trivellato, Microstoria e storia globale, Roma 2023.

Attending students will prepare the final exam on the basis of the readings included in a Syllabus that will be circulated during the course.
Non attending students are invited to contact the teacher in due advance so as to define a specific programme.