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STORIA MODERNA
Dati Generali
Periodo di attività
Syllabus
Obiettivi Formativi
The aim of the course is to help students to approach the Mediterranean as a space characterised by exchanges, clashes and hybridisations, by mechanisms of intense circulation of people, goods, vessels, but even by cultural, social and institutional alterity. At the end of the course, students will have to demonstrate an adequate knowledge of the History of the Mediterranean such as to enable them to frame the major institutional, economic and socio-cultural issues that have affected this space from the disintegration of classical unity, with the advent of the barbarian invasions and the expansion of Islam, to the affirmation of the new geopolitical frameworks produced in this area at the beginning of the so-called "age of colonialism," passing through the transformations generated by the establishment of the modern states and nations.
Prerequisiti
Knowledge of the basic events of European general and institutional History.
Metodi didattici
Frontal lessons (highly interactive lecture-style presentation).
Verifica Apprendimento
Oral examination. Only for attending students: possibility to discuss brief thesis on specific themes during the last month of the course
Testi
Mediterranean History Handbook, edited by A. D'Onofrio, F. Canale Cama, R. Delli Quadri, L. Mascilli Migliorini, Naples, Guida, 128 pp., in course of publication, plus a text chosen by the student between 1)F. Braudel, The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II, volume II, New York, Harper & Row, 1972(students can choose to study part II or part. three), and 2) T. G. Fraser, The Arab Israeli conflict, New York, Palgrave MacMillan, 2004 (second edition).
For attending students
Mediterranean History Handbook, edited by A. D'Onofrio, F. Canale Cama, R. Delli Quadri, L. Mascilli Migliorini, Naples, Guida, 128 pp.
Contenuti
1. Mediterranean times: chronologies of short, medium and long duration
2. The Christian-Byzantine Mediterranean
3. The Latin Mediterranean
4. The Islamic Mediterranean
5. Political upheavals in the Islamic world: the Mongol and Mamluk expansion
6. Europe and Islam: Arab culture in the Mediterranean
7. Venice and Genoa: the empires of the Mediterranean sea
8. The European Mediterranean: plague, crisis and famine; European recovery; Europe of cities
9. The origins of modernity 1: new realities in the West; Portuguese and Castilian aspirations
10. The origins of modernity 2: Turkish advance, the fall of Constantinople and its consequences
11. Europe between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean: dynastic changes; Spain and France in the Mediterranean; Venice and its crisis
12. Europe and the Mediterranean: Charles of Habsburg; the Barbary Regencies and the human "commodity"
13. The Sublime Porte in the 1500s: new conquests, government of the Empire, urban centers and the capital
14. The Mediterranean in the age of Philip II: the Spanish "imperial system," warfare in the Mediterranean
15. The loss of centrality: the crisis of the Mediterranean empires and the new protagonists
15. The loss of centrality: the crisis of the Mediterranean empires and the new protagonists
16. Europe and the Mediterranean between balances and hegemonies: France and Mediterranean politics, the British in the Mediterranean
17. Rise and fall: the Ottoman crisis, the rise of Russia, Austria the antemural of Christendom
18. Politics and strategies: Spain and the new balances; the multiple Italies
19. Reforms and Revolutions:The Balkans and the Mediterranean; Russia and the Mediterranean dream; the Ottoman Empire in transition
20.European and Mediterranean Enlightenment
21.The Mediterranean between France and England: the Revolution, Napoleon, the British and Foreign Policy in the Napoleonic Age
22.Romantic Nations: Restoration and Revolution; the Ottoman Empire and the origins of the "Question of the East"
23.Mediterranean ferments in the 19th century: the French conquest of Algeria; the Sublime Porte and reforms
24.Mediterranean nationalism and colonialism: the Italian Risorgimento and the Mediterranean; modern Egypt; the "New Russia" and the Eastern Crisis
25. The Mediterranean and the two world wars
26. The Mediterranean and the Cold War
27. The Middle Eastern Conflict