Modern History

The course aims to offer both an introduction to the history of Europe within the context of transatlantic and global interactions from the end of the 15th to the first decades of the 19th Century (Part A) and an in-depth monographic analysis on specific phenomena in a global perspective, with a particular attention to the relations between past and present, facts, interpretations and cultural memory (Part B).

Thanks to the course, the interaction with the teacher, the individual examination of the documents analysed in class and/or individual learning (see. NF bibliography), the students will be able to:
· Acquire the knowledge of European history from the end of the 15th century to the first decades of the 19th century, with a specific focus on its prominent features.
· Understand the underlying demographic, social, economic, institutional, political, international, religious, and cultural dynamics of European History in the above-mentioned centuries from a transatlantic and global perspective.
· Learn to analyse critically sources and documents relevant to European history with a specific attention to past-present dynamics.
· Learn to explain the knowledge acquired both in an oral and/or written form.
· Learn to connect the knowledge acquired regarding European History phenomena, sources, and interpretations with other subjects of the curriculum.
The course aims at fostering students' ability to connect different epochs and issues of European history and analysing critically diverse sources. In addition, the course is intended to foster awareness of the historical depth both of the relation between Early modern Europe and today's globalized world, and the intrinsically cross-cultural and multicultural character of European societies and cultures in the past and in present time.