DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Bachelor's Degree in Sociology and Social Work
Academic Year 2015/2016 - 1° Year - Single / L-39 Curriculum

CONTEMPORARY HISTORY

Teaching Staff

Detailed Course Content

• L'ETÀ DELL'INDUSTRIA E LA SOCIETÀ BORGHESE
  

  The first module of the course aims to offer a cultural journey through which the student will acquire the necessary theoretical and methodological tools to "read" the institutional changes, social and economic conditions of the contemporary world with particular reference to technological development, a new organization job's and modern production systems. In particular, depth will be the theme of the construction of infrastructure during the nineteenth century.

  Will investigate the following themes: the birth and evolution of the European continent in late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; the Birth of new social classes: workers and middle-class in the new nation-states, between the Marxist tradition and the contemporary historiography; Capitalism between imperialism and colonialism; The national unification in Italy and Germany; The nationalization of the masses; Liberal Italy; The age of the crisis; Fascism and Nazism; The '"golden age" of the economy; Cold War and decolonization. The development of railways in Italy.

• LA COSTRUZIONE DEI SISTEMI DI WELFARE
  

  The lessons will offer a course that aims to provide a long-term study on the welfare state; the analysis will build on looking after the social policies between the wars with particular reference to the 1929 crisis and the launch of the New Deal, to follow the construction lines of the English and Scandinavian welfare.

  The second module is divided into the following themes: social policies between the two wars; the welfare state in England and in the North of Europe.

   

Textbook Information

• L'ETÀ DELL'INDUSTRIA E LA SOCIETÀ BORGHESE
  

  AaVv., Storia contemporanea, manuali Donzelli, ult. ed., limitatamente ai seguenti capitoli: 3. L’età dell’industria (C. Fumian); 4. La società e le classi (P. Macry); 5. L’unificazione nazionale in Italia e in Germania (M. Meriggi); 6. La nazionalizzazione delle masse (A. M. Banti); 7. L’Italia liberale (R. Romanelli); 10. Imperialismo e colonialismo (G. Barone); 14. Tra le due guerre: l’età della crisi (G. Berta); 15. Fascismo e Nazismo (S. Lupo);18. L’«età dell’oro» dell’economia (M. Franzini); 19. Guerra fredda e decolonizzazione (F. Romero).

  G. Canciullo, Le ferrovie siciliane tra arretratezza e sviluppo, Maimone ed., Catania 2016.

• LA COSTRUZIONE DEI SISTEMI DI WELFARE
  

  F. Conti, G. Silei, Breve storia dello stato sociale, Carocci, Roma 2010 (5° ristampa), limitatamente ai capitoli 3 e 4.