CONTEMPORARY HISTORY

The aim of Contemporary History is offer a general comprehension: how to locate critically in time knowledge and competences and also create an interactive knowledge of languages, cultural studies and history. A further aim is to provoke a familiarity with methods of historiography. All this is possible by reviewing the different points of views of historians and by proposing, as a way of example, famous and relevant controversies; or through references to public debates on the disruptive memories of the Past.

A prerequisite is the knowledge in chronological sequence of the main events from the 1848 revolutions up to the breakup of the Soviet (1989-90), with a look to the following conflicts at the end of the East and West bipolarity and to the new sceneries of the globalization.

1. Methodology: T. Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, Tim Duggan Books, New York 2017, pp. 11-138..

2. Background: G. Sabbatucci, V. Vidotto, Il Mondo contemporaneo dal 1848 a oggi, Editori Laterza, Roma-Bari.

3. Research: A. Ventrone, “Vogliamo tutto”. Perché due generazioni hanno creduto nella rivoluzione 1960-1988, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2012, pp. 3-370.

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