MODERN HISTORY

M-STO/02 - 9 CFU - 2° Semester

Teaching Staff

ELENA FRASCA
SALVATORE ROBERTO TUFANO


Learning Objectives

Study of European and extra-European history between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. Deepening of specific topics linked to the main events of the modern age. Ability to link the most important political-institutional events with the social, demographic and economic changes.


Course Structure

Oral lessons; films and documentaries related to the topics; educational excursions; interviews and/or group projects, texts "in itinere".



Detailed Course Content

History of Europe between XVI and XIX centuries: events, revolts, revolutions, politics, society, economy, demography, education, family.



Textbook Information

Corso generale

- F. Benigno, L’età moderna. Dalla scoperta dell’America alla Restaurazione, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2005.

Other textbooks can be agreed with the professor.

Monographic course:

The training trip

S. Raffaele (a cura di), Il sapore dell’antico. Regia Custodia, Grand Tour… e altro nella Sicilia del Sette-Ottocento, Catania, Cuecm, 2007,

 

toghether with one of the following modules:

 

  1. Culture and antiquity

 

 

  1. Family and society

 

  1. Education and politics



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