CONTEMPORARY HISTORY

The aim of Contemporary History is to 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.

The knowledge in chronological sequence of the main events from the 1848 revolutions up to the breackup of the Soviet Union (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: M. Bloch, Apologia della storia o Mestiere di storico, Einaudi, Torino 1998.

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

3. Research: O. Roy, La santa ignoranza. Religioni senza cultura, Feltrinelli, Milano 2009.