Contemporary History

The course aims to face the main historical events in the contemporary age through a global approach in connection to the western society's cultural change.

The key purpose of the course is to give the students the necessary knowledge to figure out the most important historical processes occurred during the so-called "long" Nineteenth and "short" Twentieth centuries and concerning the birth of the modern ideologies, the evolution of the national identities, the spread of the political parties, the origin of totalitarianism, the rise and fall of the international bipolarism.