B5114 - History of the Risorgimento and National Revolutions (1) (LM)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course, students will have a critical understanding of the phenomenon of the construction of nation-states and national ideas in the 19th century, with particular reference to the first half of the century. Secondly, they will be able to situate this process in the different continental contexts and to identify its main specificities. Thirdly, they will be able to reconstruct the phases of the Italian Risorgimento on the basis of the most recent Italian and international historiography. They will be able to recognise the relevance of historical memory in contemporary culture and the role of the historian in promoting a critical and scientific approach.

Course contents

The course focuses on the development of the movements for nationalities in Europe. The international contexts in the first half of the nineteenth century will be presented, and so the first global success of the free market, the forms of the state organization in a liberal-constitutional perspective as alternatives to traditional monarchies. Independence and sovereignty in Europe and in particular and in Italy will then be examined. The use of the national question as a "defensive" resource by different communities during the first half of the nineteenth century will also be deepened. At last, the process by which, among the possible "national solutions", only the one supported by the liberal-constitutional culture prevailed in the old continent will be emphasized.

Readings/Bibliography

Attending students:

1) Roberto Balzani, Carlo M. Fiorentino, Risorgimento: costituzione e indipendenza nazionale, 1815-1849, 1849-1866, Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino, 2022;

2) Arianna Arisi Rota, Risorgimento. Un viaggio politico e sentimentale, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2019;

3) one among the following books:

a) Ignazio Veca, Il mito di Pio IX. Storia di un papa liberale e nazionale, Roma, Viella, 2018;

c) Silvia Cavicchioli, I cimeli della patria. Politica della memoria nel lungo Ottocento, Roma, Cartocci, 2022;

d) Elena Musiani, L'Europa liberale. Un modello per i notabili dello Stato pontificio, Roma, Tab, 2022;

d) Carmine Pinto, Il brigante e il generale. La guerra di Carmine Crocco e Emilio Pallavicini di Priola, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2022;

4) teaching material on the website.

Students not attending:

1) Roberto Balzani, Carlo M. Fiorentino, Risorgimento: costituzione e indipendenza nazionale, 1815-1849, 1849-1866, Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino, 2022;

2) Arianna Arisi Rota, Risorgimento. Un viaggio politico e sentimentale, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2019;

3-4) and two among the following books:

a) Ignazio Veca, Il mito di Pio IX. Storia di un papa liberale e nazionale, Roma, Viella, 2018;

b) Silvia Cavicchioli, I cimeli della patria. Politica della memoria nel lungo Ottocento, Roma, Cartocci, 2022;

c) Elena Musiani, L'Europa liberale. Un modello per i notabili dello Stato pontificio, Roma, Tab, 2022;

d) Carmine Pinto, Il brigante e il generale. La guerra di Carmine Crocco e Emilio Pallavicini di Priola, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2022.

Teaching methods

Lectures and discussion of texts

Assessment methods

The exam is oral. There will be a debate on the books. Secondly, knowledge of the course contents will be tested (lessons).

Sufficiency will be achieved if the student is able to articulate a chronological and critical exposition of the principal phases of the discipline, adequately displayed.

An intermediate grade will be assigned to students who demonstrate, in addition to a good chronological and critical preparation, an adequate competence in relation to the sources.

In order to achieve excellence in the assessment, the student must demonstrate an organic vision of the topics addressed in class and in the texts on the syllabus, combining it with expressive mastery and specific language. This organic vision must integrate knowledge of manuals, historiography, and exegesis of the sources.

A student will be deemed to have failed the exam if he displays significant errors in his understanding and failure to grasp the overall outlines of the subject, together with a poor command of the appropriate terminology.

Students enrolled in the course as part of an Integrated Course (I.C.) must pass the examination of both parts on the same day (the final grade will be the arithmetic average of the marks obtained in the two parts).

Students who attend at least 75% of the lessons are considered to be attending.

Exam sessions are scheduled for the following months of the academic year:

may, june, july, september, october, november

for all students; oral mode.

 

Teaching tools

A PPT will be at disposal in the teaching material on the website with the lessons discussed during the course.

Students who require specific services and adaptations to teaching activities due to a disability or specific learning disorders (SLD), must first contact the appropriate office: https://site.unibo.it/studenti-con-disabilita-e-dsa/en/for-students .

Office hours

See the website of Roberto Balzani