Poland is among the European states the one that has lived, from the modern age to the present, the most troubled existence. Crushed between two giants, the Russian and the German, canceled twice by the political paper and sometimes risen from their ashes and those of a continent upset by world conflicts that designated it the scene of the most serious human catastrophes of recent history, reconstituted by new frontiers, has recovered stability at the price of its political autonomy. Only the last twenty years, appealing to the determination and courage of all its social and intellectual forces, has regained full independence with the dissolution of the geopolitical system to whose crisis has made a decisive contribution. The course aims to retrace the most important events in the history of Poland to compare with those of continental Europe. Moments of union but also of division, of meetings but also of contrasts. Events that make Poland a laboratory? of unique ideas and institutional forms in the modern and contemporary Europe.
knowledge and understanding; during the lessons, students will try to increase a critical awareness of the historical events analyzed with particular reference to the historical reality of Central and Eastern Europe between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Students will be able to understand the historical-political evolution of the central-eastern states during the modern age.
1)applying knowledge and understanding; Through the classroom discussion, individual study and, with the possible research carried out by study groups, students will be able to develop research projects, also by resorting to the examination of unpublished sources to be submitted to the judgment of the teacher and of those attending seminar meetings.
2)making judgements; Students will be able to analyze and synthesize original texts and documents they will be able to make independent judgments
3)communication skills; Attending students will have to present the results of the recommended and agreed critical readings at the beginning of the lessons, suitably integrated also by web searches.
4)learning skills The verification of the acquired knowledge will serve to highlight and fill any previous gaps.