Teacher
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SANFILIPPO Matteo
(syllabus)
History of the West (Central-Western Europe and the Americas). Key Topics: 1. Definition and chronology of the modern age; 2. From the black plague to humanistic development; 3. Ottoman expansion and division of the Mediterranean; 4. Discovery and conquest of the New Worlds; 5. The Protestant Reformations (Lutheran, Calvinist, Anglican); 6. Charles V: the Empire against France; 7. Elizabeth I of England and Philip II of Spain: the clash on the sea; 8. The Thirty Years War and the End of the Religious Wars; 9. The English revolutions; 10. The France of Louis XIV and the struggle for European dominance; 11. Europe in the eighteenth century: political balance and technological-economic innovation; 12. The age of the Revolutions: United States, France, 1848; 13. The social and cultural evolution between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; 14. The national question in the nineteenth century; 15. Migration and mobility in the modern age
(reference books)
1) General Part: Franco Benigno, L'età moderna. Dalla scoperta dell'America alla Restaurazione (Laterza 2014). 2) Monographic Part: Massimo Donattini, Dal Nuovo Mondo all’America. Scoperte geografiche e colonialismo (secoli XV-XVI) (Carocci 2016; Tiziano Bonazzi, La rivoluzione americana, Il Mulino 2018; Federica Morelli, L’indipendenza dell’America spagnola, Mondadori Education 2014 Non-attending students must bring also: Matteo Sanfilippo, Nuovi problemi di storia delle migrazioni italiane, Sette Città 2015 For a second exam, for the general part students must bring instead of Franco Benigno, L’età moderna, these two books: Giuseppe Patisso, L’impero del Giglio, Carocci 2018; William Penn, Brevi scritti per la Pennsylvania, a cura di Clara Bartocci e Marinella Salari, Morlacchi 2018. The monographic part is the same as for the first exam
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