Political and social issues in the immediate second postwar period in Italy.
Course Program for 2019-2020 academic year
Social History
Professor Maria Teresa Giusti
email: mt.giusti62@gmail.com m.giusti@unich.it
The course aims at analysing the path in reconstructing the Italian State, from a political and social point of view, in the second postwar period; the resumption of relations with other powers after the military defeat; the recovery of prisoners of war and the reintegration of the veterans; the strategies of Italian politics aimed at legitimating the new democracy at a European and world level. The creation of a Republican Welfare State.
Program for students who take the exam for 6 academic credits:
- G. Mammarella, L'Italia contemporanea. 1943-2011, Bologna, Il Mulino
- M.T. Giusti, Gli internati militari italiani, dai Balcani, in Germania e nell'Urss. Cura e traduzione di documenti inediti bielorussi, Roma, Rodorigo
- S. Colarizi, Un paese in movimento. L'Italia negli anni Sessanta e Settanta, Laterza, 2019
The syllabus aims at providing the Students in the knowledge of some themes regarding social and political questions soon after the II World War. Referring to the general objectives, and taking into account the objectives referred to the Course of Study, at the end of the course the students will have to reach a critical attitude which allows them to evaluate the cause-effect relationships of the historical events; they will have to analyse the historical phenomena; to identify the social questions connected to political decisions making; to know the solutions suggested by the Italian Republican governments; to know some particular aspects of the Italian Welfare State; to compare historical events. As regards the specific objectives of the discipline, the students are required to gain a correct command of the specific historical language referred to the studied contents; they are required to carry out a research on social issues; to know the historiography about specific themes; to collect bibliographic material and information; to grasp connections of events; to report to the working group on a specific topic; to write a text with notes; to analyze a socio-political case in a critical way.
