History of Europe. Politics, institutions and society. Reconstruction, democratic stabilization, economic and social transformation. From the end of the Second world war to the end of the cold war.
For the general European history
William I. Hitchcock, Il continente diviso. Storia dell’Europa dal 1945 a oggi, Carocci Roma, 2003
For the Italian history:
Simona Colarizi, Storia politica della Repubblica, 1943-2006, Roma Bari, Laterza, 2007.
Learning Objectives
General knowledge of European history from the end of the second world war to the end of the cold war
Prerequisites
General Knowlge of contemporary history
Teaching Methods
lesson and panel
Type of Assessment
Examination: written with open questions; oral facultative. The student can take on one or two parts at each exam session.
Course program
I period: The general contest after the war. The reconstruction. The great transformation of the fifties. De Gaulle and the European “glaciation” of the sixties. Europe at the eve of the ’68.
II period: The end of the after war history. The seventies and the international détente. The fourth industrial revolution. The eighties and the renewed cold war. The fall of the Berlin wall and the end of the European partition.