The course aims at endowing students with time and space coordinates in order to understand the 19th-Century Nation-building and ideas-building processes, with a special focus on the first half of the century and on the Mediterranean framework with its peculiar political, social and economic dynamics. The teaching units will also make students able to connect the Risorgimento case-study with the general framework and in comparison with other national processes, according to the most recent Italian and international historiography.
Course Prerequisites
Background knowledge of general 19th-Century history is welcomed
Teaching Methods
Lectures will have an around the table seminar format based on interaction and analysis carried on by the teacher, engaging students on the base of the analysed cases.
Assessment Methods
Oral exam. Grading of attendant students will include evaluation of their in class participation and of their final paper. Non attendant students will be evaluated on the base of their knowledge of the agreed upon bibliography and of their two final papers.
Texts
M. Isabella, K. Zanou, Introduction, in M. Isabella, K. Zanou (eds), Mediterranean Diasporas. Politics and Ideas in the Long 19th Century, London, Bloomsbury, 2016, 1-23, also available on the Kiro webpage of the course; A. Arisi Rota, Risorgimento. Un viaggio politico e sentimentale, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2019, chapt. 5-10 for attendant students, the whole book for non attendant students; Proprietà e politica: esilio, sequestri e confische nel Lungo Ottocento italiano, special issue of MEFRIM, 129/2017, open access at: https://journals.openedition.org/mefrim/3090 Further reading references and visual sources will be provided during the course. Non attendant students are required to contact the teacher at the very beginning of the course in order to agree upon the reading references and the topics of the two final papers which are to be mailed to the teacher at least 15 days before the cosen exam date.
Contents
The teahcing units will deal from a chronological and issues-based perspective with the struggles for national independence in the post-Napoleonic Southern Europe, with a special focus on the 1820s and 1830 trnsnational crises and on the circulation of people, ideas, consitutional projects and even of political objetcs, within the framework of the so-called "Mediterranean liberalism". Special attention will be devoted to exile form ant to the various Mediterranean shores meant as vehicle for political practices and professional expertise, but also as a trauma and an opportunity both for individuals and groups, as recently stressed by international historical reserach. Lectures will be based also on coheval and visual sources.
Course Language
Italian
More information
Some teaching units might host as guest lecturers Italian and/or foreign scholars researching in the fields dealt with by the course lectures
