The course will focus on the the major geopolitical, institutional, religious and social issues of the centuries of modernity in a non-Eurocentric key, starting from the geographical discoveries up to the first decades of the XIX century, deepening the problems of the Atlantic, European, Mediterranean and Asian space between the XV and XIX centuries. Particular attention will be given to the birth of the Ottoman Empire and its relations with European powers and with the Mediterranean space
1. L. Mascilli Migliorini, L'età moderna. Una storia globale, Editori Laterza, bari-Roma 2020.
2. J. Goodwin, I signori degli orizzonti. Una storia dell'Impero ottomano, Einaudi, Torino 2009.
Learning Objectives
In line with the topics described in the program, at the end of the course students will have to demonstrate that they have acquired knowledge and understanding skills about the issues addressed, which extend and/or strengthen previous ones and which allow to develop and/or apply original ideas in a context of historical research; to be able to apply them critically not only within the classroom but in wider and interdisciplinary contexts. Students must be able to integrate the knowledge acquired, manage complexity and demonstrate that they have acquired autonomy of judgment in reconstructing and analyzing the historical issues faced in the classroom; to know how to communicate their conclusions, as well as the knowledge and ratio underlying them, to specialist and non-specialist interlocutors in a clear, critical and unambiguous way; to have developed those learning skills that allow them to continue studying in a more self-directed or autonomous way
Prerequisites
General knowledge of European and world history (15th-19th century)
Teaching Methods
The training course of the course aims to provide students with the knowledge and methodological tools necessary for the study and critical analysis of the texts provided by the exam program and teaching aids by the teacher (power point, slides and sources). The 36 hours foreseen for the teaching activity will be distributed between lectures, viewing of historical documentaries, reading and critical analysis of the sources
Further information
Teaching will take place in dual mode, allowing (in shifts) participation in face-to-face lessons and at the same time guaranteeing remote attendance (on the Meet platform) for those who cannot access the locations due to logistical, health or economic difficulties. The actual lessons will last 40 minutes each
Type of Assessment
The oral exam, at the end of the course, will aim to ascertain the acquisition of the right knowledge related to the program carried out and the necessary critical sense developed
Course program
Geographical conquests and birth of modernity, Ottoman rise and expansionism, Renaissance Europe, the Mediterranean between Charles V and Suleiman, the discovery of Asia, Lutheran reform and the wars of religion, European instability and rise of English power, birth of the Atlantic space, the Ottoman lake, Africa in modernity, the non-Mediterranean Mediterranean, the world Revolutions: American and French, the America of the Americans, the Mediterranean from the periphery to the center, the "great sick" Ottoman Empire, the Romantic Europe