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ACCIAI ENRICO
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Global History has come into its own as a scholarly enterprise at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Spurred by ongoing processes of globalization it flourishes as one of the most important developments in the discipline of history today. This course will introduce students to the literature on and practice of global history, looking at the relation between Europe and the rest of the world from the late eighteenth century to the beginning of the twenty first century. In this course, global Entanglements and local specificities, interactions, and hierarchies will be expressed in critical historical approaches. Moreover, global history will be investigated on defined objects and multiple scales (of object themselves, of time and space). The course will be divided into two main parts. After a week dedicated to the historiographical debates related to Global history, the main focuses of the classes will be on Actors and Spaces in a global scale. Students will be expected to write a short research paper on a topic in global history.
Contents:
Every week consists in 3 classes (2 hours each).
Week 1 Why global history? The historiographical debate, and beyond
Week 2 Actors. Migration and exile: the making of the modern global world
Week 3 Actors. Transnational War Volunteers as global actors in Modern Times
Week 4 Actors. Global radical lives
Week 5 Mid-Term test and “How to write a research paper”?
Week 6 Spaces. Revolutions in global perspective
Week 7 Spaces. Transatlantic circulation of Ideas during the 20th Century
Week 8 Spaces. The Cold War in the Global South
Week 9 A global approach to our times and general conclusions of the course
 Text books:
• Sebastian Conrad, What is global history? (Princeton, 2016)
• Richard Drayton and David Motadel, “Discussion: the futures of global history” in: Journal of Global History, (2018) 13, pp. 1-21 [a copy of this article will be provided by the Teacher during the first week of classes]
Students will also have to choose one book among the following list and to discuss it at the final oral exam (two books for non-attending students):
• Enrico Acciai, Garibaldi’s Radical Legacy: Traditions of War Volunteering in Southern Europe (New York, 2020)
• Federico Finchelstein, From Fascism to Populism in History (Oakland, 2017)
• Michael Goebel, Anti-imperial metropolis: interwar Paris and the seeds of third world nationalism (Cambridge, 2015)
• Tim Harper, Global Revolutionaries and the Assault on Empire (Cambridge, 2020)
• David Motadel, Revolutionary World. Global Upheaval in Modern Age (Cambridge 2021)
• Arne Odd Westad, The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times (Cambridge, 2005)
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