MANHATTANVILLE COLLEGE 

 

 

History 2030                                Fall, 2003            

Italy Since 1800                            Mr. Bowling
                                              A. Bocus

                                                      

 

Books:

 

*John A. Davis., ed., Italy in the Nineteenth Century,
    1796-1900 (New York, 2001).

*Adrian Lyttleton, ed. Liberal & Fascist Italy, 1900-1945
    (New York, 2002).

*Patrick McCarthy, ed., Italy Since 1945 (New York,
    2000).

Anthony L. Cardoza, Aristocrats in Bourgeois Italy; the
    Piedmontese Nobility, 1861-1930 (Cambridge, 1998).

Frank M. Snowden, Violence and the Great Estates in
    the South of Italy; Apuila, 1900-1922 (Cambridge,
    1991).

Dino Cinel, The National Integration of Italian Return
    Migration, 1870-1929 (Cambridge, 1991).

Victoria De Grazia, The Culture of Consent; Mass
    Organization of Leisure in Fascist Italy (Cambridge,
    1981).

John Lamberton Harper, America & the Reconstruction
    of Italy, 1945-1948 (Cambridge, 1987).

Jon Cohen & Giovanni Federico, The Growth of the
    Italian Economy, 1820-1960 (Cambridge, 2001).

 

*These books will serve as our texts.  Students are
    encouraged to read and master their contents as
    soon as practicable.

 

Requirements:

 

     

Schedule:

 

       First Examination:  Monday, October 6^th.

       Second Examination:  Monday, November 10^th.

       Final Examination:  to be scheduled during the 
           examination period.

 

 

 

 

Topics to be Considered:

 

    The Classical Inheritance--and Ruins--of Italy

    The Italian Problem(s), c. 1800

    The Risorgimento Begins

    Forces Opposing the national idea

    The Players of the Hour:

        Mazzini

        Pio Nono

        Cavour

        Garibaldi

        Victor Emmanuel

    Difficulties of a New Kingdom

    The Catholic Question

    The Social Question

    The Giolittian Era

    Fascism: Its Intellectual Origins

    The Impact of the Great War, and Its Aftermath

    Mussolini and the Fascist Coup

    Gramsci: His Analysis and Legacy

    Building the Fascist State: Achievements and Frustrations

    Mussolini's Foreign Adventures: Restoring "Greatness"

    The Second World War Comes to Italy

    The Cold War Comes to Italy

    De Gasperi and Christian Democracy: Promise and
        Problems

    The Economic Miracle of Postwar Italy
    The Continuing Problems of "Blocked Democracy"

    The Legacy of 1968

    Trials and Tribulations: Terrorism in the 1970s

    The End of the Cold War Structure

    The War Against the Mafia (continued)

    Italy's New Cultural Impact on the World

    "Go Italy!"