SOCIAL HISTORY

This course provides skills and sensitivity especially for students who want to deepen a historical or anthropological path. It can be inserted as a choice exam in various master's degree courses

The educational objectives of this course consist in introducing methods for interpreting crises and transformations of contemporary society, in addition to identifying both their problematic issues and the ways to use the most suitable historical sources for social history. Students are therefore led to recognize the factors of various social phenomena, to grasp the characteristics of the mentality of an era and to elaborate patterns of social interpretation of an event or historical period. Approach to the use of certain sources for social history research.

No prerequisite required, beyond the general knowledge of the phenomena of modern and contemporary history.

Crisis of the ancient regime, emergence of the first industrial revolution and transformation of social protest.
Through the analysis of the concerns for the loss of customary paternalistic protections, will be studied the transformation of traditional community conflicts into modern forms of conflict in nineteenth-century capitalist society.

FOR ALL 4 texts, one for each of the following groups:

1) a basic methodological text, to be chosen from:
- Marco Meriggi, Storia dell'Europa tra Otto e Novecento, Roma, Carocci, 2013.
- Francesco Benigno, Parole nel tempo. Un lessico per pensare la storia, Roma, Viella, 2013

2) Karl Polanyi, La Grande Trasformazione, Torino, Einaudi, 2010

3) A text of classification of the great problems of an era of intense transformations, chosen from:
- Edward P. Thompson, Società patrizia, cultura plebea: otto saggi di antropologia storica sull'Inghilterra del Settecento, Torino, Einaudi, 1987; or the most recent and extensive English version: Customs in common, London, Merlin, 2010 (or earlier Penguin ones)
- Edard P. Thompson, Rivoluzione industriale e classe operaia in Inghilterra, Milano, Bruno Mondadori, 1969
- Maurice Agulhon, Pénitents et franc-maçons de l'ancenne Provence, Paris, Fayard, 1984
- Maurice Agulhon, La Repubblica nel villaggio. Una comunità francese tra Rivoluzione e Seconda Repubblica, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1991
- Eugen Weber, Da contadini a francesi, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1986
- Georges Lefebvre, La Grande Paura del 1789, Torino, Einaudi, 1989
- Michel Vovelle, Battaglie per la rivoluzione francese, Milano, Panta Rei, 2014
- Michel Vovelle, La Rivoluzione francese 1789-1799, Milano, Guerini scientifica, 2016
- Eric J. Hobsbawm, Le rivoluzioni borghesi 1789-1848, Milano, Res Gestae, 2016.
- Eric J. Hobsbawm, GeorgesRudé, Rivoluzione industriale e rivolta nelle campagne, Milano, Res Gestae, 2013
- Franco Ramella, Terra e telai. Sistemi di parentela e manifattura nel Biellese dell'Ottocento, Torino, Einaudi, 1984
- Louis Chevalier, Classi lavoratrici e classi pericolose, Bari, Laterza, 1976
- Peter Burke, Cultura popolare nell'Europa moderna, Milano, Mondadori, 1980.
- Michail Bachtin, L'opera di Rabelais e la cultura popolare. Riso, Carnevale e festa nella tradizione medievale e rinascimentale, Torino, Einaudi, 1979.
- Croquants et nu-pieds: les soulèvements paysans en France du 16. au 19. siècle, a cura di Yves-Marie Bercé, Paris, Gallimard, 1991
- Yves-Marie Bercé, Festa e rivolta, Cosenza, Pellegrini, 1985
- Yves Marie Bercé, Violences et repression dans la France moderne, Paris, CNRS, 2018
- Francesco Benigno, La mala setta. Alle origini di mafia e camorra 1859-1878, Torino, Einaudi, 2015.

4) A text choosen from:
- Piero Brunello, Ribelli, questuanti e banditi. Proteste contadine in Veneto e Friuli, 1814-1866, Sommacampagna-Verona, Cierre, 2011
- Piero Brunello, Colpi di scena. La rivoluzione del quarantotto a Venezia, Sommacampagna-Verona, Cierre, 2018
- Marco Fincardi, Derisioni notturne. Racconti di serenate alla rovescia, Santa Maria Capua Vetere, Spartaco, 2005
- Marco Fincardi, Il rito della derisione. La satira notturna delle battarelle in Veneto, Trentino e Friuli Venezia Giulia, Sommacampagna-Verona, Cierre, 2009
- Eric J. Hobsbawm, I ribelli. Forme primitive di rivolta sociale, Torino, Einaudi, 2002
- Eric J. Hobsbawm, I banditi. Il banditismo sociale nell'età moderna, Torino, Einaudi, 2002.

FOR NON-ATTENDING STUDENTS are required to read a fifth text (readings, however, recommended to all): a nineteenth-century novel chosen from:
- Ippolito Nievo, Le memorie di un ottuagenario
- Giovanni Ruffini, Lorenzo Benoni
- Thomas Hardy, Il sindaco di Casterbridge.

Questions on various aspects touched by the course and discussion on the contents learned. During the oral examination the student must demonstrate not only to know the topics covered during the course, but also to know how to expose them in an appropriate form.

oral

Lectures and in-class discussions. Analysis of some sources.

The professor holds office hours during the time indicated in the personal webpage. For email contacts: fincardi@unive.it

This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Poverty and inequalities" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development