ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL HISTORY OF MODERN AGE

The course is part of the related/integrative activities of the History degree course, which prepare students to reconstruct and understand, with the method of critical investigation, the succession of different economies and societies in their mutual connections through the events and phenomena of the past.

At the end of the course students will be able to critically evaluate the economic dynamics of a given society.

No prerequisite is requested

The educational objective of the course is to provide students with the historiographical and methodological tools for the analysis of the socio-economic dynamics of the ancient regime. In particular, the second part of the course will analyze the cases of Venice, Genoa and Florence between the XIV and XVII centuries in order to determine similarities and differences in different power structures.

Population and social change
Institutions and economic growth
Merchants and networks
The basis of trust
Mediterranean and Northern models
Three cases in comparison: Venice, Genoa and Florence
Kinship structures
The management of power
The economic system

P. Malanima, Economia preindustriale. Mille anni: dal IX al XVIII secolo, Milano, Mondadori, 1997

Attending students:
Notes from lectures and reading of P. Malanima, Economia preindustriale. Mille anni: dal IX al XVIII secolo, Milano, Mondadori, 1997

Non attending students must read the following texts:

P. Malanima, Economia preindustriale. Mille anni: dal IX al XVIII secolo, Milano, Mondadori, 1997
P. Malanima, L'economia italiana. Dalla crescita medievale alla crescita contemporanea, Bologna, il Mulino, 2002
K. G. Perrson, Storia economica d'Europa. Conoscenza, istituzioni e crescita, Santarcangelo, Maggioli, 2014

Frontal lectures with large use of tables and graphs

Italian

written

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