ECONOMICS HISTORY OF MEDITERRANEAN

Academic year
2023/2024 Syllabus of previous years
Official course title
STORIA ECONOMICA DEL MEDITERRANEO
Course code
LT2461 (AF:468523 AR:223476)
Modality
On campus classes
ECTS credits
6
Degree level
Bachelor's Degree Programme
Educational sector code
SECS-P/12
Period
2nd Semester
Course year
2
Where
VENEZIA
Students of the Middle East languages and cultures in our Department are generally accustomed with what people thought and wrote, whereas this course aims at teaching what people ate, drank, how they warmed themselves up, how/what they sold and how/what they bought. Analysing a society without having a clue of such essential phenomena may lead to distorting ideas and interpretations, especially in view of further developments in the education or in the professional profile of our students.
The course aims at presenting the economic development in a historical and comparative perspective, dating from 15th to 20th century. Light will be shed on the demographical, environmental, institutional and social factors that determined the industrialization process and the difference bewteen wealthy and needy countries. The main purpose will be to let the students acquire the capacity to understand economic phenomena as historically determined phenomena.
Any student may attend the course.
The Medieval heritage;
Europe at the conquest of the world: commercial capitalism;
The dawn of modern industry;
19th-century's economic development: determining factors;
Models of development: the first industrial countries;
Models of development: the late-comers and the absents;
20th-century's world economy;
The disintegration of world economy;
The reconstruction of world economy, 1945-73;
Competitive perspectives.
P. Malanima, Pre-Modern European Economy. One Thousand Years (10th-19th centuries), Brill (Leiden and Boston) 2009.
Individually, students will have to answer to questions related to the topics dealt with during class and in the volume by Paolo Malanima (see bibliography).
Lectures and eventual trip to sites of interest.
English
oral
Definitive programme.
Last update of the programme: 24/06/2023