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 social and economic dynamics in the early modern period.

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.
1) Population and demography
2) Society of ancient regime and forms of power
3) Geographic explorations, global routes and slavery
4) Professions, manufactures and guilds
5) Family and household
6) Social and economic networks
7) Urban spaces
8) Centre and periphery
9) Religious dimension
10) Poor, assistance and confraternities
11) Social tensions
12) Education

ATTENDING STUDENTS
Notes from lectures and reading of Gian Paolo Romagnani, La società di antico regime (XVI-XVIII secolo). Temi e problemi storiografici (Rome: Carocci, 2010)

NON-ATTENDING STUDENTS
- Gian Paolo Romagnani, La società di antico regime (XVI-XVIII secolo). Temi e problemi storiografici (Rome: Carocci, 2010)
- Charles H. Parker, Relazioni globali nell’età moderna 1400-1800 (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2012)

ATTENDING STUDENTS
A final written examination with open questions based on the compulsory reading and the notes taken by students during the lectures.

NON-ATTENDING STUDENTS
A final written examination with open questions based on the compulsory readings (see Referral texts).

The module consists in frontal lectures with the use of PowerPoints, with images, videos, maps and graphs.

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Attendance is not compulsory but is highly recommended. All students are asked to read the lecturer's notices on her web page and on Moodle.

Students with disabilities and/or SLD, who might need support services, are invited to contact the teacher and the University Office for Inclusion (inclusione@unive.it).

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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