Prof. Marcello Verga  

                                      World  History                  I term 2020-2021

                                              Syllabus

Contac Information

Prof. Marcello Verga, prof. of Early Modern History

e.mail: marcello.verga@unifi.it

Course Objectives:

This course is designed to give you tools to understand an increasingly interconnected world and to discuss from a critical point of view the categories of modernity and modernization and their use in the writing history.

This course will focus specifically on two main issues:

1)     The analysis of the long-running processes that have prepared the globalized world we live.

2)    World History as an instrument for the peace among peoples and the History’s textbooks promoted by the UNESCO, EUROPEAN UNION  and COUNCIL OF EUROPE.  

REQUIRED READING:

1)  C. Bayly, The Birth of Modern World, Blackwell 2004

2)    C. H. Parker, Global Interactions in the Early Modern Age 1400-1800

3)    UNESCO and EU documents that will be sent by e-mail from the teacher to the students