The module will be delivered through lectures, seminars and tutorials. Blackboard will also be used to support the delivery of the module.

Key Information Set Data:
16% scheduled learning and teaching activities
84% guided independent learning

First Topic assignment of 1800 words (35%)
Learning outcomes 1,2,4

Sources assignment of 800 words (25%)
Learning outcomes 1,2,3

Second Topic assignment of 2400 words (40%)
Learning outcomes 1,2,4

Key Information Set Data:
100% Coursework

Taking the period of c.1860 to the present day the module covers themes such as the nature of the 'Liberal' state that followed Italian unification, imperialism, nationalism, and socialism in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Italy, Futurism as a cultural movement, Italy's entry into the First World War in 1915, Mussolini and the rise of Italian Fascism, The Fascist Regime in social, cultural, political and economic context, including imperial conquest, World War II and the fall of Fascism, The Resistance movement and the Allies, the growth of the entrepreneurial mafia, student and worker revolts and feminism, the impact of consumer society and individualism on politics and the media, the rise to prominence of Berlusconi and his critics, football and identities, successor administrations to Berlusconi and responses to the economic crisis.
In the topic assignment students can follow up in more depth a topic from the module content; for the sources assignment there is a choice of source documents, written and visual, with guidance on how to provide a historical commentary on them
Note: a prior knowledge of the period in Italian history is not assumed, and knowledge of Italian is not required.

Library books, journals (especially Modern Italy and Journal of Modern Italian Studies) and electronic resources, including online subscription resources such as Oxford Reference Online and Blackwell Reference Online.
The Blackboard virtual learning environment to support this module. Details will be supplied in the module handbook.

Bosworth R. J. B. [2006]: Mussolini's Italy: Life Under the Dictatorship, 1915-1945 (Penguin, Harmondsworth)
Carter N. [2010]: Modern Italy in Historical Perspective (Bloomsbury Academic, London)
Clark M. [2008 3rd edn]: Modern Italy 1871 to the Present (Longman, London)
Dickie J. M. [2012]: Mafia Brotherhoods - Camorra, Mafia, 'Ndrangheta: The rise of the honoured societies (Sceptre, London)
Dickie J.M. [2013]: Mafia Republic - Italy's criminal curse: Cosa Nostra, Camorra and 'Ndrangheta from 1946 to the present (Sceptre, London)
Duggan C. [2008]: The Force of Destiny: A History of Italy Since 1796 (Penguin, London)
Finaldi G. [2008]: Giuseppe Mussolini and Italian Fascism (Pearson Longman)
Foot J. C. [2007 rvd edn]: A History of Italian Football (Fourth Estate, London)
Foot J. C. [2014 2edn.]: Modern Italy (Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke)
Ginsborg P. [2005]: Silvio Berlusconi: Television, Power and Patrimony (Verso, London)
Lyttelton A. (ed.) [2002]: Liberal and Fascist Italy (OUP, Oxford)
McCarthy P. (ed) [2000]: Italy Since 1945 (OUP, Oxford)
Willson P. [2009]: Women in Twentieth-Century Italy (Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke)