1. DEMONSTRATE A SYSTEMATIC UNDERSTANDING OF ITALY AND MEDITERRANEAN POLITICS WITHIN THE PERIOD c.1800-PRESENT WITH THEMES SUCH AS SOCIO-ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL STRUCTURES, WAR, NATIONALISM, FASCISM, SOCIALISM, POPULISM

2. DEMONSTRATE CRITICAL AWARENESS OF HISTORIOGRAPHICAL DEBATES ABOUT ITALY AND MEDITERRANEAN POLITICS THAT DRAW ON NATIONAL, COMPARATIVE AND TRANSNATIONAL APPROACHES.

3. DEMONSTRATE APPROPRIATE USE OF SECONDARY AND PRIMARY SOURCES IN THE ASSIGMENTS AND A CRITICAL AWARENESS OF THEIR RELATION TO HISTORIOGRAPHICAL DEBATES.

4. DEMONSTRATE FOR THE ASSIGNMENTS THE UNDERTAKING OF SUSTAINED GUIDED RESEARCH USING APPROPRIATE RESEARCH TECHNIQUES AND METHODOLOGY TO PROVIDE A CAREFULLY REASONED AND CRITICAL RESPONSE TO ASSIGNMENT QUESTIONS AS SET.

First Topic Assignment of 2,000 words (50%) chosen from a wide range of specific essay question choices assignment requires independent research, reflection, planning, drafting and referencing alongside the analysis evaluation and incorporation of appropriate primary source evidence.
Learning outcomes Knowledge & Understanding, Learning, Application.

Second Topic Assignment of 2,000 words (50%) chosen from a range of specific essay question choices. Assignment requires independent research, contextual understanding and critical reflection alongside the application of planning, drafting and appropriate referencing techniques.
Learning outcomes Knowledge & Understanding, Learning, Analysis.

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100% Coursework

The module uses national, comparative and transnational approaches to consider Italy in relation to Mediterranean politics from c. 1800-Present. Module topics may include: Napoleon in Italy and Egypt and the Geo-politics of the Mediterranean; Italian states, the Congress of Vienna and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Papacy, and the Spanish Bourbons; Liberal and Romantic internationalisms – Philhellenism, Mazzini and ‘Young Europe’; The Suez Canal and competing political interests; ‘Late’ Industrialisation and Socialist movements in Italy and Spain; WWI and the Austrian front, Irredentism and the Adriatic; Italian Fascism – Mussolini and ‘Mare Nostrum’ [the Mediterranean as ‘Our Sea’], North African colonies, military support with Germany against the Spanish Republic; World War II – Italian invasion into Albania, Yugoslavia and Greece; Allied landings in Sicily and the Italian Resistance; Italy, the Cold War, EEC/EU, Christian Democracy and Eurocommunism; Italy as a migrant destination – Balkans, North Africa, Syria; Populist Politics and the Mediterranean in Italy, Spain and Greece.

The module uses national, comparative and transnational approaches to consider Italy in relation to Mediterranean politics from c. 1800-Present. Module topics may include: Napoleon in Italy and Egypt and the Geo-politics of the Mediterranean; Italian states, the Congress of Vienna and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Papacy, and the Spanish Bourbons; Liberal and Romantic internationalisms – Philhellenism, Mazzini and ‘Young Europe’; The Suez Canal and competing political interests; ‘Late’ Industrialisation and Socialist movements in Italy and Spain; WWI and the Austrian front, Irredentism and the Adriatic; Italian Fascism – Mussolini and ‘Mare Nostrum’ [the Mediterranean as ‘Our Sea’], North African colonies, military support with Germany against the Spanish Republic; World War II – Italian invasion into Albania, Yugoslavia and Greece; Allied landings in Sicily and the Italian Resistance; Italy, the Cold War, EEC/EU, Christian Democracy and Eurocommunism; Italy as a migrant destination – Balkans, North Africa, Syria; Populist Politics and the Mediterranean in Italy, Spain and Greece.

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

Abulafia, David The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean, Penguin, London, 2014

Ben-Ghiat, Ruth & Fuller, Mia Italian Colonialism, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2008 pbk edn.

Isabella, Maurizio Risorgimento in exile: Italian émigrés and the liberal international in the post-Napoleonic era, OUP, Oxford, 2009

Isabella, Maurizio & Zanou, Constantina (eds.) Mediterranean Diasporas: Politics and Ideas in the Long 19th Century, Bloomsbury, London 2015
Adrian Lyttelton (ed.) Liberal and Fascist Italy, OUP, Oxford, 2002

Mediterranean Politics - Academic journal, Taylor & Francis, UK

Mazower, Mark Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century, Penguin, new edn. 2018

Moffit, Benjamin Populism (Key concepts in Political Theory), Polity, Oxford, 2020

Proglio, Gabriele et al. (eds.) The Black Mediterranean: Bodies, Borders and Citizenship (Mediterranean Perspectives), Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, forthcoming Jan 2021

Reeder, Linda Italy in the Modern World: Society, Culture & Identity, Bloomsbury, London, 2020

Library books, journals and electronic resources, including online subscription resources such as Oxford Reference Online and Blackwell Reference Online.
The Blackboard virtual learning environment will be available (where relevant) to support this module. Teaching space with digital projection.