Prof. Rosario Forlenza

Argomenti del programma: Global History – the search to understand how human societies have developed as an interactive community across the world – has come into its own as a scholarly enterprise between the end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first century. Spurred by ongoing processes of globalization, it flourishes as one of the most important developments in the discipline of history today.

Argomenti del programma: Revolutions have been one of the most salient aspects of political modernity, or “the locomotives of history,” as Marx wrote in 1850. Beyond repeating the cliché that revolutions are the driving forces of social and political transformation, the goal in this class is to think through revolutions in their historical time as well as across history from the perspective of political anthropology.