The course addresses issues of historical methodology, such as sources, periodization, historical interpretation, as well as investigates the central themes of the nineteenth-century European history, i.e. The 18th century revolutions; The Napoleonic Era; The Restoration; The Greek Revolution; The Belgian War of Independence; The 1848 Revolutions; Italian Unification; The Crimean War; Colonialism; The Balkan Wars; WWI.
The last part of the course will focus on the analysis of the “Venice case” and its pivotal role in this age. The following theme will be addressed:The end of the Republic of Venice and Napoleonic campaigns in Italy; Venice at the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century: from the Provisional Municipality to the first Austrian rule; Venice under Napoleon; The Congress of Vienna and the Restoration of Austrian rule of Venice (1815-1848); Daniele Manin and the Venetian Revolution of 1848-49; The last Austrian rule of Venice and the annexation of Venice to the Kingdom of Italy (1849-1866).