B019290 - HISTORY OF NORTH AMERICA

Italian

Knowledge of the origins of the civil war, its development and its international implications

The American Civil War on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of its conclusion

Knowledge of english

Frontal lessons

Oral exam

April 9, 1865, the Confederate General Robert Lee, commander of the Northern Virginia Army, met, at the village of Appomattox Court House, with January Ulysses Grant to negotiate the surrender of the Confederacy after four years of civil war. On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the end of the tragic conflict, the course traces the political and military events of this period with a focus on international and diplomatic relations kept by both sides studied through the papers of the US State Department. Part of the course is also devoted to relations with Italy, not only with regard to the supposed participation of Garibaldi in command of the Northern Army but also for the interest aroused by the war in Italian military and its interpretation through the papers of mission in the United States undertaken in 1864 by Colonel Vincent de Bassecourt for the Italian Ministry of War.

Libri di testo: A. Testi, La formazione degli Stati Uniti, Bologna, il Mulino, 2013; R. Luraghi, La guerra civile americana. Le ragioni e i protagonisti del primo conflitto industriale, Milano, Rizzoli BUR, 2013; materiale fornito dal docente nel corso delle lezioni.