The Rise and Fall of Internationalism in the 19th and 20th centuries. Issues, sources, interpretations

Sante Lesti

Seminars

The course will treat in a series of seminars moments and aspects of international projects in the 19th and 20th centuries, as a part of global perspectives on contemporary history. Particular attention will be devoted to interactions and conflicts between international projects, nation-states and nationalism, social and transnational change. Analyses will also investigate change, transformations, and crises of universalist and international projects in the new century. Students are expected to take active part in seminars on assigned readings.

Akira Iriye, Cultural Internationalism and World Order, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimora, 1997

Mark Mazower, Governing the World. The History of an Idea, The Penguin Press, New York, 2012

Glenda Sluga, Internationalism in the Age of Nationalism, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 2013

Glenda Sluga, Patricia Clavin (eds.), Internationalisms: A Twentieth Century History, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2017