Section Name Description
File Syllabus 2020-2021
File Abbattista Guido, Istruzioni per la redazione di relazioni, tesine e tesi
URL Storia globale: accesso alla videoregistrazione delle lezioni su Stream

Questo link permette di accedere direttamente alle lezioni videoregistrate del corso di Metodologia della ricerca storica 2020-2021

Sezione 1. Letture File Pagine scelte da La Cina nella storia globale

Guido Samarani, a cura di, La Cina nella storia globale. Percorsi e tendenze (Milano: Guerini e Associati, 2019), pagine scelte:

- Guido Samarani, "Introduzione", pp. 9-20,

- William H. McNeill, "L'ascesa dell'Occidente: cosmopolitismo su scala globale", pp. 21-108,

- Jonathan Daly, "Storia mondiale", pp. 137-162.

File Pagine scelte da Jared Diamond, Armi, acciaio e malattie (1997)

Da Jared Diamond, Armi acciaio e malattie. Breve storia del mondo negli ultimi tredicimila anni (Torino: Einaudi, 1997):

  • Luca e Francesco Cavalli Sforza, "Introduzione"
  • "Prologo. La domanda di Yali"
  • "Cap. XI. Il dono fatale del bestiame"

File Giovan Battista Ramusio, "“Discorso notabile sopra varii viaggi per li quali sono state condotte fino a’ tempi nostri le spezierie e altri nuovi che se potriano usare per condurle” (1554)

Giovan Battista Ramusio, "“Discorso notabile sopra varii viaggi per li quali sono state condotte fino a’ tempi nostri le spezierie e altri nuovi che se potriano usare per condurle”, in Navigationi et viaggi, Venezia, ne la stamperia de' Giunti, I volume, seconda edizione, 1554, pp. 409-411 v.

File Ramusio, "Discorso sopra le spezierie" (1554)

"Discorso di M. Gio. Battista Ramusio sopra varii viaggi per li quali sono state condotte fino a' tempi nostri le spezierie

e altri nuovi che se potriano usare per condurle", in Navigazioni e viaggi, a cura di Marica Milanesi, Torino, Einaudi, 1979, vol. II, pp. 959-990

File Giovan Battista Ramusio, "“Discorso notabile sopra varii viaggi per li quali sono state condotte fino a’ tempi nostri le spezierie e altri nuovi che se potriano usare per condurle” (1554)

Giovan Battista Ramusio, "“Discorso notabile sopra varii viaggi per li quali sono state condotte fino a’ tempi nostri le spezierie e altri nuovi che se potriano usare per condurle”, in Navigationi et viaggi, Venezia, ne la stamperia de' Giunti, I volume, seconda edizione, 1554, pp. 409-411 v., trascrizione html in Liberliber

File F. Guicciardini, Storia d’Italia, a cura di S. Seidel Menchi, Torino, Einaudi, 1971

Storia d’Italia, 1561, VI, 9

File Voltaire, Philosophie de l'histoire (1765)

Abbé Bazin [Voltaire], De la philosophie de l'histoire, Amsterdam, Changuion, 1765 (I ed. Genève, Cramer, 1765)

File Sebastian Conrad, Storia globale. Un'introduzione (Roma, Carocci, 2015)

Sebastian Conrad, Storia globale. Un'introduzione (Roma, Carocci, 2015), pp. 17-44

File M. Meriggi, "Storie mondiali dell’Ottocento" (2010)

Marco Meriggi, "Storie mondiali dell’Ottocento", in Contemporanea, XIII, 3, luglio 2010, pp. 591-597

File Jürgen Osterhammel, "Introduction" a The Transformation of the World. A Global History of the Nineteenth Century (2014)

Jürgen Osterhammel, "Introduction", The Transformation of the World. A Global History of the Nineteenth Century (Princeton: Princeton UNiversity Press, 2014)

File Writing Global History and Its Challenges—A Workshop with Jürgen Osterhammel and Geoffrey Parker

Martine Van Ittersum, Felicia Gottmann and Tristan Mostert, "Writing Global History and Its Challenges—A Workshop with Jürgen Osterhammel and Geoffrey Parker", Itinerario, Vol. 40, 2016, No. 3, 357–376.

File Jürgen Osterhammel, Storia della Cina moderna, Torino, Einaudi, 1989, capitoli scelti
File Jürgen Osterhammel, "Living Standards. Risk and Security in Material Life", chapt. 5 di The Transformation of the World (2014)

Jürgen Osterhammel, "Living Standards. Risk and Security in Material Life", chapt. 5 di The Transformation of the World (2014)

File Corrado Vivanti, "Alle origini dell'idea di civiltà.le scoperte geografiche e gli scritti di Henri de la Popelinière"

Corrado Vivanti, "Alle origini dell'idea di civiltà.le scoperte geografiche e gli scritti di Henri de la Popelinière", in Rivista storica italiana, vol. LXXIV, f. 2, giugno 1962, pp. 225-249

Sezione 2. Lezioni in powerpoint File Storia globale: concetti generali
File Lezione introduttiva: processi storici di globalizzazione
File Cartina: Catene montagnose centro-asiatiche
File Cartina: Sogdiana
File Cartina: Vie della seta
File Cartine: Cina
File Lezione 1 bis: "Dinamiche ed eco-scenari della globalizzazione eurasiatica"
File Lezione 2. "Gunpowder empires", imperi asiatici, Cina, Africa e Americhe tra Medioevo ed età moderna: introduzione e quadri generali
File Lezione 3. La Cina nella storia globale

Statistiche economiche dalla "grande divergenza" al presente

File Lezione 4: Storia globale: prospettive e testimonianze storiografiche
File "Innovazione tecnologica e industrializzazione come motori della globalizzazione tra '800 e '900"
File Esposizioni internazionali e universali e processi di globalizzazione
File Fattori di globalizzazione nel secondo '800 e all'inizio del '900
Sezione 4. Materiali di consultazione URL Gapminder: Wealth & Health of Nations

Gapminder is a non-profit venture promoting sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by increased use and understanding of statistics and other information about social, economic and environmental development at local, national and global levels.
We are a modern “museum” that helps making the world understandable, using the Internet. Gapminder was founded in Stockholm by Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund and Hans Rosling on February 25, 2005. Gapminder is registered as a Foundation at Stockholm County Administration Board (Länstyrelsen i Stockholm).

The initial activity was to continue development of the Trendalyzer software. This software unveils the beauty of statistical time series by converting boring numbers into enjoyable, animated and interactive graphics. The current version of Trendalyzer is available since March 2006 as Gapminder World, a web-service displaying time series of development statistics for all countries.

URL The Demic Atlas Project: A Non-State-Based Approach to Mapping Global Economic and Social Development (The Spatial History Project, Stanford University)

Authors: Anne Fredell, Jake Coolidge, Martin Lewis

The Demic Atlas project provides an alternative to the standard state-based system of mapping socio-economic data at the global scale. Whereas the independent countries that form the basic units of conventional maps vary in population by more than five orders of magnitude, the elemental units of the alternative scheme are defined at the same demographic scale, each containing roughly 100 million inhabitants. Such "demic regions," constructed from aggregations of smaller countries and divisions of larger ones, and are designed to group together areas of similar socio-economic standing. By employing such demographically comparable units, the Demic Atlas seeks to uncover patterns of spatial variation in global development that remains invisible on conventional maps.

The visualization presented allows the ready comparison of social and economic mapping within the state-based and demic frameworks. Three standard measurements of development are mapped: 1. nominal Gross Domestic Product (GDP), which measures the total value (in US $) of goods and services produced in a given year in a specific territory; 2. GDP in Purchasing Power Parity (PPP), which takes into account the fact that the same amount of money can purchase different quantities of goods and services in different parts of the world; and 3. the Human Development Index (HDI), a composite statistic that considers life expectancy, educational attainment, and economic production. Figures for nominal GDP and GDP in PPP are mapped in both aggregate and per capita terms

Sezione 5. Il "caso" Joseph Needham File Joseph Needham, Scienza e civiltà in Cina. Vol. I

Joseph Needham, Scienza e civiltà in Cina. Volume I. Lineamenti introduttivi, Torino, Einaudi, 1981 [ed. or. inglese, Cambridge, 1954]

URL Science and Civilization in China: an Outline (Wikipedia)
URL Joseph Needham: a Biographical Sketch (Wikipedia)
URL The Man who Loved China: An Evening with Simon Winchester, 2008

Simon Winchester's lecture on Joseph Needham at the City University of New York, October 7, 2008

File Joseph Needham’s Review of Oriental Despotism, "Science and Society", 1959
File Davies, Joseph Needham, BJHS, 1997
File Finlay, China, the West, and World History in Joseph Needham's "Science and Civilisation in China", JWH, 2000
File Yfu Lin, The Needham's Puzzle, 1995
Sezione 6. Da guardare URL Sebastian Conrad, interview on what is Global history (2016)
URL Martin Jacques, "Understanding the rise of China" (2010) (TED Talks)
URL Hans Rosling, "Asia's Rise. How and When" (TED Talks, 2009)
Folder China on Revolution, a documentary film on Ninteenth-century China

Contiene:

  1. China in Revolution, Part 1, "Battle for Survival (1911-1936)" (57' 48")  & "Fighting for the Future (1936-1949)" (durata totale: 1h 53' 37")
  2. China in Revolution, Part 2, "The Mao Years (1949-1976)": "Catch the Stars and the Moon (1949-1960)" (59')  & "It's Right to Rebel" (durata totale: 1h 54' 53")
  3. China in Revolution, Part 3, "Born under the Red Flag (1976-2011)": "Surviving Mao" (54' 20") & "Born under the Red Flag" (durata totale: 1h 51' 50")
URL Carma Hinton, "Morning Sun" (2003) (DVD available)

Folder The Opium Wars (1997)

"The Opium War is a 1997 Chinese historical epic film directed by Xie Jin. The winner of the 1997 Golden Rooster and 1998 Hundred Flowers Awards for Best Picture, the film was screened in several international film festivals, notably Cannes and Montreal. The film tells the story of the First Opium War of 1839-1842, which was fought between the Qing Empire of China and the British Empire, from the perspectives of key figures such as the Chinese viceroy Lin Zexu and the British naval diplomat Charles Elliot. Unlike many of its contemporaries, The Opium War was strongly supported by the state apparatus. Despite its clear political message, many Western commentators found the treatment of the historical events to be generally even-handed. At the time of its release, The Opium War, with a budget of US$15 million, was the most expensive film produced in China.It was released to coincide with the Hong Kong handover ceremony in July 1997" (URL: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Opium_War_%28film%29>)

See also Internet Movie Database: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120538/

Folder The Rise of the Great Powers

The Rise of the Great Powers is a 12-part Chinese documentary television series produced by CCTV. It was first broadcast on CCTV-2 from 13 to 24 November 2006.[1] It discusses the rise of nine great powers: Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Japan, Russia (Soviet Union), and the United States.

The documentary "endorses the idea that China should study the experiences of nations and empires it once condemned as aggressors bent on exploitation" and analyses the reasons why the nine nations rose to become great powers, from the Portuguese Empire to American hegemony.[1] The series was produced by an "elite team of Chinese historians" who also briefed the Politburo on the subject." In the West the airing of Rise of the Great Powers has been seen as a sign that China is becoming increasingly open to discussing its growing international power and influence—referred to by the Chinese government as "China's peaceful rise."

The state-run People's Daily reported that each of the 12 episodes of The Rise of the Great Powers ran at the prime time 9:30 p.m. slot, and each show lasted 50 minutes, totaling 600 minutes. The program included interviews with noted historians and academics, including Paul Kennedy, who wrote the influential book The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, and Joseph Stiglitz, who won a Nobel Prize in Economics. Political leaders, such as former French president Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir bin Mohamad, were also interviewed."[2]

It has been dubbed in English and shown on History Channel under the title "Rising of Great Powers".


Sezione 7. Risorse online URL La Chine ancienne (risorse sui classici cinesi in traduzione francese), UQAC, Université de Québec à Chicoutimi
URL La Bibliothèque numérique sur la Chine ancienne

Chine ancienne présente, en téléchargement gratuit (formats pdf et doc),  une bibliothèque d'ouvrages du domaine public sur la Chine impériale, sur son histoire, ses coutumes, ses religions, sa morale, ses grands hommes, son art, sa littérature.

URL Bibliotheca Sinica 2.0

Bibliotheca Sinica 2.0 explores Sino-Western encounters by ways of texts and images published before 1939 and is intended as an extension of the bibliography Western Books on China in Libraries in Vienna/Austria, 1477-1939.

Bibliotheca Sinica 2.0 aims to provide information on digitized books on China (published up to 1939) freely available in digital repositories (see: references) all over the world. By this means our project wants to facilitate further research on the various aspects of the history of Western perceptions and Sino-Western relations. To maintain this, references to some major bibliographies are provided.

URL The Rise and Fall of the Canton System (in 4 parti), MIT Visualizing Cultures
  1. The Rise and Fall of the Canton System. I. China in the World (1700-1860s) <http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/rise_fall_canton_01/cw_essay01.html>
  2. The Rise and Fall of the Canton System. II. Macau &  Whampoa anchorage <http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/rise_fall_canton_02/cw_essay01.html>
  3. The Rise and Fall of the Canton System. III. Canton & Hong Kong <http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/rise_fall_canton_03/cw_essay01.html>
  4. The Rise and Fall of the Canton System. IV. Image Galleries <http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/rise_fall_canton_04/index.html>
URL Fairbank Chinese History Virtual Library

The Fairbank Chinese History Virtual Library was founded to facilitate easy access to sources of
modern Chinese historical information on the internet. This project is dedicated to the memory of Harvard Sinologist John King Fairbank (1907-1991). Many thanks to Wilma Fairbank who gave her consent for this project to bear her husband's name.

Varia di storia globale File Jan de Vries, "The Limits of Globalization in the Early Modern World", in Economic History Review, Vol. 63, No. 3 (AUGUST 2010), pp. 710-733
File Giuseppe Marcocci, "L'Italia nella prima età globale", in Storica, 60, 2014
File da G. C. Gunn, First Globalization, "Introduction", "Conclusion", "Table of Contents",

Geoffrey C. Gunn, First Globalization. The Eurasian Exchange, 1500-1800 (New York-Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield Pubs., 2003)

File Embree, Ainslie Thomas, and Carol Gluck. Asia in Western and World History: A Guide for Teaching. M.E. Sharpe, 1997.

Embree, Ainslie Thomas, and  Carol Gluck. Asia in Western and World History: A Guide for Teaching. M.E. Sharpe, 1997.

File Parag Khanna, Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization (2016)

Parag Khanna, , Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization (New York: Random House, 2016)

File Jules Verne, Il giro del mondo in 80 giorni [1872], Roma, 1993


File F. Farinelli, "Il treno è no global", in L'Espresso, 25 marzo 2018
File Pier Paolo Portinaro, "Per la storia della globalizzazione. Il contributo di Jürgen Osterhammel", Archivio Storico Italiano, 2017

Pier Paolo Portinaro, "Per la storia della globalizzazione. Il contributo di Jürgen Osterhammel", in Archivio Storico Italiano, a. CLXXV, dispensa n. 2, 2017, pp. 361-382