The course presents a methodological introduction of studies on identities and cultures from West to East, with general references to the civilizations in the Modern and Contemporary Age, and the articulation of cultural history throughout the outlook of national and religious minorities of the Euro-Asian worl until the present day, particularly during their evolution within the 19th and 20th centuries and their relationships of States and the international phenomenology of nationalisms and identities.

Targets
Knowledge and tools' analisys of "longue durée" on the present international context.

Evaluation
Oral exam. It is carried out through a cycle of lessons and of seminars with laboratory in the classroom.

Books
Handbook: 
B. Simms, "Europe: the struggle for supremacy, from 1453 to the present", Basic Books, New York 2013
Reading: 
A.D. Smith, "The Nation in the History. Historiographical debates about ethnicity and nationalism", Polity press, Cambridge 2000