University of St Andrews

Key information

SCOTCAT credits : 30

ECTS credits : 15

Level : SCQF level 9

Semester: 2

Planned timetable: TBC

The Risorgimento novelist, Massimo D'Azeglio's maxim that having made Italy, it now remains to make the Italians has become something of a truism for historians of modern Italy. Certainly, a perception of the need to build a nation and a national identity preoccupied Italian political and cultural elites but this insistence on a nation-=building enterprise which sought to drag allegiance of 'Italians' from their local campanile towards Rome seems to privilege a view of the rise of the nation-state as leading inexorably (and positively) to the dismantling and waning of local identities and loyalties. Historians have more recently focused their attention upon the often ambivalent intersection between regional, national and imperial identities, conceiving the connections between them as both potentially conflictual and concordant. This module will introduce students to the complex nature of nationalism and nation-building in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Italy, asking students to think conceptually about the interplay of the local, the national and the colonial and about the processes of constructing individual, national and imperial identities.

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact:

Scheduled learning hours: 33

Guided independent study hours: 267

Assessment pattern

As used by St Andrews:

As defined by QAA
Written examinations : 60%
Practical examinations : 13%
Coursework: 27%

Personnel