We will be particularly concerned with establishing the political context of state development and with identifying the main features of state-building in these countries during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This is a four hour contact course in which you are expected to spend three hours a week in seminar and one hour in individual meetings with the instructor. To this end you will have to select one of the themes outlined in the weekly seminar schedule. Drawing from the list of bibliographical sources that I have provided, you should write up a brief assessment of the literature covering that topic. All other topics must be approved by the instructor.
Papers are due one week before the end of classes.
Christopher Duggan, A Concise History of Italy , Cambridge, 1994. Roger Griffin, Fascism , Oxford, 1995. Italian Regionalism , Edited by Carl Levy, Oxford, 1996. Nationalism and Nation in the Iberian Peninsula , Edited by Clare Mar-Molinero and Angel Smith, Oxford, 1996. Liberalism in crisis.