TRENT UNIVERSITY, ACADEMIC YEAR 2010-2011
HISTORY 3340: Italy, Portugal and Spain since 1800
Course instructor: Antonio Cazorla (acazorla@trentu.ca).
Office: LEC 101.8 (just across the Department’s washroom)
Phone: 7481011 ext. 7095
Classes: Lectures: Fridays 14-16.50 pm (2-hour lecture followed by a 1-hour workshop)
Office hours: Thursdays 2-3.45 pm and Fridays 11-11.45, am, or by appointment.
Administrative Assistant: Patricia Heffernan (LEC 101.3; ph. 748-1011, ext. 7706).
There is no single textbook that covers the material we will be examining this year. If you
would like to have a “text” type book, you can consult the following: Roger Absalom,
Italy since 1800, David Birmingham, A Concise History of Portugal and Adrian Shubert,
A Social History of Modern Spain. ALL ARTICLES FOR THIS COURSE CAN BE
OBTAINED BY USING…
JSTOR.
Important: In addition to the articles, students must read the following three novels:
Eça de Queiroz, The Maias
Alberto Moravia, The Conformist
Juan Goytisolo, Marks of Identity
The final grade for the course will be composed of the following elements:
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First paper (due October 15), 6-7 pages, 10% of final mark. Question: Make an
overall assessment of the impact of the Napoleonic wars in Italy, Spain and
Portugal? What did they change and did they not change?
Second paper (due November 19), 8-10 pages, 15% of final mark. Question:
Explain which political parties dominated public life in the second half of
Nineteen Century in all three countries? Explain what their policies were and the
groups and interests they represented
7 movies for 7 books (due April 8), 20%, aprox. 25 pages. For more details,
please, see notes below.
Tutorial participation, 20%. At the end of each tutorial you have to hand in
your notes (a copy of them) of that week’s readings. If you do not come to
tutorials your mark is 0; if you come and you do not hand in your notes your mark
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is at best 50%. If you hand in your notes but you do not talk at all, your final mark
for tutorial participation cannot be better than BThree novels: 15% (5% for an approx. 4-5 pages abstract for each of the three
novels)
Final exam 20% (there is no mid-term)
Notes:
 All papers require to be backed by at least 5 refereed sources (books or articles).
 Sources and readings provided by me during the course can be used but they do
not count for the minimum five sources.
 Most sources can be obtained electronically; occasionally students will need to
use the inter-library loan system.
 Seven books (chapters and good articles are valid too) for seven movies (20%).
What is this? Very simple: find seven old movies (the older the better) on
Southern-European history topics or things that happened to Southern Europeans;
and find seven recent History books (but you can also select only a chapter from
the book) or scholarly articles that study similar events or problems. Make a
critique of the movie (shortcomings, manipulation, etc) and base that critique in
the book you read. Pair the movie with the reading (and produce three pages on
average for the pair), and make a final reflection (4-5 pages). The resulting
“paper” would have about 25 pages. In case you want to know why this
assignment, the answer is as simple as this: I want you to know more about classic
movies and how things have been presented in the past and how we see them
today. I expect hard-to-find, good and rare movies. Look for non-Hollywood
stuff! Also avoid cheesy material! This assignment is designed to increase
your knowledge, to make you more sophisticated, not for you to repeat all the
clichés that we all know. START ASAP!!! YOU WILL HAVE TO ORDER
MOVIES AND BOOKS FROM OTHER LIBRARIES!!!
Calendar
Sep 17. Introduction
Sep 24. Enlightenment and Liberal Revolution
Jorge M. Pedreira, “From Growth to Collapse: Portugal, Brazil, and the Breakdown of
the Old Colonial System (1760-1830)”
Ch. Esdaile, “War and Politics in Spain, 1808-1814”
Oct 1. Italian Unification
A.J. Reinerman, “The Failure of Popular Counter-Revolution in Risorgimento Italy: the
Case of the Centurians, 1831-1847”
P. Ginsborg, “Peasants and Revolutionaries in Venice and the Veneto, 1848”
Oct 8. Italian Unification
L. Riall, “Liberal Policy and the Control of Public Order in Western Sicily, 1860-1862”
J. Dickie, “A Word at War: the Italian Army and Brigandage, 1860-1870”
Oct 15. The Politics of Constitutionalism
No readings. First paper due (10%)
Oct 22. Economic Development
Joan R. Rosés, “Why Isn't the Whole of Spain Industrialized? New Economic Geography
and Early Industrialization, 1797-1910”
READING WEEK
Nov 5. Rural Society
Peter H. de Garmo, “Poverty and Peasants in the Rioja 1883-1910”
Caroline B. Brettell, “Kinship and Contract: Property Transmission and Family Relations
in Northwestern Portugal”
Nov 12. The Working Class and the Labor Movement
D. Bell, “Worker Culture and Worker Politics: the Experience of an Italian Town, 18801915”
P. Radcliff, “Elite Women Workers and Collective Action: the Cigarette Makers of
Gijón, 1890-1930”
Nov 19. Migration
David I. Kertzer and Dennis P. Hogan, “Household Organization and Migration in
Nineteenth-Century Italy”
Peter D'Agostino, “Craniums, Criminals, and the 'Cursed Race': Italian Anthropology in
American Racial Thought, 1861-1924”
Nov 26. Church, Religion and Society
W. Callahan, “The Spanish Parish Clergy, 1874-1930”
J. de la Cueva, “Inventing Catholic Identities in Twentieth-Century Spain: The Virgin
Bien-Aparecida, 1904-1910”
Dec 3. Empires and Regions
C. Schmidt-Nowara, “National Economy and Atlantic Slavery: Protectionism and
Resistance to Abolitionism in Spain and the Antilles, 1854-1874”
Dec 10. The Crisis of Liberal Politics, 1890-1914
Eca de Queiroz, The Maias (5%)
HOLIDAYS
Jan 14. The Impact of World War I: Portugal and Spain
Filipe Ribeiro de Meneses, “Too Serious a Matter to Be Left to the Generals? Parliament
and the Army in Wartime Portugal, 1914-18”
Francisco J. Romero Salvadó, “The Great War and the Crisis of Liberalism in Spain,
1916-1917”
Jan 21. The Impact of World War I: Italy
Luigi Tomassini and Catherine Frost, “Industrial Mobilization and the Labour Market in
Italy during the First World War”
Jan 28. The Destruction of Democracy: Italy
P. Corner, “The Road to Fascism: An Italian Sonderweg?”
E. Gentile, “Fascism as Political Religion”
Feb 4. The Destruction of Democracy: Portugal
A. Costa Pinto, “The Radical Right and the Military Dictatorship in Portugal: The
National May 28 League (1928-1933)”
Feb 11. The Destruction of Democracy: the Second Republic in Spain
Stanley G. Payne, “Political Violence during the Spanish Second Republic”
Aviva and Isaac Aviv, “The Madrid Working Class, the Spanish Socialist Party and the
Collapse of the Second Republic (1934-1936)”
Feb 18. The Spanish Civil War
Documentary: Spanish Earth.
READING WEEK
Mar 4. Movie: Land and Freedom.
Mar 11. Dictatorships: Italian Fascism
Discuss Alberto Moravia, The Conformist (5%)
Mar 18. Dictatorships: Salazar and the Estado Novo
Tom Gallagher, “Controlled Repression in Salazar's Portugal”
Eric N. Baklanoff, “The Political Economy of Portugal's Later "Estado Novo": A Critique
of the Stagnation Thesis”
Mar 25. Dictatorships: The Franco Regime
Discuss Juan Goytisolo, Marks of Identity (5%)
Apr 1. Southern Europe: Social and economic change
Vera Zamagni, “Southern Europe: From the Periphery to the Center?”
Apr 8. Course review.
7 movies for 7 books due.
USEFUL INFORMATION:
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Academic Integrity: Academic dishonesty, which includes plagiarism and cheating, is
an extremely serious academic offence and carries penalties varying from a 0 grade on an
assignment to expulsion from the University. Definitions, penalties, and procedures for
dealing with plagiarism and cheating are set out in Trent University’s Academic Integrity
Policy. You have a responsibility to educate yourself - unfamiliarity with the policy is not
an excuse. You are strongly encouraged to visit Trent’s Academic Integrity website to
learn more - www.trentu.ca/academicintegrity. In particular, students who submit essays
that are bought, borrowed or lifted from another source (such as the internet) and then
presented as original work will fail the course and face further disciplinary action.
Assignments must be prepared for this course alone. An essay prepared for or used in
another course will be failed. If you are drawing from sources used in assignments for
other courses, your tutor should be notified beforehand.
Papers: Always use at least 5 refereed sources, and always write them double-spaced,
and with footnotes (do not use citations internal to the text). Badly written pieces will
receive a bad mark. NEVER QUOTE ME OR ANOTHER LECTURER! If you have
writing problems, you should seek help. This university has resources to assist you, use
them! And remember, I am always glad to give you advice on how to write a paper.
Students are required to submit all research notes, outlines and rough drafts for their
essays, along with the finished version.
Deadlines: THIS IS A MAJOR PROBLEM. THIS IS UNIVERSITY. WE ARE
TRAINING YOU TO BE GOOD PROFESSIONALS. So deadlines exist to be respected.
If you have a problem before handling an assignment I want to know it before the due
day. The penalty for late submissions is half grade per day (so from B, for example, you
go down to a B-, then a C+, and so on until the very end)
Access to Instruction:
It is Trent University’s intent to create an inclusive learning environment. If a student has
a disability and/or health consideration and feels that he/she may need accommodations
to succeed in this course, the student should contact the Disability Services Office (BL
Suite 109, 748-1281, disabilityservices@trentu.ca) as soon as possible. The complete text
can be found under Access to Instruction in the Academic Calendar.