History of Britain and the British Empire, 1688-Present (enhanced syllabus)
Syllabus as pdf (brief version)
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from J. Black, An Illustrated History of Eighteenth-Century Britain, 1688-1793 (1996) |
Dr. Newton Key |
His 3110, Spring 2007, EIU, Coleman 2761, T, Th, 11:00 |
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History of Britain and the British Empire, 1688-Present (enhanced syllabus) Syllabus as pdf (brief version) |
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week 1. Restoration Settlements, 1660-1689
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week 2. Revolution Settlement, 1688-1715
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week 3. Making of the English Ruling Class, 1714-1760
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week 4. George III, Parliament, and America, 1760-1783
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week 5. Industrial Britain: The First Modern Society
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week 6. Industrial Revolution Redux
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week 7. Industrial Revolution Redux
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week 8. Britain and Europe in the Revolutionary Age,
1784-1815
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week 9. Parliamentary Reform and Reformers, 1815-1840s
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week 10. "Gladstoneandisraeli": Victorian Social Consensus, 1850s-1880s
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week 11. Victorian Empire
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week 12. Liberalism versus Socialism, 1890s-1914
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week 13. The Killing Front, 1914-1918
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week 14. The Long-Weekend and the Slump, 1919-1935; and Britain's War, 1935-1945
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week 15. Churchill, The People's Peace, and I'm all Right Jack, 1940s-1960s
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His 3110 provides a narrative of British history from the Revolution of William and Mary through the counter-revolution of Margaret Thatcher and beyond to the sunny vistas(?) of New Labour. It stresses the social, economic, and even religious bases of struggles about parliamentary democracy and imperial domination. It also provides a chance to understand the contemporary issues in Britain from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries by using primary documents. The course includes lectures and discussions.
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from
W.A. Maguire, ed., Kings in Conflict (Belfast, 1990).
from Black, An Illustrated History of Eighteenth-Century
Britain, 120 (© British Museum, Daniel Burgess's Presbyterian meeting-house
in Carey Street, London, is wrecked by the mob.)
from Black, An Illustrated
History of Eighteenth-Century Britain, 196 (© the National Trust
Photographic Library. Robert Clive returned from India with fame
and fortune as the victor of Plessey, 1757, and bought an estate
in Shropshire. Sat as MP for Shrewsbury. Election jugs were part
of the process of "treating" the constituents.)
from Black, An Illustrated History of Eighteenth-Century
Britain, 35 (Mid-18th century machines were still dependent on human
energy. Note the broadside song or poem of D. Defoe's Moll Flanders
hung upon the idle apprentice's loom.)
from
W. Glyn and J. Ramsden, Ruling Britainnia: A Political History of Britain,
1688-1988 (1990).
from C. and D. Roberts,
A History of England, 2, 1688 to the Present, 2nd ed. (1985),
520.
from Roberts, A History of
England, 2:463 (Spinning Demonstration in Crystal Palace, 1851)
from Roberts, A History of
England, 2:659 (England, Egypt and the Suez, 1875) 
"Work," Ford Madox Brown, c. 1863 
from Roberts, A History of England,2:703 (from Imperial War Museum)
from Roberts, A History of England,
2:788
