07:20 PM to 10:00 PM R
Innovation Hall 336
Section Information for Spring 2016
This class looks at Britain’s “Long Nineteenth Century” from the perspective of social and cultural history. The chronology and topics will be familiar—late Eighteenth Century changing political landscapes and war; industrialization and urbanization; new class and gender identities; Victorianism and its discontents; imperialism; the emergence of mass society and fin de siècle anxieties, to name the most significant ones. For each topic, however, we will examine how Britons at the time and historians since understood the social and cultural changes of the period. For instance, how did changing economic relations transform not just the fortunes of the country and individuals, but the ways people viewed their lives and futures in the midst of change; or, not just how Britain came to dominate much of the globe, but how imperialism changed the way Britons presented themselves because they were part of a powerful Empire?
Readings will include documents and texts from the period alongside more recent historical works. Rather than presenting a seamless narrative the goal will be to enter the debates and perspectives animating both Britons in the past and scholars in the present. Assignments will require you to synthesize, analyze and interpret information through both short papers and a take-home midterm and final. This course fulfills the 1789-1914 requirement in European history.
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Credits: 3
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Students in a Non-Degree Undergraduate degree may not enroll.
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