Topic: Victorian Britian

TimeDaysLocationInstructorGERCreditOPUS Class NumberSyllabus (Tentative)
11:45am-12:35pm
MWF
Math & Science Center - N304
Patrick Allitt. HSC. 41045 TBA.

January 13, 2010- April 26, 2010

Catalog Description: An introductory course on the nature and methods of history. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.

Semester Details:

Content:    During the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901) Britain became the world’s first industrial superpower and built an empire that stretched around the world.  The course will explain Britain’s commercial, industrial, and military dominance.  We will also investigate social inequalities, the artistic and literary protest against them, and such intellectual giants of the era as John Stuart Mill, Charles Darwin, and George Eliot.

 

Required Texts: John Stuart Mill, Autobiography; Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford; Friedrich Engels, The Condition of the English Working Class; Bertrand Russell, Autobiography, Volume I; Edmund Gosse, Father and Son; Anthony Trollope, The Warden; Lytton Strachey, Eminent Victorians; L. T. C. Rolt, Victorian Engineering; George Eliot, Felix Holt

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