Description This course examines the major themes of modern British history: American and French Revolutions, political reform, industrial society, imperial ideology, “The Woman Question,” the impact of two world wars, and the decline of Britain’s international pre-eminence. Throughout the course attention is paid to ideas of “Englishness” and their impact on the formation of the modern English national identity, with emphasis on the multi-cultural make-up of British society in the modern period.
Note Open to graduate students. Graduate students are required to do additional work of a research nature.