HIST 466 - Modern Britain

3 credits

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.

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