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will provide a survey of the social, political and cultural histories of
Britain over the last 150 years. These histories will be used to address
the changing nature of citizenship within the transition from liberalism
to social democracy and its contemporary collapse or reformation. Attention
will also be paid to how this reformation of citizenship in Britain was
intricately related to the maintenance and dissolution of imperial rule
abroad. The lectures are as likely to discuss the politics of the postal
service, venereal disease, punk rock or the rise of therapy as they are
the impact of the World Wars, the election of governments, immigration laws,
or the foundation of the welfare state. The lectures will be organized thematically
within a sequence of three chronological periods: 1848-1914, liberalism
in question; 1914-1951, towards social democracy; 1951-1997, the return
of liberalism? There will be a number of web-resources and secondary reading
through set texts. Assessment will be by attendance (10%), mid-term (40%)
and a final examination (50%). Lectures: Tuesday and Thursday 9.30-11,20 Wheeler. Office hours: Tuesday 11-12, Wednesday 4-5, Dwinelle 2214. Mid-term: 12 March Final: 21 May, 8-11am Reader: Daniel Ussishkin - ussishki@socrates.berkeley.edu Required texts: Susan Kent, Gender and Power in Britain, 1640-1990 (1999)< Peter Clarke, Hope and Glory (1996) Online Resources: Encyclopaedia of British History: 1700-1930 BBC History On-Line Victoria Web |
| LECTURE SCHEDULE 22 January: Introduction 24 January: Death of a princess: Interpreting modern Britain A Nation Mourns 1848-1914 29 January: What was liberalism? Kent, Gender and Power, 155-178. Mill, Liberalism Evaluated Mill - On Colonies and Colonizations, 1848 Herbert Spencer on Progress, 1857 Hobhouse on Liberalism,1911 31 January: The triumph of liberalism? 1848/1857 Kent, Gender and Power, 202-228. The People's Charter Chartists at Kennington Common 1848 The Indian Mutiny 5 February: Liberalism and the meanings of free trade Clarke, Hope and Glory, 7-13. Cobden on the virtues of free trade Rev George Clayton, [Three] Sermons on the Great Exhibition. Contemporary Views of the Irish Famine 7 February: The Victorian liberal state and its subject Kent, Gender and Power, 179-201. Kay-Shuttleworth on the Condition of the Working Class Chadwick's Report on Sanitary Conditions, 1842 The Workhouse Engels on the Irish 12 February: Defining the liberal political nation Kent, Gender and Power, 179-201. Helen Taylor, The Claim of Englishwomen to the Suffrage Suffragette testimonies 14 February: The country and the city Joseph Arch on Rural Poverty Engels on the Great Towns and the Agricultural Proletariat Nightingale on Rural Hygiene Ebenezer Howard’s Garden City 19 February: The pleasures of the people Clarke, Hope and Glory, 45-53 The Development of Leisure 1700-1850 The Development of Leisure after 1850 Technology and Leisure after 1850 Theatre Posters and Playbills Melodrama and Magic Lanterns Life and Leisure in London 21 February: The social and its investigators Clarke, Hope and Glory, 40-45, 53-62. Mayhew London Labour and the London Poor (Preface and Wandering Tribes) Charles Booth On-line archive Dore - Whitechapel New Liberalism and the Social Question 26 February: Empire, immigration and national efficiency Clarke, Hope and Glory, 13-28, 62-69 Churchill on the Battle of Omdurman, 1898Ghandhi on Home Rule Kipling and the White Man’s Burden Hobson, Imperialism 1914-1951 28 February:
Introduction: a long summer?
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March: WW1 and the collapse of liberalism?Kent, Gender and Power, 262-286. Clarke, Hope and Glory, 77-85, 90-98 Massingham on Ireland's Easter Rising Video: The Long Summer 7 March: Rebuilding 'middle England' Kent, Gender and Power, 287-310. Homes Fit for Heroes Retreat from Empire Testimonies of early car owners Video: The Long Summer 12 March: Mid-term14 March: The new sciences of societyTown Planning Huxley, Brave New World, ch.1. F.W.Taylor and Scientific Management Video: The Electric Home 19 March: North
and south
21 March: A culture for democracy: the problem of leisure |
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