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131-212/312 The Birth of Industrial Society: Class and Conflict in Britain, 1780-1850

Availability: Not offered in 1996.

Credit points: 16.7 2nd and 3rd years

Coordinator: Associate Professor D Philips.

Prerequisite: Normally, 25 points of first-year History.

Contact: Two 1-hour lectures and a tutorial a week.

Objectives:

On completion of this subject students should: show some knowledge of the process of industrialisation and the main social changes it brought to the British population in the period 1780-1850; understand the concept of 'social class', and the development, in this period, of a self-conscious middle class and working class; understand the nature of the British state in this period, of the challenges (constitutional and unconstitutional) to its authority, and of the degree of political reform enacted; understand how the role and status of women were affected by the social changes of the period; understand the genesis and application of such important modern ideologies as classical economics, Benthamite utilitarianism, evangelicalism, radicalism, liberalism and Owenite socialism to the problems of this period; understand something of the relationship of the British state to the population of its dependency Ireland, in this period.

Content:

A history of the social, political and economic impact of the Industrial Revolution on the people of Britain, 1780-1850.

Assessment:

One research essay of 3,000 words (50%), one final reflective essay of 2,000 words (40%), tutorial participation (10%).

Prescribed texts:

1. History, Faculty of Arts (v3, p99) : Next:131-214 | Prev:131-211


2. History, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p125) : Next:131-214 | Prev:131-211

131-212/312 The Birth of Industrial Society: Class and Conflict in Britain, 1780-1850

Availability: Not offered in 1996.

Credit points: 16.7

Coordinator: Associate Professor D Philips.

Contact: Two 1-hour lectures and a tutorial each week.

Objectives:

On completion of this subject students should: show some knowledge of the process of industrialisation and the main social changes it brought to the British population in the period 1780-1850; understand the concept of 'social class', and the development, in this period, of a self-conscious middle class and working class; understand the nature of the British state in this period, of the challenges (constitutional and unconstitutional) to its authority, and of the degree of political reform enacted; understand how the role and status of women were affected by the social changes of the period; understand the genesis and application of such important modern ideologies as classical economics, Benthamite utilitarianism, evangelicalism, radicalism, liberalism and Owenite socialism to the problems of this period; understand something of the relationship of the British state to the population of its dependency Ireland, in this period.

Content:

A history of the social, political and economic impact of the Industrial Revolution on the people of Britain, 1780-1850.

Assessment:

One research essay of 3,000 words (50 per cent); one final reflective essay of 2,000 words (40 per cent); tutorial participation (10 per cent).

Prescribed texts:

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2. History, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p125) : Next:131-214 | Prev:131-211


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