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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
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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