MONASH UNIVERSITY FACULTY HANDBOOKS

Arts Undergraduate Handbook 1996

Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996

HSY2090

Britain in the age of revolutions

Margaret Hamersley

Synopsis This subject is concerned with British society, institutions and cultural and intellectual life in the age of European revolutions. This was a period of high political tension and severe social and economic dislocation in both Britain and Ireland. The focus of the subject will be on the special features of British society which made the transition from a traditional to a modern society possible without political revolution.

Assessment Written (5000 words) + Examination (1 hour) + Class participation/attendance

Prescribed texts

• Evans E J The forging of the modern state: Early industrial Britain, 1783-1879 Longman, 1983
• or
• Webb R K Modern England from the eighteenth century to the present Allen and Unwin, 1969

Recommended texts

• Porter R English society in the eighteenth century Pelican, 1982