HSY2950

Europe in the age of enlightenment and revolution c.1680-1850

David Garrioch

8 points
* One 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour seminar per week
* First semester
* Clayton

Objectives Students successfully completing this subject should have gained a knowledge of the political and social systems and ideologies of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Europe; and a familiarity with the principal historiographical debates relevant to Europe during this period, in particular debates about class, the state, secularisation, industrialisation, and their consequences for society.

Synopsis This subject will begin with an overview of the period, examining the political and social structures of Europe, emphasising urban/rural differences, the culture of the eighteenth-century Republic of Letters, and the beginning of European world dominance. It will then look at ideas about identity and at social and intellectual conflict and change up to the early nineteenth century. Students will choose from a range of themes, such as religion, science, medicine, literature, technology, and education, gender, social reform, disease and society, class formation, urbanisation, industrialisation for their own particular research.

Assessment Bibliography exercise (300 words): 5%
* A tutorial paper (1500 words): 25%
* A workshop presentation (10 minutes): 25%
* Workshop journal (2000 words): 20%
* Examination (1.25 hours): 25%

Preliminary reading

Hampson N The first European revolution Thames and Hudson, 1969
Hobsbawm E The age of revolution various editions
Hufton O Privilege and protest Fontana, 1980
Hufton O The prospect before her Harper Collins, 1996
Schama S Landscape and memory Harper Collins 1995
Thompson E P Customs in common Merlin, 1991