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British History 1760-1914

Code Cours
1920-FLSH-LCE-EN-1011
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Language of instruction
French, English
This course occurs in the following program(s)
Training officer(s)
Jean Paul Rosaye
Period
S2

Présentation

Goal

Great Britain from the Industrial Revolution up to WWI( 1760-1914)


The course deals with the evolution of British civilisation of the mid XVIIIth up to the early
XXth century.Processes and events are studied in a chronological order. It gives the different stages of the Industrial Revolution and the shift from a rural society to an industrialised one.The Victorian Era and Victorianism are then studied as proofs of political, social and cultural transformations up to
the Great War.


Presentation

1- Introduction to the industrial society: an acceleration of history


2- Industrial Revolution, phase one


3- Industrial Revolution, Phase Two


4- The three major phases of the Victorian Period


5- Victorian Society


6- “Great transformation” of British Civilisation


Modalités

Forms of instruction

Face à Face : 18H00 semestrielles

9 séances de 2H00

Travail personnel indicatif : préparation de textes distribués

Evaluation

Ressources

Bibliography

Une BIBLIOGRAPHIE complète ainsi qu'un fascicule de textes sera remis à l'étudiant au début du semestre. En attendant, lire Christopher Harvie and H. C. G. Matthew Nineteenth-Century Britain: A Very Short Introduction,Oxford University Press, 2000.||