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Schedule

Date	Heyck reading	Topic
Jan 6	Part I, The Age of Landed Oligarchy	Course introduction
Jan 8*		"British History" [map] Reading: 1) Heyck, I, Preface and Ch 1 2) Hugh Kearney, The British Isles: A History of Four Nations, Introduction [ARES]
Jan 8*		Cultural artifacts of 18th-century Britain Identify a piece of art, architecture, literature, or music created in the British Isles during the eighteenth century. Write a 1-page description/analysis of the artifact, and be prepared to describe your it to the class (if it is a work of art or architecture, please provide a printed image and a URL so that we can view the artifact in class. If it is a piece of literature, see if you can find a facsimile of the original title page -- check the ECCO database [see Jan 20 below]). See Heyck, Ch 5, for leads.
Jan 13		The "age of stability"?
Jan 15*		"The rights of free-born Englishmen" Reading: 1) John Locke, "Of Property" (1690) [full text of the Second Treatise of Civil Government available at Oregon State; see also entry on Locke in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy] 2) Walvin, Making the Black Atlantic: Britain and the African Diaspora, 1-127 Time line I due Friday Jan 16 (please slide it under my door or send an electronic version by Friday and bring a hard copy to class on Tues)
Jan 20		The making of Great Britain and a British Empire Reading: 1) Act of Union (1707) 2) the penal laws [note: read only section I of the linked documents] Primary source hunt Log onto Eighteen Century Collections Online (ECCO) via the Database section of the library homepage (Note A: you will need to establish a connection through the VPN if you are connecting from off campus). Find a document that discusses Ireland and/or Scotland at length. Provide complete citation information and a one-paragraph description. (Note B: some of these texts are very long. You do not need to read the entire text to complete this assignment.)
Jan 22*	Part II, The Age of Revolutions	The wealth of the nation Reading: 1) James Grant to the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations, 1764 [html version] 2) The Quebec Act, 1774
Jan 27		Radicalism, nationalism, and the American crisis Reading: T. H. Breen, "Ideology and nationalism on the eve of the American Revolution," Journal of American History 84, 1 (1997): 13-39 [ARES] Time line II due
Jan 29*		Revolution and response Reading:"The Impact of the French Revolution upon England: Threat or Promise?" (Burke, Paine, Wollstonecraft, and More) [ARES]
Jan 29*		The making of the United Kingdom Act of Union
Feb 3		Revolutions of spirit and conscience Paper I due grading rubric
Feb 5*	Part III, The Rise of Victorian Society	Abolition Reading: 1) Walvin, Making the Black Atlantic: Britain and the African Diaspora, 128-70 2) Charlotte Sussman, "Women and the Politics of Sugar, 1792" [ARES]
Feb 5*	Part III, The Rise of Victorian Society	The most powerful nation on earth
Feb 10		Class society, class conflict Time line III due
Feb 12*		Empire in India Reading: Thomas B. Macaulay, "Minute of 2 February 1835 on Indian Education" Lord William Bentinck on the Suppression of Sati, 8 November 1829 J. S. Mill, "On Colonies and Colonization" (1848) optional Mill reading: "Under what Social Conditions Repesentative Government is Inapplicable" (1861)
Feb 12*		The "age of improvement"?
Feb 17		Liberalism's darkest hour: the Great Famine The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations: find an image of the Crystal Palace and describe one exhibit
Feb 19*		Victorians and Victorianism Reading: Dea Birkett, "Mary Kingsley and West Africa" in Gordon Marsden, ed., Victorian Values: Personalities and Perspectives in Nineteenth-century Society (London: Longman, 1990), 171-186. [ARES]
Feb 24	Part I, The Decline of Victorian Britain	Gladstone, Disraeli, and high Victorian politics
Feb 26*		Crisis in the Raj
Feb 26*		Reading: Catherine Hall, "Imperial man" [ARES]
Mar 3		The new imperialism Reading: Kipling, "Recessional" ; "White Man's Burden" ; "If" Time line IV due
Mar 5*		The Irish question Reading: Home Rule documents 19th-c caricatures of the Irish for background, see Ward, The Easter Rising, Chapter 4
Mar 10		Spring break
Mar 12		Spring break
Mar 17		Socialism, unionism, and the Labour Party
Mar 19*		Edwardian crises
Mar 19*		The suffragettes' campaign Reading: Pankhurst, Militant suffragism and My Own Story Short assignment: write a one-page, double-spaced biography of any British suffragist or suffragette except Emmeline Pankhurst and Emily Davison.
Mar 24	Part II, An Age of Total War	The Great War
Mar 26*		Decolonization: the case of Ireland Reading: Ward, The Easter Rising
Mar 31		Interwar Britain Time line V due
Apr 2*		Reading: Orwell 1) The Road to Wigan Pier [get a sense of the book as a whole and read Chapter 4] 2) Shooting an Elephant
Apr 2*		World War II and the special relationship
Apr 7	Part III, Britain in the Postwar World	Orwell discussion; WWII and the turn to socialism Final draft of paper 2 due
Apr 9*		A new role in the world
Apr 9*		Discussion: decolonization (India) -Tilak, Address to the INC (1907) -Gandhi, Indian Home Rule (1909) -Sir Stafford Cripps Statement on India (Aug 5, 1942) -Gandhi's Speech to the All-India Congress (Aug 7, 1942) -British Government Statement, Policy in India (1946)
Apr 14		Contemporary Britain
Apr 16*		tba
Apr 21		Discussion: Levy, Small Island Time line VI OR Levy reaction paper (2-3 pages) due

May 1		Exit essay due

Participation (25%)	Effective class participation entails sharing your impressions of the reading, exploring authors' arguments, offering critiques, and engaging in discussions and debates with other students. If you are hestitant to contribute to class discussion, please inform the instructor at the beginning of the semester.
Time lines (10%)	For each unit of The Peoples of the British Isles, you will create a time line of key events. The time line will be one page (single space is acceptable). Please include the primary sources we are reading for that unit. On the back of the time line, provide brief biographical sketches of 4-5 individuals discussed in the unit.
Short assignments (15%)	See descriptions in schedule.
Papers (2) (15% each)	See guidelines.
Exit essay (20%)	Write a proposal for a modern British history textbook. See guidelines.