History 3415. Modern Britain: The Victorian Age
Schedule of Class Meetings
January 15
Great Britain: The Three Kingdoms
January 17
The British Constitution and the British Churches
Text ch. 1
January 22
Text ch. 2
January 24
Text ch. 5
January 29
Text ch. 3, 6
January 31
February 5
Hard Times and The Great Famine in Ireland
Text ch. 7, 8, 10, 11
February 7
Text ch. 4, 9
February 12
February 14
Charles Darwin and the Theory of Natural Selection
February 19
February 21
Text ch. 11
February 26
John Stuart Mill and the Theory of Democracy
February 28
William Gladstone and Liberalism
March 5
Benjamin Disraeli and the Tory Resurgence
Text ch. 15
March 7 Mid-Term Exam
March 12
March 14
Jude the Obscure I
Spring Break
March 26
March 28
Radicalism and Irish Home Rule
Text ch. 19
April 2
Jude the Obscure II
April 4
Home Rule and The Scramble for Africa
April 9
Text ch. 12, 14, 18
April 11
Text ch. 13
April 16
The Boer War and High Imperialism
Text ch. 16, 17
April 18
A Passage to India I
April 23
Text ch. 21, 22
April 25
A Passage to India II
April 30
Text ch.23-24
Paper on A Passage to India due (turn in graded copies of papers I and II)
May 2
The Strange Death of Liberal England
May 10
Final Exam, 3-5 pm, 51 SH