Over the course of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Britain transformed the world. Beginning with the Glorious Revolution of 1688 that assured Protestant Ascendancy, this period saw the rise of Britain from a relatively weak position on the margins of Europe to the centre of the largest and most influential empire in the modern world. This unit will consider how the British World functioned as a globalising carrier of modernity in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It will analyse the theme of 'freedom versus slavery' as a key to 'Britishness'; of changing ideas of political success during the transfer to a capitalist economy; of the increasing complexity of race, gender,... -- Course Website
Instructor: Dr Kate Fullagar
Prerequisites: 12cp or (3cp in HIST or MHIS or POL units)