HIB047nI A History of Modern Britain I

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2019
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
PhDr. Vladimír Černý, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
PhDr. Vladimír Černý, Ph.D.
Department of History – Faculty of Arts
Supplier department: Department of History – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Tue 16:00–17:40 K33
Prerequisites (in Czech)
! HIB0505I A History of Modern Britain I
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Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 20 student(s).
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Course objectives
The two-semester course will focus on the development of Great Britain and its colonial empire in the 19th and 20th centuries. The first part focuses on the period from the Napoleonic wars to the outbreak of the First World War.
Learning outcomes
During the course, students will gain the ability to analyze main political, military, social and economical processes that affected the changes of the United Kingdom and its colonial empire. Students will also gain the opportunity to practise working with foreign literature and to improve their presentation skills during the preparation and presentation of their paper.
Syllabus
  • 1. British historiography in the 19th and 20th centuries; key authors and their works.
  • 2. A brief summary of the history of the British Isles by the end of the 18th century.
  • 3. Napoleonic wars; the role of the army and the navy.
  • 4. Postwar period and Reform Act of 1832.
  • 5. The first phase of the Victorian era; British society and culture.
  • 6. Radicals and Chartists; social clashes and attempts to reform from the 1830s to 1850s.
  • 7. The Great Irish Famine and its social, economic and political consequences.
  • 8. The expansion of empire and the imperial economy; queen Victoria's proclamation as Empress of India (1876).
  • 9. Political parties in the second half of the 19th century; Gladstone and Disraeli.
  • 10. Electoral reforms of 1867 and 1884; the position of a woman in a Victorian society.
  • 11. Empire at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries; the Boer war.
  • 12. Britain and its power rivals; the Entente Cordiale.
  • 13. The Edvardian era; Britain before the First World War.
Literature
    required literature
  • WILLIAMS, Chris (ed.): A Compaion to Nineteenth-Century Britain. Malden – Oxford 2004.
  • British history 1815-1914. Edited by Norman McCord - A. W. Purdue. 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007, xiv, 595 p. ISBN 0199261644. info
  • FERGUSON, Niall. Britské impérium : cesta k modernímu světu. Translated by Rudolf Chalupský. V českém jazyce vydání p. Praha: Prostor, 2007, 422 stran. ISBN 9788072601752. info
    recommended literature
  • GOODLAD, Graham D.: British Foreign and Imperial Policy, 1865-1919. London and New York 2000.
  • SEAMAN, L. C. B.: Victorian England. Aspects of English and Imperial History 1837-1901. London 2003.
  • MATTHEWS, R. C. O. – Feinstein, C. H. – Odling-Smee, J. C.: British Economic Growth 1856-1973. Oxford 1982.
  • BENTLEY, Michael: Modernizing England’s Past. English Historiography in the Age of Modernism, 1870-1970. Cambridge 2005.
  • Modern Britaina social history, 1750-2011. Edited by Edward Royle - J. A. Sharpe. 3rd ed. London: Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Pub., 2012, xx, 556 p. ISBN 9781849665704. info
  • Britain as a military power, 1688-1815. Edited by Jeremy Black. London: UCL Press, 1999, viii, 332. ISBN 185728772X. info
  • Parliamentary reform, 1785-1928. Edited by Sean Lang. New York: Routledge, 1999, 198 p. ;. ISBN 0415183995. info
Teaching methods
The course is carried out in form of seminars. Regular attendance is required. In the framework of seminar sessions, students will also have to work with related archive materials and discuss their essays.
Assessment methods
The classification will evaluate attendance which will be proved by signatures on the attendance lists. The students will also have to write an seminar essay on one of the set topics. The final exam will be in the form of a written test examining the student's elementary knowledge of the subject.
Language of instruction
Czech
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