British Civilisation and Literature: 19th and 20th centuries
Survey British literature of the 19th and 20th centuries, from Romanticism and realism to modernism, war writing, empire, and social change.
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Westward Expansion: America’s Road to the Pacific
Explore American westward expansion, from the Louisiana Purchase and Oregon Trail to the Mexican War, railroads and Indigenous dispossession.
USA: Birth of a Nation — From Independence to the Constitution
How independence, war, the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution transformed thirteen colonies into the United States.
The Glorious Revolution of 1688: Causes and Legacy
Explore the Dutch invasion of 1688, James II’s fall, the Bill of Rights, Scotland’s Claim of Right and the Williamite War in Ireland.
The Affluent Society : poverty rediscovered?
Post-war Britain is characterised by Butskellism, a hybrid word formed from the Conservative (Butler) and Labour (Gaitskell) Chancellors of the Exchequer.