Victorian Britain
Offered By: The Great Courses Plus
Course Description
Overview
Examine the strengths and foibles of Victorian Britain with an award-winning professor.
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 01: The Victorian Paradox
- 02: Victoria's Early Reign-1837-61
- 03: The Industrial Revolution-1750-1830
- 04: Railways and Steamships
- 05: Parliamentary Reform and Chartism
- 06: The Upper and Middle Class Woman
- 07: The Working-Class Woman
- 08: The State Church and Evangelical Revival
- 09: The Oxford Movement and Catholicism
- 10: Work and Working-Class Life
- 11: Poverty and the "Hungry Forties"
- 12: Ireland, Famine, and Robert Peel
- 13: Scotland and Wales
- 14: Progress and Optimism
- 15: China and the Opium War
- 16: The Crimean War-1854-1856
- 17: The Indian Mutiny-1857
- 18: Victorian Britain and the American Civil War
- 19: The British in Africa-1840-1880
- 20: Victorian Literature I
- 21: Art and Music
- 22: Science
- 23: Medicine and Public Health
- 24: Architecture
- 25: Education
- 26: Trade Unions and the Labour Party
- 27: Crime and Punishment
- 28: Gladstone and Disraeli-1865-1881
- 29: Ireland and Home Rule
- 30: Democracy and Its Discontents
- 31: The British in Africa-1880-1901
- 32: Later Victorian Literature
- 33: Leisure
- 34: Domestic Servants
- 35: Victoria After Albert-1861-1901
- 36: The Victorian Legacy
Taught by
Patrick N. Allitt
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