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HISTORY
OF ENGLAND
History 211: Topic 11
Economic, Social, and Intellectual Transformation
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History 211 First Page I
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Identification
Items
While reading Chapters
18-19 of your
textbook, watch for
the following items. When you find the item in Chapters 18-19, identify
the object or person.
Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Thomas Malthus, Causes of the Industrial
Revolution, John Wesley, Methodist Church, Latitudinarianism,
Nonconformists, William Wilberforce, The Oxford Movement, John Henry
Newman, Joseph Mallard William Turner, William Blake, Sir Walter
Scott, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, William Wordsworth,
Sir Walter Scott, Robert
Owen, Jeremy Bentham, utilitarianism, James Mill, John Stuart Mill, Sir
Humphrey Davy Public Record Office, Edmund Burke |
Topics for Study
The following essay
questions should be guides for your reading of Chapters 18-19 The
following essay questions will be included on the Second Exam. You
will write two essays on the second exam. You will choose your
exam essays.
1. Examine the causes
of the industrial transformation of England. Discuss the improved
economic infrastructure of England, urbanization, agricultural
improvements, and the evolution of the putting-out system
2.
Discuss the social effects of industrialization. Consider in your
essay the removal of the workplace from the home, the concentration of
the working poor in distinct urban districts, pollution, disease, and
life expectancy, the emptying of the countryside and the formation of
the working class.
3.
Discuss the ideology of economic liberalism. Cover Smith, Ricardo,
Malthus, and Bentham.
4.
The industrial transformation began and was most intense in England in
the first half of the nineteenth century. Discuss the reasons for
England's advantage. |
| Reading
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| Clayton Roberts,
David Roberts, Douglas R. Bisson, Chapter
18-19 |
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