HISTORY OF ENGLAND
 History 211:  Topic 11
Economic, Social, and Intellectual Transformation

 

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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 Assignment
Clayton Roberts, David Roberts, Douglas R. Bisson,  Chapter 18-19
 

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