REQUIRED TEXT: Paul Kléber Monod, Imperial Island: A History of Britain and Its Empire, (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009).

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1 1 HIST BRITAIN IN THE LONG EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, Fall 2010, Tuesdays 6:30-9:20, WH262 Prof. Morris, WH265, , Office hours: Tues and Wed. 5:15-6:15. I will be available on other days by appointment. COURSE DESCRIPTION: An examination of the debates over the definition of social class; the legacies of the Protestant Reformation and the Stuart court; the so-called Glorious so-called Revolution of 1688; the nature of the constitutional monarchy and its relative powers; the workings of party politics; the impact of commerce, imperial aspirations, and the loss of the American colonies on economics, society, politics, and culture; and the multifarious objectives and actual gains of the movements for parliamentary, economic, and social reform. OBJECTIVES: Students should gain a solid working knowledge of British economic, political, and social institutions as well as major events and issues from the Restoration to the Great Reform Act, an appreciation of the rudiments of historical research and writing, and an understanding of the political biases underlying many historiographical debates. REQUIRED TEXT: Paul Kléber Monod, Imperial Island: A History of Britain and Its Empire, (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009). COURSE REQUIREMENTS: 8 1-page, single-spaced reports on 4 books and 4 journal articles or book chapters = 40% 2 in-class writing exercises (practice for comprehensive exams) = 20%. 1 historiographical essay and class presentation (instructions to be given in class) = 15% Attendance (more than one absence will affect your grade) and participation = 15% Book reports MUST fit on one side of one page and be single spaced. Give a FULL bibliographic citation (see Monod reference above; use Chicago Manual of Style) of your reading at the top of the page. Your first paragraph should explain the thesis and aims of the author. Subsequent paragraphs should address how the work is useful for understanding a particular issue raised in the Monod reading that week. You should write these reports with the intention of providing useful study guides for your classmates. Bring a sufficient number of copies of your reports to distribute to your classmates and the instructor. The instructor reserves the right to amend the syllabus as necessary. SPECIAL ACCOMMODATION REQUEST PROCEDURE: Any student with special circumstances covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act should register with the Office of Disability Accommodation (ODA), Suite 322, University Union Building, and also inform the instructor of the class. Reasonable adjustments will be made to accommodate the special needs of students with disabilities where such adjustments are necessary to provide equality of educational access. Students who have registered with the ODA should present the necessary paperwork to and discuss their needs with the instructor. CLASS SCHEDULE: WEEK 1: Introduction to course Overview of long eighteenth century and historical methodologies Students will select individual weekly readings for following weeks.

2 2 WEEK 2: The Lay of the Land. Read Monod, pp Tim Hitchcock, Down and Out in Eighteenth-Century London (2004). James Rosenheim, The Emergence of a Ruling Order: English Landed Society (1998). Margaret R. Hunt, The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender, and the Family in England (1996). Craig Muldrew, The Economy of Obligation: The Culture of Credit and Social Relations in Early Modern England (1998). Peter Earle, The Making of the English Middle Class: Business, Society and Family Life in London (1989). John Smail, The Origins of Middle-Class Culture: Halifax, Yorkshire (1994). John Cannon, Aristocratic Century: The Peerage of Eighteenth-Century England (1984). J. V. Beckett, The Aristocracy in England (1986). Douglas Hay and Nicholas Rogers, Eighteenth-Century English Society: Shuttles and Swords (1997). David Lemmings, Gentlemen and Barristers: The Inns of Court and the English Bar (1990). E. P. Thompson, Eighteenth-Century English Society: Class Struggle without Class? Social History 3/2 (1978): Lawrence Klein, Politeness for the Plebes: Consumption and Social Identity in Early Eighteenth-Century England in The Consumption of Culture, ed. Bermingham and Brewer (1995). Keith Wrightson, The Social Order of Early Modern England: Three Approaches in The World We Have Gained, ed. Bonfield, Smith, and Wrightson (1986). Julian Hoppitt, Attitudes to Credit in Britain, , Historical Journal 33 (1990): Susan E. Brown, A Just and Profitable Commerce : Moral Economy and the Middle Classes in Eighteenth-Century London, Journal of British Studies 32/4 (1993): P. J. Corfield, Class by Name and Number in Eighteenth-Century Britain, History 72 (1987): Hans Medick, Plebeian Culture in the Transition to Capitalism in Culture, Ideology, and Politics: Essays for Eric Hobsbawm, ed. Samuel and Jones (1982). Henry Horwitz, The Mess of the Middle Class Revisited: The Case of the Big Bourgeoisie of Augustan London, Continuity and Change 2/2 (1987): John Dwyer, Ethics of Economics: Bridging Adam Smith s Theory of Moral Sentiments and Wealth of Nations, Journal of British Studies 44/4 (2005):

3 3 WEEK 3: From Restoration to Revolution. Read Monod, pp Paul Seaward, The Cavalier Parliament and the Reconstruction of the Old Regime, (1989). Tim Harris, London Crowds in the Reign of Charles II: Propaganda and Politics from the Restoration until the Exclusion Crisis (1987). Harold Weber, Paper Bullets: Print and Kingship Under Charles II (1996). K. H. D. Haley, Politics in the Reign of Charles II (1985). J. R. Jones, Charles II: Royal Politician (1987). Ronald Hutton, The Restoration, (1985). J. R. Western, Monarchy and Revolution: The English State in the 1680s (1972). W. A. Speck, Reluctant Revolutionaries: Englishmen and the Revolution of 1688 (1988). Steve Pincus, 1688: The First Modern Revolution (2009), intro, chs. 1, 4, 6-10, 15. J. R. Jones, The Revolution of 1688 in England (1973). Melinda Zook, Radical Whigs and Conspiratorial Politics in Late Stuart England (1999). Steve Pincus, Coffee Politicians Does Create : Coffeehouses and Restoration Political Culture, Journal of Modern History 67 (Dec. 1995): Kevin Sharpe, So Hard a Text? Images of Charles I, , Historical Journal 43/2 (2000): Paul Hammond, The King's Two Bodies: Representations of Charles II in Culture, Politics and Society in Britain, ed. Black and Gregory (1991). John Childs, 1688, History 73 (1988): H. T. Dickinson, How Revolutionary was the 'Glorious Revolution' of 1688? British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 11 (1988): John Miller, Crown, Parliament, and People in Liberty Secured? Britain Before and After the 1688, ed. Jones (1992). Gary S. De Krey, Rethinking the Restoration: Dissenting Cases for Conscience, , Historical Journal 38/1 (1995): Tim Harris, The People, the Law, and the Constitution in Scotland and England: A Comparative Approach to the Revolution of 1688, Journal of British Studies 38/1 (1999): W. A. Speck, William and Mary? in The Revolution of , ed. Schwoerer (1992). Joyce Lee Malcolm, The Creation of True Antient and Indubitable Right: the English Bill of Rights and the Right to be Armed, Journal of British Studies 32/3 (1993):

4 4 WEEK 4: The Stuart Legacy. Read Monod, pp John Brewer, The Sinews of Power: War, Money and the English State (1989). Henry Horwitz, Parliament, Policy and Politics in the Reign of William III (1977). Stephen B. Baxter, William III (1966). Edward Gregg, Queen Anne (1980). Geoffrey Holmes, British Politics in the Age of Anne, revised edn. (1987). Robert Bucholz, The Augustan Court: Queen Anne and the Decline of Court Culture (1993). Francis Harris, A Passion for Government: The Life of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough (1991). Rachel Weil, Political Passions: Gender, the Family and Political Argument in England, (1999). Gary S. De Krey, A Fractured Society: The Politics of London in the First Age of Party, (1985). Geoffrey Holmes, The Trial of Doctor Sacheverell (1973). E. L. Ellis, William III and the Politicians in Britain after the Glorious Revolution, ed. Holmes (1969). H. T. Dickinson, The Eighteenth-Century Debate on the Sovereignty of Parliament, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society (1976): Gerald Straka, The Final Phase of Divine Right Theory in England, , English Historical Review 77 (Oct. 1962): R. O. Bucholz, Nothing but Ceremony : Queen Anne and the Limitations of Royal Ritual, Journal of British Studies 30 (1991): John R. Young, The Parliamentary Incorporating Union of 1707: Political Management, Anti-Unionism, and Foreign Polity in Eighteenth-Century Scotland: New Perspectives, ed. Devine and Young (1999). Geoffrey Holmes, The Sacheverell Riots: the Crowd and the Church in Early Eighteenth-Century London, Past and Present 72 (1976): Peter Lake and Steve Pincus, Rethinking the Public Sphere in Early Modern England, Journal of British Studies 45/2 (2006): Gary S. DeKrey, Political Radicalism in London After the Glorious Revolution, Journal of Modern History 55/4 (1983):

5 5 WEEK 5: Divided Loyalties. Read Monod, pp J. H. Plumb, The Growth of Political Stability in England (1967). Paul Monod, Jacobitism and the English People, (1989). Linda Colley, In Defiance of Oligarchy: The Tory Party (1982). David Szechi, Jacobitism and Tory Politics (1984). G. V. Bennett, The Tory Crisis in Church and State : The Career of Francis Atterbury Bishop of Oxford (1975). B. W. Hill, The Growth of Parliamentary Parties (1972). Frank McLynn, The Jacobites (1985). Hannah Smith, Georgian Monarchy: Politics and Culture (2006). W. A. Speck, Stability and Strife: England (1977), pp Clayton Roberts, Political Stability Reconsidered ; Stephen B. Baxter, A Comment on Clayton Roberts Perspective ; Norma Landau, Country Matters: the Growth of Political Stability a Quarter Century On, Albion 25 (1993): J. V. Beckett, Stability in Politics and Society, , in Britain in the First Age of Party , ed. Colin Jones (1987). Bob Harris, Hanover and the Public Sphere in The Hanoverian Dimension in British History, , ed. Simms and Riotte (2007). Linda Colley, Eighteenth-Century English Radicalism Before Wilkes, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society (1981): Clayton Roberts, Party and Patronage in Later Stuart England in Baxter, England s Rise to Greatness (1983), G. V. Bennett, English Jacobitism, ; Myth and Reality, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society (1982): Nicholas Rogers, Popular Protest in Early Hanoverian London, Past and Present 79 (1978): B. W. Hill, Executive Monarchy and the Challenge of Parties : Two Concepts of Government and Two Historiographical Interpretations, Historical Journal 13 (1970): F. J. McLynn, Issues and Motives in the Jacobite Rising of 1745, The Eighteenth Century 23 (1982):

6 6 WEEK 6: Corruption, Consumption, Luxury, and the Whig Party. Read Monod, pp Kathleen Wilson, The Sense of the People: Politics, Culture, and Imperialism in England, (1998). Nicholas Rogers, Whigs and Cities: Popular Politics in the Age of Walpole and Pitt (1989). Frank O Gorman, Voters, Patrons, and Parties: The Unreformed Electoral System in Hanoverian England (1989) M. M. Goldsmith, Private Vices, Public Benefits: Bernard Mandeville s Social and Political Thought (1985). H. T. Dickinson, Walpole and the Whig Supremacy (1973). H. T. Dickinson Bolingbroke (1970). Gerald Newman, The Rise of English Nationalism: A Cultural History (1987). Bertrand A. Goldgar, Walpole and the Wits: a Relation of Politics to Literatures (1976). Elizabeth Kowaleski-Wallace, Consuming Subjects: Women, Shopping, and Business in the Eighteenth Century (1997). Ingrid H. Tague, Women of Quality: Accepting and Contesting Ideals of Femininity in England, (2002). J. A. W. Gunn, Public Spirit to Public Opinion in Beyond Liberty and Property: The Process of Self-Recognition in Eighteenth-Century Political Thought (1983). Eveline Cruickshanks, The Political Management of Sir Robert Walpole, in Britain in the Age of Walpole, ed. Jeremy Black (1984). Thomas Horne, Politics in a Corrupt Society: William Arnall s Defense of Robert Walpole, Journal of the History of Ideas 41 (1980): Isaac Kramnick, Augustan Politics and English Historiography: the Debate on the English Past , History and Theory 6 (1967): W. A. Speck, Political Propaganda in Augustan England, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society (1972): Jonathan Oates, Sir Robert Walpole after his Fall from Power, , History 91/2 (2006): Simon Targett, Government and Ideology during the Age of Whig Supremacy: The Political Argument of Sir Robert Walpole s Newspaper Propagandists, Historical Journal 37/2 (1994): John A. Phillips, The Structure of Electoral Politics in Unreformed England, Journal of British Studies 19/1 (1979): WEEK 7: First in-class writing exercise. Questions and instructions will be given in class the week before.

7 7 WEEK 8: Identities: Commerce, Empire, Gender, and War. Read Monod, pp John Keay, The Honourable Company: A History of the East India Company (1993). Paul Langford, A Polite and Commercial People: England (1989). Marie Peters, Pitt and Popularity: The Patriot Ministry and London Opinion during the Seven Years War (1980). Richard Middleton, The Bells of Victory: The Pitt-Newcastle Ministry and the Conduct of the Seven Years War (1985). John Sainsbury, John Wilkes: The Lives of a Libertine (2006). Kathleen Wilson, An Island Race: Englishness, Empire, and Gender in the Eighteenth Century (2003). Paul Langford, Public Life and Propertied Englishmen (1991). P. J. Marshall, The Impeachment of Warren Hastings (1965). Elaine Chalus, Elite Women in English Political Life c (2005). Anna Clark, Edmund Burke and the Begums of Oude: Gender, Empire, and Public Opinion, in Scandal: The Sexual Politics of the British Constitution (2004). Dror Wahrman, National Society, Communal Culture: An Argument about the Recent Historiography of Eighteenth-Century Britain, Social History 17 (1992): T. H. Breen, Ideology and Nationalism on the Eve of the American Revolution: Revisions Once More in Need of Revising, Journal of American History 84/1 (June 1997): Nicholas Rogers, Caribbean Borderland: Empire, Ethnicity, and the Exotic on the Mosquito Coast, Eighteenth-Century Life 26/3 (2002): John Brewer, Commercialization and Politics in The Birth of a Consumer Society: The Commercialization of Eighteenth-Century England, ed. McKendrick, Brewer, and Plumb (1982). John Sainsbury, John Wilkes, Debt, and Patriotism, Journal of British Studies 34 (1994): Bob Harris, American Idols : Empire, War and the Middling Ranks in Mid-Eighteenth- Century Britain, Past and Present 150 (1996): Margaret Hunt, Racism, Imperialism, and the Traveller s Gaze in Eighteenth-Century England, Journal of British Studies 32/4 (1993): Sudipta Sen, Imperial Subjects on Trial: On the Legal Identity of Britons in Late Eighteenth-Century India, Journal of British Studies 45/3 (2006):

8 8 WEEK 9: Reform and Revolution. Read Monod, pp , E. P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class (1963), chs. 1-5, Albert Goodwin, The Friends of Liberty: the English Democratic Movement in the Age of the French Revolution (1979). Marianne Elliott, Partners in Revolution: the United Irishmen and France (1982), pp Robert Hole, Pulpit, Politics, and Public Order in England (1989). J. E. Cookson, The Friends of Peace: Anti-War Liberalism in England (1982). Judith S. Lewis, Sacred to Female Patriotism: Gender, Class, and Politics in Late Georgian Britain (2003). Michael Brock, The Great Reform Act (1973). J. R. Dinwiddy, From Luddism to the First Reform Bill (1986). H. T. Dickinson, The Eighteenth-Century Debate on the Glorious Revolution, History 61 (1976): Kathleen Wilson, Inventing Revolution: 1688 and Eighteenth-Century Debate on the Glorious Revolution, Journal of British Studies 28 (1989): T. M. Parssinen, Association, Convention, and Anti-Parliament in British Radical Politics , English Historical Review 88 (1973): Bill Rubenstein, The End of Old Corruption in Britain , Past and Present 101 (1983): David Nicholls, The English Middle Class and the Ideological Significance of Radicalism , Journal of British Studies 24 (1985): Mary Thale, London Debating Societies in the 1790s, Historical Journal 32 (1989): Iain McCalman, Ultra-Radicalism and Convivial Debating-Clubs in London , English Historical Review 102 (1987): E. I. Reitan, The Civil List in Eighteenth-Century British Politics: Parliamentary Supremacy Versus the Independence of the Crown, Historical Journal 9/3 (1966): WEEK 10: Continuity and Change in the Long 18 th Century. Read Monod, pp , We will discuss the Monod reading and review the major events and themes we have covered. Be prepared to present possible ideas for your historiographical essays. WEEKS 11-15: Instructions will be given in class for the research and writing of your 4-page single-spaced essays reviewing 3 to 6 sources and the schedule for their presentation. FINALS WEEK: Second in-class writing exercise. Questions and instructions will be given in an earlier class.