Syllabus

Rev. 30 September 2003

  1. Evolution of Parliament
  2. Socioeconomic overview from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century
  3. Ireland: religion, race, and politics
  4. Religion and politics under the Tudor and early Stuart monarchs
    1. Religious background: Wycliffe and the Lollards
    2. Breaking with Rome
    3. Protestant aspirations for further reform
    4. A threat to the Calvinist consensus: Arminianism
    5. Outbreak of Civil War
  5. War with Spain
  6. Scientific Revolution
  7. Politics and political thought in Restoration and post-Revolution Britain
  8. Colonial America
    1. Racism(s)
    2. Born bourgeois?
    3. The political, social, and cultural evolution of the British colonies along the North Atlantic seaboard
    4. Imperial challenges and colonial response