Allitt, Patrick N.. Great Courses Audio.

Great courses. History. Modern history.

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This series of 36 fascinating lectures is a chronological journey into the story of Victorian Britain, from the unexpected ascension to the throne of teenaged Princess Victoria in 1837 to her death in 1901 as the Boer War neared its end. Presented with all of Victoria's strengths and foibles left intact by an award-winning teacher and author, the lectures invite you to reflect on both the positive and negative aspects of her reign. You'll discover the lives of Victorian women; the situation facing working people and the rise of trade unionism; Victorian achievements in art, literature, architecture, and music; and what Leonard Woolf called "the seriousness of games," and of leisure-time activities as windows on Victorian life. You'll discuss the important role played by Christianity as a force for both principled adherence to tradition and principled pursuit of change; and the influence of science and the debates over its impact that animated the Victorians. And you'll learn what the Victorians believed about education; the questions raised by Britain's rule over its empire, the problems of poverty and crime; the discoveries of Victorian explorers in Africa; and much more in this remarkable rendering of a remarkable age. All Lectures: 1. The Victorian Paradox 2. Victoria's Early Reign - 1837-1861 3. The Industrial Revolution - 1750-1830 4. Railways and Steamships 5. Parliamentary Reform and Chartism 6. The Upper- and Middle-Class Woman 7. The Working-Class Woman 8. The State Church and Evangelical Revival 9. 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

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