School Of Humanities And LanguagesBritain 1500-1800: Before Botany BayWestern Sydney University Unit Code: 101407.1
Discipline: HISTORY
Student Contribution Band: 1
Level: 2
Credit Points: 10
Unit Enrolment Restrictions
Successful completion of 60 credit points at Level 1.
About this Unit
An analytic and topical survey of the social and political history of the British Isles from the Protestant Reformation to the colonization of Australia; the unit also offers an introduction to the study of Social History and 'history from below'. Content includes studies of English hegemony; kings and queens; nobles and gentry; commons and plebs; parliaments; regions and localities; landscape; media, communications and ideas; work, class and gender; migration and mobility; sexual mores; riot, rebellion and revolution; popular and elite culture; attitudes to death; crime and criminal law; religion; the state and constitution; public opinion and civil society; demographic and economic development; education and schooling; family and community; nationalism and the emergence of 'Great Britain'.
Specialisations
| KP1000.1 | Humanities | CONTINUING |
| M1009.1 | History, Politics and Philosophy | CONTINUING |