HST 587

This course covers a 127-year span during which Great Britain rose to become the modern world's first superpower and the most influential country of this era. Within a broadly chronological context we will examine the political, religious, economic, and social conditions of this time. Topics will include: union between England and Scotland, 18th-century society, the Georgian age, Empire, the Seven Years' War, the Enlightenment, George III, the Industrial Revolution, and the Napoleonic Wars.