HIS 216 Erly Modrn Britain 1500-1815

An in-depth analysis of Britain from theProtestant to the Napoleanic wars. During this critical formative period in British history, England revised its political constitution over a century of civil war and revolution, subdued the British Isles, and carved out an overseas empire that ultimately came to encompassed one-third of the territorial globe and one-quarter of its peoples. We will interrogate the conquests, concepts, and contradictions that constituted Britain's rise to international preeminence. Fall (L03)