Class Schedule
Week 2 (January 27-February
2)
Monday,
January 28
Topic of Discussion:
Creating Britain
Readings:
The Act of Union with
Scotland (1707)
Willcox and Arnstein,
pp. 34-38, 40-45
Wednesday,
January 30
Topic of Discussion:
British Society in
the Eighteenth Century
Readings:
Gregory King, "Natural
and Political Observations " (1696)
Excerpts from Lord
Chesterfield's Letters to His Son (1751-1752)
Daniel Defoe on the
Wealthy Trading Class (1726)
David Davies, "The
Case of Laborers in Husbandry" (1795)
Willcox and Arnstein,
pp. 49-78
Friday,
February 1
Topic of Discussion:
British Politics and
the Rise of the Fiscal-Bureaucratic State in the Eighteenth Century
Reading:
Willcox and Arnstein,
pp. 21-24, 38-40, 79-101, 106-107
Food
for Thought for Week 2
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by Hugh Dubrulle, 2002
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