Tu-Th 10:15-12

Sept. 7

Introduction

www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rschwart/hist256/

www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rschwart/ind_rev/

Sept. 12

What is Nature? What is Beauty? Adam Smith versus Dorothy and William Wordsworth

Adam Smith, “Philosophic Calm” from “The Principles Which Lead and Direct Philosophical Enquiries, illustrated by the History of Astronomy,” ca. 1750; and “Of the Beauty Which the appearance of Utility Bestows upon all the Productions of Art, and of the Extensive Influence of this Species of Beauty,” from The Theory of Moral Sentiments, 1759, pp. 295-300, in Clayre, ed., Nature and Industrialization (CP)

D. Wordsworth, The Grasmere Journals: entries as follows:

a)1800—all for May and June 1; 3 September, 24 November

b)1801—10 December; 26 December;

c)1802—31 January; 15 April  through 30 April; 8 June

d)Plus three selections of your choice

W. Wordsworth, “Above Tintern Abbey,” from Lyrical Ballads, 1798, p. 41-44, in Clayre, ed., Nature and Industrialization (CP)  Listen to the reading of the poem at:

http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rschwart/hist256/wordsworth/tintern.htm (Real Player G2 must be installed on the computer)

Further Reading (optional)

McCracken, David. Wordsworth and the Lakes District: A Guide to the Poems and Their Place ( New York: Oxford University Press, 1984), “Grasmere” (CP)

Sept. 14

Industrialization: Progress or Degradation?

Andrew Ure, “The Blessings of the Factory System,” from The Philosophy of Manufactures, 1835, pp. 67-72, in Clayre (CP)

Alexis de Tocqueville, “Manchester,” from Journeys to England and Ireland, 1835, pp. 117-19, in Clayre (CP)

Winter, Secure from Rash Assault, Introduction, chaps. 1, 2, & Conclusion

Further Reading

Lawton, Richard, and Colin G. Pooley. Britain, 1740-1950: an Historical Geography (London, 1992), chaps. 1-3 (CP)

“What Made the Victorians So Proud,” “ ‘Past and Present,’ The Economist, 1851,” “Prince Albert on ‘Man’s Sacred Mission,’ Speech at the Guildhall, London, 1849” in E. Royston Pike, Golden Times, Human Documents of the Victorian Age (CP)

Sept. 19

Change and Continuity: Fields, Fens, Forests, and Uplands

Winter, Secure from Rash Assault, chaps. 3-5.  As you read, make notes of examples with specific geographic locations, which will study on maps in class.

Further Reading

 Lawton and Pooley. Britain, chaps. 5-7(CP)

Sept. 21

Lab 1 Introduction to ArcView

Mark Monmonier, Mapping It Out. Expository Cartography for the Humanities and Social Sciences, chap. 6 up to p. 173 (CP)

Sept. 26

Change and Continuity: Railways and Urbanization

Winter, Secure from Rash Assault, chaps. 6-9

“The Black Country” in Pike, Golden Times (CP)

“Thomas Wood, engineer” in John Burnett, ed., Useful Toil, Autobiographies of Working People (CP)

Food and Drink for London's Millions, Dr. Andrew Wynter, on

“The London Commissariat" in the Quarterly Review, 1854, in Pike, Golden Times (CP)

Further Reading

Lawton and Pooley. Britain, chaps. 10-11(CP)

“Birmingham, City of a Thousand Trades,” and “Social Conditions of the “Lancashire Factory People,” from W. A. Abram, “Social

Condition and Political Prospects of the Lancashire Workmen,” in

Fortnightly Review, October 1868, in Pike, Golden Times (CP)

Sept. 28

Lab 2

R. Schwartz, “Railways and Population Change in Industrializing England,” Chapter 1: Maps, Concepts, and Numbers, pp. 3-15

http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rschwart/rail/intro_hist_gis.htm

Oct. 3

The City in the Country, the Country in the City: Tourism and Urban Reform

Winter, Secure from Rash Assault, chaps 10-11; review conclusion

Robert Vaughan,. The Age of Great Cities: or, Modern Society Viewed in Its Relation to Intelligence, Morals, and Religion, selection (CP)

Music Hall Song: “You Can Do A Lot of Things at the Seaside that You Can’t Do in Town”

http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rschwart/hist256/music_hall_songs.html#seaside

Further Reading

Jack Simmons, The Railway in Town and Country, 8 (Watering-places) (CP)

Oct. 5

Lab 3

R. Schwartz, "Railways and Population Change in Industrializing England," pp. 16-24

http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rschwart/rail/intro_hist_gis.htm

Oct. 10

Break

Oct. 12

Lab 4

R. Schwartz, "Railways and Population Change in Industrializing England," Chapter 2, Railways and Population Change, 1851-1914, pp. 1-10

http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rschwart/rail/intro_hist_gis.htm

Oct. 17

Steam and Speed: The Railway Revolution

Wolfgang Schivelbusch, The Railway Journey. Trains and Travel in the 19^th Century, chap. 3 “Railroad Space and Railroad Time,” chap. 4 “Panoramic Travel” andchap. 12 “Tracks in the City” (CP)

“People on the London and North-Western,” from E. Royston Pike, Golden Times. Human Documents of the Victorian Age (CP)

Jack Simmons, The Railway in Town and Country, chap. 2 (London), 4 (The Great Provincial Cities)

Oct. 19

Lab 5

R. Schwartz, "Railways and Population Change in Industrializing England," Chapter 2, Railways and Population Change, 1851-1914, pp. 10-16

http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rschwart/rail/intro_hist_gis.htm

Oct. 24

Politics of Railway Development

For two weeks, we will study the hearings before committees of Parliament on the licensing of railway construction. 

Oct. 26

Lab 6

R. Schwartz, "Railways and Population Change in Industrializing England," Chapter 2, Railways and Population Change, 1851-1914, pp.18-28, 33-36.

http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rschwart/rail/intro_hist_gis.htm

Oct. 31

Visit by Professor Dominic Fontana of University of Portsmouth, England

Continue with study of railway hearings

Nov. 2

Lab 7  Politics of Railway Development

Presentations on the railway hearings.

Nov. 7

Railways, Rural Development, and Migration

Lawton, Richard, and Colin G Pooley. Britain, 1740-1950: an Historical Geography (London, 1992), chaps. 8 and 9 (CP)

“Anonymous navy,” “Tom Mullins, Farm Labourer,” “Lucy Luck, Straw-Plait Worker,” John Ward (O’Neil), Weaver,” and “Emanuel Lovekin, mining ‘butty’” in John Burnett, ed., Useful Toil(CP)

Further Reading

Thomas Hardy, Dorcester Labourer (CP)

Jack Simmons, The Railway in Town and Country, chap. 10 (Rural England and Wales) (CP)

Dov Friedlander, “Occupational structure, wages, and migration in late nineteenth-century England and Wales, Economic Development and Cultural Change 40 (1992): 295-318. (CP)

Humphrey R. Southall, “The tramping artisan revisits: labour mobility and economic distress in early Victorian England,” The Economic History Review  44 (1991):272-96. (CP)

Colin Pooley and Jean Turnbull, Migration and Mobility in Britain since the 18^th Century (London: UCL Press, 1988), chaps. 3-5 (Library Reserve)

Nov. 9

Lab 8

Mark Monmonier, Mapping It Out, pp. 173-185; and chap. 7 (CP)

Nov. 14

Defending Nature

William Wordsworth’s Guide to the Lakes, Letters and poem on the Windermere Railway (CP)

Jonathan Bate, “The Economy of Nature,” in his Romantic Ecology. Wordsworth and the Environmental Tradition. (CP)

Nov. 16

Open Lab

Nov. 21

Open Lab

Nov. 23 Break

Nov. 28

Conferences

Nov. 30

Conferences

Dec. 5

Presentations

Dec. 7

Presentations

Dec. 12

Summing Up