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  1. General Characteristics of the 1760-1830 Period

  2. The Industrial Revolution
    1. Industrialization in England
      1. Conditions and causes
      2. Changes in cotton manufacturing
      3. Social changes
    2. Classical economics: the rationale for industrialization
      1. Adam Smith: Wealth of Nations
      2. Thomas Malthus: Essay on the Principle of Population
      3. David Ricardo: Principles of Political Economy and Taxation

  3. Political Revolutions, 1760-1815
    1. The American Revolution
      1. Causes and phases
      2. Results of the revolution
    2. The French Revolution
      1. Causes and phases
      2. The Napoleonic era
    3. Technology
      1. Field artillery cannon
      2. Naval warfare

  4. Reaction, 1815-1830
    1. Assessment of the results of the revolutions
    2. Reform and restoration across Europe

  5. Revolutions in Art and Ideas: from Neoclassicism to Romanticism
    1. Comparison and contrast of the two movements
    2. Neoclassical in literature after 1789
      1. Jane Austen
      2. Pride and Prejudice
    3. Neoclassical painting and architecture after 1789
      1. Jacques-Louis David
      2. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
      3. Thomas Jefferson
    4. Romanticism: its spirit and expression
      1. The Romantic Movement in Literature
          2. a)  Wordsworth
          b)   Coleridge
          c)   Goethe
          d)   Lord Byron
          e)   Percy Bysshe Shelley
          f)   Keats
          g)   Mary Shelley
      2. Romantic Painting
          3. a)   England
          b)   Germany
          c)   Spain
          d)   France
    5. Science and Philosophy
      1. Science
          2. a)   Lavoisier
          b)   Priestly
          c)   Franklin
          d)   Linnaeus
      2. Philosophy
          3. a)   Immanuel Kant
          b)   F. W. J. von Schelling
          c)   G. F. W. Hegel
    6. The Birth of Romantic Music
      1. Ludwig van Beethoven
      2. Franz Schubert
      3. Hector Berlioz

  6. The Legacy of the Age of Revolution and Reaction






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