PPT-5HUM0271 Politics and Culture in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Lecture 4 Gulliver s Travels and the politics of corruption Structure of the lecture The Scriblerians Party politics Why historians have termed this an age of oligarchy Gulliver. Gerry Stoker . University of Southampton and University of Canberra . @. ProfStoker. Starting points. Anti-politics is an awkward and potentially misleading term . Disillusionment and disengagement from mainstream politics . . Opera seria in the early eighteenth century. Addressed to aristocratic audience. Dramatic style — libretti brought to high level by Pietro Metastasio (1698–1782). Rationalistic. three acts. dialogue in simple recitative alternating with affective/rhetorical arias generally in da capo form. What . is Romanticism? In your notebook, write down anything you know or think about Romanticism.. Romanticism: . Artistic . and intellectual movement that originated in the late 18th century and stressed strong emotion, imagination, freedom from classical correctness in art forms, and rebellion against social conventions. . Building and Staging Politics: Livy and Augustus. Kennedy’s ‘. Augustan and Anti-Augustan…. ’. What . are the problems associated with discussing the ‘. politics. ’ of ancient literature. 1. PURPOSe of the series. What . we won’t be doing. …. 1. PURPOSe of the series. What we will be doing. …. 2. A few ground rules. 3. My Motivation . 3. My Motivation . A . pastoral. motivation. Lecture 2: the crowd and the mob. Newspaper accounts of the riots of August 2011. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/8690251/London-riots-Guerrilla-warfare-erupts-as-no-one-knows-where-mob-will-strike-next.html. Slave Societies. From Slavery to Freedom. 9. th. ed.. © 2010 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved. . 2. Shipment of African slaves to . South Carolina, 1769. Eighteenth-Century Slave Societies. Historian’s Toolkit . Block . 1: . 1979 and all that. Questions. What happens to the question of 1979 as a turning point if we think about the politics of identity?. Can we trace this history through analysis of popular culture, and here in particular music? And does the emergence of punk in the late 1970s represent a crisis and turning point in this regard?. Map questions from former. AP Euro Tests. Based . on the map above, which of the following is true?. The use of slaves was not as robust in Europe as it was in other parts of the world.. The majority of slaves brought to the Americas likely lived on the eastern coast of Africa, thus explaining why descendants of slaves can trace their roots to modern countries such as Ethiopia.. Ripe for independence?. Portuguese expansion into Africa: 16. th. -century coastal trading . feitorias. “Discovery” and Early Administration. Major Portuguese trading empire: Azores, Madeira, Africa; Asia. 1 An early phasebased on ritual and magic2 A rational phasebased on the creative imagination3 A modern phasebased on experimental design and laboratory investigation Thre Year 8 - Britain’ s place in the World. How did Britain help shape the world we live in and how did the world shape Britain?. Why did the British Build and Empire?. The Empire Builder. What was their role?. Table of Contents. Introduction: Capturing Web 2.0 Before its Disappearance. Psychopathology of Information Overload . Facebook, Anonymity and the Crisis of the Multiple Self . Treatise on Comment Culture . A Level Politics. It aims to:. Provide you with a ‘balanced education in politics’, and ‘understanding of the nature of politics, and an understanding in the context of the Untied Kingdom, including its local, national and European...