HIST 383 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Reform Act 1832, Composite Monarchy, Authoritarianism
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Lecture 1 - britain and ireland in the late seventeenth. Historians have expanded the conception of the 18th century. The long in century starts in 1688 and ends in 1832. 1688: invasion of william of orange and deposition of the catholic. Stuart monarch james ii (remembered as the glorious revolution) Deposed by parliament for authoritarianism and his effort to impose catholicism, it is seen as a transitional moment where parliament takes control and britain makes the transition to a constitutional monarchy. 1832: first reform act, expanding and to some degree rationalizing the franchise. Space in the middle with a society that is somewhere in between but also modernizing and changing its economy and political system. Four kingdoms were separate at this time (wales, ireland, scotland and. Britain was like many european powers a composite monarchy. Monarch ruled over several kingdoms, but this did not mean that the kingdoms called themselves a unified home.
