HISTORY 3YY3- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 25 pages long!)
28 Mar 2018
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Lecture overview: edwardian period=unravelling of the victorian synthesis, edwardian period=rise of the germanophonia. Britain changing place in the world (1870-1914) Rise of domestic political anxieties and xenophobias. Declining faith in liberalism, laissez faire, parliamentary, and process. Major challenges to social order (gender and class) Often when we talk about the first world war it is situated in the middle of international conflicts, but historians have emphasized the importance of domestic. Faith in british race and strength of the empire>increasing sense of superiority to other races and colonize/spread progress to the rest of the world. Respectability as a social code>middle class life (the rise of the british middle class) *queen victoria was born in 1819 and came to the throne in 1876 and ruled until she died in. Defined as the unravelling of the confidence acquired during the victorian period. International anxieties: britain falling behind other countries, cultural values and economic/political inefficiency, surrounded by new stronger enemies.
