Courses

This course examines major historiographical shifts in the Modern British field from the 1950s to the present.  “Modern Britain” is conceived here as Britain from the eighteenth century to the present.  We will look at how historians engaged in turn with:  “high politics”, social history, gender, the state, the linguistic/cultural turn, Foucault, the “new imperial history”, transnational history, personality and emotions, multiculturalism and “race,” and the rise of neoliberalism.