Gwybodaeth Modiwlau
Course Delivery
Delivery Type | Delivery length / details |
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Lecture | 18 x 1 hour lectures |
Seminars / Tutorials | 10 x 1 hour seminars |
Assessment
Assessment Type | Assessment length / details | Proportion |
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Semester Assessment | 2 X 2,500 WORD ESSAYS | 40% |
Semester Exam | 3 Hours | 60% |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this module, students should be able to:
(a) Demonstrate familiarity with a substantial and focussed body of historical knowledge in the field of 19th-century urban and political French history.
(b) Engage in source criticism, discussion and understanding of relevant primary and secondary literature.
(c) Describe and evaluate a wide range of historical techniques relevant to the study period.
(d) Evaluate the relationships between history and other disciplines, particularly human geography and sociology.
(e) Develop oral skills (not assessed) through seminar discussion and written skills through essay preparation and writing.
(f) Engage in collaborative inter-action in group work (not assessed)
Brief description
In the more expansive economic conditions prevailing from the 1850s, investment in the city was encouraged by the potential for profit and by political decisions in favour of large-scale slum clearance, and subsidies for the construction of new boulevards and public buildings. Particularly significant for the improvement of public and personal hygiene was the construction of sewer networks and increased supply of less polluted water. Moral order was to be restored through the provision of churches and schools. The provision of low cost accommodation was neglected both by the state and private investors, although rising real incomes gradually improved living standards.
Every effort will be made to capture the experience of living in a city undergoing rapid transformation, from a gender perspective, as well as that of various social groups ? wealthy elites, professionals, small business people, skilled and unskilled workers, those of the primary schoolteacher and priest. How did the transformation of the physical environment, the experience of revolution or cholera, changes in the job market, rising levels of literacy, the development of the mass media influence perceptions of the city?
A wide range of evidence is readily available in English including that produced by censuses and social surveys, by economic enquiries, in diaries and memoirs, by novelists, painters and photographers, and by the administration and police. This will provide the material for project work and for source criticism.
Reading List
Recommended TextA Shapiro (1988) Housing the people of Paris, 1850-1902 Primo search D Harvey (1985) Consciousness and the urban experience Primo search D Olsen (1985) The city as a work of art: London, Paris, Vienna Primo search D Pinkney (1958) Napoleon III and the rebuilding of Paris Primo search D van Zanten (1994) Building Paris, 1830-70 Primo search J Gaillard (1977) Paris, la ville Primo search J Merriman (ed) (1982) French cities in the 19th century Primo search L Chevalier (1973) Laboring classes and dangerous classes in Paris during the first half of the 19th century Primo search R Herbert (1988) Impressionism: art, leisure and Parisian society Primo search R Price (1987) A social history of 19th century France Primo search S.Kaplan, C.Koepp, (eds) (1986) Work in France. Representations, meaning, organization and practice Primo search
Notes
This module is at CQFW Level 6