Music Primers and Educational Series. EDITED BY JOHN STAINER AND C. HUBERT H. PARRY. A COMPLETE LIBRARY IN ITSELF. We offer a Complete Set of 56 Books in Paper Binding for $25.00, net cash; in Board Covers, strongly bound, Novello, Ewer & Co., 21 EAST 17TH STREET, NEW YORK. University Extension Lectures Syllabus of a Course of Six Lectures on The Expansion of England in the Eighteenth Century No. 228 by E. L. S. Horsburgh, B.A. Staff Lecturer in History and Literature for the Oxford and American Price, 10 cents Copyright, 1903, by The American Society for the Extension of University Teaching BOOKS. For general reference BRIGHT'S History of England, vols. ii, iii, will be constantly useful. TANCOCK'S England during the American and European Wars. (Longmans.) The American Revolution-Epochs of Modern History. (Macmillan.) Clive. (English Men of Action Series.) Warren Hastings. (Rulers of India Series.) In addition to these BANCROFT'S United States. BRYANT'S Popular History of the United States. BURKE. On American Taxation and Conciliation. Papers on Indian Affairs, 1773-1785. Published by authority from the archives in Calcutta. 1890. Edited by FORREST. The Story of Nuncomar. Sir JAMES STEPHEN. Echoes from Old Calcutta. BUSTEED. Dupleix. By Col. MALLESON. (Rulers of India Series.) Cornwallis. (Rulers of India Series.) Speeches on the Impeachment of Warren Hastings, in the works of Burke; or for easy reference see the Annual Register for the years in question. Other works bearing on details or special parts of the subject will be referred to in the Lectures or Class as the Course proceeds. LECTURE I. BEGINNINGS OF OUR COLONIAL SYSTEM. Activity generated by the Renaissance spirit, finds vent in love of adventure and in development of the science of navigation. The compass and the discovery of America. Voyages of discovery disclose new worlds to colonize and subdue. Spain as the pioneer in colonization. The age of Elizabeth marks the climax of the spirit of the Renaissance, and the climax of rivalry between England and Spain. This results in the struggle which is conducted chiefly on the sea. Influence of Drake and Raleigh as navigators and colonizers. New Albion and Virginia. Early failure, but gradual success of Virginia. Progress of the colony sketched up to 1750. The Pilgrim Fathers. Causes which led them to America, and to the New England districts. Their journey. Settlement at Plymouth. Their separatist settlement, distinct from later settlement at Boston. Roger Williams and Rhode Island. Progress and development of New England. Dutch colonization of the New Netherlands. Voyages of Henidrik Hudson. The Dutch colonies. They pass into the hands of the English. Colonization of Pennsylvania, the Carolinas and of Georgia. The latter the result of Oglethorpe's philanthropic efforts. Thus by 1730 the thirteen colonies are settled. Their government and constitution. Elements of strength and weakness as opposed to the mother-country. The French and Spaniards in America a factor in maintaining the dependence of the colonies. (See next Lecture.) |
