- General Characteristics of the 1760–1830 Period
- The Industrial Revolution
- Industrialization in England
- Conditions and causes
- Changes in cotton manufacturing
- Social changes
- Classical economics: the rationale for industrialization
- Adam Smith: Wealth of Nations
- Thomas Malthus: Essay on the Principle of Population
- David Ricardo: Principles of Political Economy and Taxation
- Political Revolutions, 1780–1815
- The American Revolution
- Causes and phases
- Results of the revolution
- The French Revolution
- Causes and phases
- The Napoleonic era
- Technology
- Changes in military weaponry
- Composition of armies
- Changes to naval warfare
- Reaction, 1815–1830
- Assessment of the results of the revolutions
- Reform and restoration across Europe
- Revolutions in Art and Ideas: from Neoclassicism to Romanticism
- Comparison and contrast of the two movements
- Neoclassicism in literature after 1789: Jane Austen
- Neoclassical painting and architecture after 1789
- Jacques-Louis David
- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
- Thomas Jefferson
- Classicism in literature after 1789
- Romanticism: its spirit and expression
- Causes and characteristics of romanticism
- The romantic movement in literature
a) Sturm und Drang: Goethe as a young writer
b) English romanticism
(1) Wordsworth
(2) Coleridge
c) Goethe: Faust
d) Lord Byron: Don Juan
e) Percy Bysshe Shelley
f) Keats
g) Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
- Romantic painting
a) John Constable
b) J. M. W. Turner
c) Caspar David Friedrich
d) Francisco Goya
e) Théodore Géricault
f) Eugène Delacroix
- The sciences
a) Chemistry
b) Electricity
c) Botany
- Philosophy: German idealism
a) Immanuel Kant
b) Johann Gottlieb Fichte
c) F. W. J. von Schelling
d) G. F. W. Hegel
- The birth of romantic music
a) Ludwig van Beethoven
b) Franz Schubert
c) Hector Berlioz
- The Legacy of the Age of Revolution and Reaction
