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HIST 258 - Industrial Revolution in America


Next Offered: 2009-10
Semester Offered: Second Semester
Credits (Range): 4 Hours
Attribute: 4 SS, WR

The development of the United States from an overwhelmingly agrarian society to the world’s premier industrial power, ca.1790-1890. Topics include the origins of American capitalist development and of mechanization; rise of the 19th century metropolis; sources of labor radicalism; the impact of immigration; the growth of big business; industrialization and the Civil War; consumer culture; class struggles and the great strikes of the Gilded Age. Lecture/discussion format; independent research projects in primary sources. Enrollment Limit: 25.
Instructor: G. Kornblith


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