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Course Catalog 2006-2007 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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HIST 258 - Industrial Revolution in America

4SS, WR
Second Semester. 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.


Prerequisites & Notes
Enrollment Limit: 25
Mr. Kornblith


Credits: 4 hours


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