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HIST 480 - Gilded Age of America (1877-1900)


(3 S.H.)

Explores late 19th-century corporate, industrial development and its social, cultural and political consequences. The course pays special attention to both old-fashioned, communitarian counter-attacks and progressive, radical opposition to the new economic order in rural and urban settings. It also explores the mass immigration and new urban political and social structures that economic change generated. The course concludes with consideration of the emergence of the New Empire amidst the Spanish-American War. Prerequisites: HIST 151 - United States History Since 1865  and ENG 111 - College Reading and Writing  or instructor’s permission. Grade only.


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