HISTORY OF AMERICAN CAPITALISM

ECON/HISTORY 466

Emergence of the large corporation; growth and instability since the mid-nineteenth century; increasing government participation in the economy; the impact of war, depression, discrimination, and international responsibilities.

ECON 465

Survey of the forces underlying American economic development and the distribution of income; rise of regional economies; origins of manufacturing; effects of slavery; influence of government and politics on growth.

HISTORY 101

American political, economic, and social development from the founding of the colonies to the Civil War.

HISTORY/SOC 670

Political institutional arrangements which have emerged since 1890 and how they have influenced social and economic policies implemented since the Second World War. Why the working class has been politically weak in America; policy consequences of this weakness.

AFROAMER 621

Addresses the relationship between slavery and capitalism in the British North American colonies and the United States of America. Drawing on recent scholarship that explores how slavery and capitalism are independent systems, examines how the labor of enslaved people affected the development and growth of wage labor; the impact of the growth and dominance of capitalism as an economic system on the institution of slavery; and the experiences of enslaved people.