HI 329T - History of American Business

(3 units)

Traces the growth of the Industrial Revolution in the United States and evolution of the American businessman. Emphasis is placed on the growth of railroads and large-scale capitalist firms of the Gilded Age, on its principal figures: Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Morgan, and on the Populist-Progressive response to big business. The course concludes with an analysis of the New Capitalism of the 20th century and business’s response to its social responsibility.