HISTORY 409 - Seminar:Enterprise & Society:Business in American HistoryThis

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Hobart William Smith Colleges

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Description:

course analyzes the changing place that business has had in American life and Americans' imaginations. It is not a conventional business history class - we will not be exploring the institutional or macroeconomic history of business. Instead, our goal will be to come to grips with Americans' understandings of and responses to profit-making enterprises. Accordingly, we will ask how, and why, entrepreneurialism has become a primary source of American identity; what the sources of support for and opposition to business have been over time; how, and why, conceptions of individual success have changed; and how Americans have reacted to different sectors of the economy, different kinds of businesses, and different types of capitalism. We'll pay particularly close attention to the meanings that have been attached to Wall Street, the modern corporation, and advertising. Most of our materials will consist of historical monographs but we will also use novels and films. Prerequisites: HIST 105 or permission of the instructor for Seniors and Juniors; Permission of the instructor for First-Years and Sophomores. (Ho od, offered alternate year

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

WWW.HWS.EDU

Phone Number:

(315) 781-3000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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