HIST 1145 - INTELLECTUAL FOUNDATIONS OF CAPITALISM

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course explores the salient features of European economic development from the black plague of the Middle Ages to the Great Depression of the 1930’s. The emphasis will be to understand how social, demographic, and economic processes interacted and ultimately culminated in one of the most momentous events in the history of mankind, the Industrial Revolution. We shall venture an explanation for why Europe was the first continent and England the first country to industrialize. The social changes in the aftermath of the Revolution will also be covered.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: DSAS Historical Analysis General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Phil. Think or Ethics General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req.

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