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2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
 
  Aug 28, 2026
 
2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
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HIST 0612 - AMERICAN CAPITALISM


Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Long Description This course surveys the history of North American capitalism from the time of the first European settlements up through the emergence of a recognizably modern economy in the aftermath of the Civil War. It focuses in particular on the ways in which ordinary people made a living, how and why those ways changed over time, and what those changes in turn can tell us about the evolving structural determinants of the system as a whole.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: DSAS Historical Analysis General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req.


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