HIS 374 Creating Corporate America
In this upper-level history course, students will investigate the rise of corporations and big business in the United States. Focusing on the post-Civil War period to the 1940s, the course examines the earliest ideas and structures that created the corporation. Students will pay particular attention to the ways politics shaped business practices and policies. They will also consider the complex and changing relationships between corporations, distributors, unions, advertisers, consumers, and politicians. Above all, students will learn the how business shaped life in the United States.
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