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HIST A308 - American Business History

This course examines organized profit-making activity in America since 1607. Topics include colonial business, merchant-agrarian capitalism, the business of slavery, government aid to business, industrialization, railroads and regulation, inventing and marketing, big business and anti-trust, managerial capitalism, modern entrepreneurs, environmental and consumer regulation, merger movements, information capitalism, and globalization.

Cr. 3.
Subject Area
[US] - [US] United States [WE] Western Europe [OW] Other World