HISTORY 357
Making Modern America 1877-1924
Please note: this is archived course information from 2017 for HISTORY 357.
Description
"'Can a nation become an industrial and international power and remain a democracy?" This was the central question for a generation of Americans at the turn of the Twentieth Century as they faced the challenges of unprecedented wealth inequality, labour conflict, immigration, urbanisation, cultural transformation and empire. This course will examine these developments and Americans’ responses to them with an eye to understanding how the period from the 1870s to the 1920s made America “modern”.
Availability 2017
Semester 2
Lecturer(s)
Coordinator(s) Dr Paul Taillon
Reading/Texts
Nell Irvin Painter, Standing at Armageddon: The United States, 1877-1919, New York, 2008
Points
HISTORY 357: 15 points
Prerequisites
15 points at Stage II in History and 60 points passed
Restrictions
HISTORY 257
