Prerequisite
English 100/101 and History 220B
Course Description
This upper-division course investigates the transformation and expansion of America and American influence from the end of the Civil War through World War I. The issues evaluated include the problems of postwar reconstruction; demographic and economic expansion into the western territories; the process of industrialization and the attendant consequences for labor and social relations; mass immigration; the growth of American imperialism; the socialist, populist and progressive movements; and World War I and Wilsonianism. It includes an evaluation of the strains upon laissez faire capitalism with the growth of economies of scale and the resultant expansion of international financial and market networks.