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Academic Year 2001/2002

Born Rich: Wealth in America
AMST 206 FA

This course is a study of the amassing and dispersal of great wealth in America, primarily in the 19th and 20th centuries: industrial money, money money, and other forms of fortune. What we will study is some of the cultural results of this money, rather than its sources; mansion-building, yacht-buying, eccentricity, collecting, fashion, causes, and other forms of expenditure: charity and tax evasion as investments in the future (of the hospital, the nation, the fortune). Misbehavior of the descend ents, curmudgeons, myth of founding mothers and fathers, and sudden loss are also matters for occasional examination.

COURSE FORMAT: Lecture/Discussion

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD    Credit: 1    Gen Ed Area Dept: NONE    Grading Mode: Graded   

Prerequisites: AMST154 Links to Web Resources For This Course.

Last Updated on MAR-19-2002

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