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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 descendents, curmudgeons, myth of founding mothers and fathers, and sudden loss are also matters for occasional examination.
COURSE FORMAT: Lecture/Discussion
Level: UGRD Credit: 1 Gen Ed Area Dept: NONE Grading Mode: Graded
Prerequisites: AMST154
Last Updated on MAR-24-2000
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