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Slavery and Freedom: US History 1750-1890 - ARTS2278
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Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
 
 
School:  School of History and Philosophy
 
 
Course Outline: School of History and Philosophy
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: 30 units of credit at Level 1
 
 
Equivalent: HIST2025
 
 
Fee Band: 1 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 
Available for General Education: Yes (more info)
 
 

Description

Subject Area: History
This course can also be studied in the following specialisations: Americas Studies



The course will explore different topics each week, but the major emphasis will be upon synthesis: --the interrelation of economic change, social structure, cultural life and politics from the origins of the American Revolution to the aftermath of the end of slavery. It will be argued that slavery and its nemesis in the form of free labour provides the central theme around which the American nation was made. It is hoped to explain the emergence by the 1890s of a nation-state and a market oriented society based upon free labour.

An attempt will also be made to put the subject into comparative perspective in order to make American history intelligible to an Australian audience which possesses its own history—a history superficially similar to American history but which differs in significant ways.

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