HIST 1200: The Idea of Entrepreneurship in Modern America (Fall 2022)

A guide to the entrepreneurial process; how the actions of entrepreneurs are shaped by the external environment and availability of resources, consider the types of organisations in which entrepreneurs can be found, and look at the diversity in their backgrounds, experience, etc.

Black business activity has been sustained in America for almost four centuries from the marketing and trading activities of African slaves in Colonial America to the rise of 20th-century black corporate America. This volume provides an overview of black business activities, and underscores the existence of a historic tradition of black American business participation.

Describing the impact of Euro-American settlement from a Native American perspective, the book profiles the economies of roughly forty Native American tribes and nations from pre-Columbian times to the present. Other entries focus on demographics, such historical issues as the Allotment Act of 1887, and modern efforts at economic development.

Written by leading scholars in their fields of expertise and authorities in diverse professions, the entries devote attention to diverse Asian and Pacific Islander American groups as well as the roles of women, distinct socioeconomic classes, Asian American political and social movements, and race relations involving Asian Americans.

From a household budget to international trade, economics ranges from the micro- to the macro-level. It relates to a breadth of social science disciplines that help describe the content of the proposed encyclopedia, which will explicitly approach economics through varied disciplinary lenses.