The Tangled Relationship Between Business & Culture

In Teaching and Research

Camden Burd - Ph.D. Candidate

Department of History, University of Rochester

"This course will help you gain insight into how business is embedded in history and culture and about how business education is connected to the broader world of ideas. This course is integrative in that we will draw from many disciplines and many traditions; this course is critical in that we will carefully consider the texts we study and discuss their assumptions and implications; this course is rigorous in that we will endeavor to think clearly and argue persuasively."

Boydston, Jeanne. Home and Work: Housework, Wages, and the Ideology of Labor in the Early Republic. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.

Devos, Richard M. Believe! Old Tappan, New Jersey: Fleming H. Revell Co., 1975.

"It was interesting to have the spatial component in our learning, it made the information seem real."

"Using the many layers of ArcGIS , I learned about how to use

statistics (collected data) to discover a historical pattern or trend. "

"The maps showed us some of the real-world impacts of capitalism at work in our society. It was fascinating to see, by layering different maps, all the ways the issues we had discussed throughout the semester interact with each other."

The Ornament of Empire:

Nurserymen and the Making of the American Landscape

Chapter 1 - Flour City
Chapter 2 - Nurserymen
Chapter 3 - Business Empire
Chapter 4 - Flower City
Chapter 5 - Bugs
Chapter 6 - Ornament

George Ellwanger

Patrick Barry

transforms what is only a tame meadow and a bleak aspect into an Eden of interest and delights… It gives a bit of soil, too insignificant to find a place in the geography of the earth’s surface, such an importance in the eyes of its possessor that he finds it more attractive than countless acres of unknown and unexplored ‘territory.'