Davis, J: Reconstructors Land, Work, and Engineering After the Civil War
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
18.08.2026
Abbildungen
49 halftones
Verlag
University PressesSeitenzahl
304
Maße (L/B)
22.9/15.2 cm
Gewicht
454 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-226-85091-7
Explores the institutional and environmental transformations that occurred during the Reconstruction Era.
While the Reconstruction Era in America saw a paradigmatic realignment of the country's core institutions and values, there was a physical quality to Reconstruction as well: the country was not only rebuilding the South after the Civil War, but flat-out building as it expanded westward.
In Reconstructors, John Dean Davis details how the Army Corps of Engineers and its subcontractors designed and redesigned the infrastructural landscape to support the republic's rebirth. The Corps' projects not only transformed the landscape; they created markets, fostered a distinctive expansionist culture, and--for a time--enacted a less discriminatory economic and social agenda across the South and West. Davis aims to bring federal power, environmentalism, and capitalism into a frame that reveals the landscape's power to further ideology.
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