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Davis, John Dean

 
9780226850931: Reconstructors: Land, Work, and Engineering After the Civil War
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ISBN 10: 0226850935 ISBN 13: 9780226850931
Casa editrice: University of Chicago Press, 2026

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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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Editore
University of Chicago Press
Data di pubblicazione
2026
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0226850935
ISBN 13 
9780226850931
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
281
Contatto del produttore
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