Name: Reconstructors. Land, Work, and Engineering After the Civil War
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Author: John Dean Davis

portada Reconstructors. Land, Work, and Engineering After the Civil War

Reconstructors. Land, Work, and Engineering After the Civil War

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

University of Chicago Press

Autor

John Dean Davis

Año

2026

N° páginas

304

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

22.9x15.2 cm

ISBN13

9780226850917

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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.