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Reconstructors|John Dean Davis

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

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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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  • ISBN-13: 9780226850931
  • ISBN-10: 0226850935
  • Publisher: University of Chicago Press
  • Publish Date: August 2026
  • Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.64 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.84 pounds
  • Page Count: 304

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