{"product_id":"reconstructors-john-dean-davis-9780226850917","title":"Reconstructors: Land, Work, and Engineering After the Civil War","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExplores the institutional and environmental transformations that occurred during the Reconstruction Era. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile 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 \u003ci\u003ere\u003c\/i\u003ebuilding the South after the Civil War, but flat-out building as it expanded westward. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eReconstructors\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Dean Davis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226850919\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226850917\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/18\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.21lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d","brand":"John Dean Davis","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":49174319923455,"sku":"9780226850917","price":115.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/reconstructors-john-dean-davis-9780226850917","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}