Tag: the state

A Power in the Land: Union Pacific in the Greater Reconstruction

A Power in the Land: Union Pacific in the Greater Reconstruction

Railroads have long been subjects of Civil War era studies. Scholars have cast them as promoters of growth before the conflict, agents of capacity and connection during the war itself, and instruments of expansion and empire in its aftermath. Most recently, Richard White has argued that the transcontinentals transformed the ...
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Call for Papers: JCWE Special Issue on Politics, the State, and American Capitalism in the Civil War Era

Call for Papers: JCWE Special Issue on Politics, the State, and American Capitalism in the Civil War Era

CALL FOR PAPERS                                                                                                ...
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