Unredeemed Land Av Erin Stewart (assistant Professor Of Hist Mauldin

How did the Civil War and the emancipation of four million slaves reconfigure the natural landscape in the South and the farming economy dependent upon it? An innovative reconsideration of the Civil War''s profound impact on southern history, Unredeemed Land traces the environmental constraints that shaped the rural South''s transition to capitalism during the late nineteenth century. Dixie''s "King Cotton" required extensive land use techniques across large swaths of acreage, fresh soil, and slave-based agriculture in order to remain profitable. But wartime destruction and the rise of the contract labor system closed off those possibilitiesand necessitated increasingly intensive methods of cultivation that worked against the environment. The resulting disconnect between farmers'' use of the land and what the natural environment could support intensified the economic dislocation of freed people, poor farmers, and sharecroppers. Erin StewartMauldin demonstrates how the Civil War and ema

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Seeing Like An Activist Av Erin R. (assistant Professor Of Government Assistant Professor Of Government Smith College) Pineda

There are few movements more firmly associated with civil disobedience than the Civil Rights Movement. In the mainstream imagination, civil rights activists eschewed coercion, appealed to the majority''s principles, and submitted willingly to...

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Grandstanding Av Justin (assistant Professor Of Philosophy Assistant Professor Of Philosophy Texas Tech University) Tosi, Brandon (assistant Professor

We are all guilty of it. We call people terrible names in conversation or online. We vilify those with whom we disagree, and make bolder claims than we could defend. We want to be seen as taking the moral high ground not just to make a point, or move...

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Debating Surrogacy Av Anca (assistant Professor Assistant Professor Central European University) Gheaus, Christine (professor Of Ethics And Applied Et

Offering a for-and-against look at surrogacy, this book focuses on questions which bear on its justifiability: Is providing gestational services a permissible way of employing a woman's body? Indeed, is it a legitimate form of work? Are the children...

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A Duty To Resist Av Candice (assistant Professor Of Philosophy And Political Science And Associate Director Of The Politics Assistant Professor Of Ph

What are our responsibilities in the face of injustice? How far should we go to fight it? Many would argue that as long as a state is nearly just, citizens have a moral duty to obey the law. Proponents of civil disobedience generally hold that, given...

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Unredeemed Land Av Erin Stewart (assistant Professor Of Hist Mauldin

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