James Ashley, the forgotten emancipator -- Antislavery constitutionalism and the meaning of freedom -- Free labor and wage slavery: the labor and antislavery movements -- Ashley's egalitarian free labor vision -- Ashley in Congress, 1859-1863 -- The Thirteenth Amendment and a ne…
In An Example for All the Land, Kate Masur offers the first major study of Washington during Reconstruction in over fifty years. Masur's panoramic account considers grassroots struggles, city politics, Congress, and the presidency, revealing the District of Columbia as a unique …
In 1994, the Pacific island village of Matupit was partially destroyed by a volcanic eruption. This study focuses on the subsequent reconstruction and contests over the morality of exchanges that are generative of new forms of social stratification. Such new dynamics of stratifi…