San Antonio College Library

"Through 12 case studies from Australia, Bangladesh, Haiti, Sri Lanka, Vietnam and the USA, this book focuses on the housing reconstruction process after an earthquake, tsunami, cyclone, flood or fire. Design of post-disaster housing is not simply replacing the destroyed house but, as these case studies highlight, a means to not only build a safer house but also a more resilient community; not to simply return to the same condition as before the disaster,...

Introduction: the tragic legend of Reconstruction, by K.M. Stampp.--The friend of freedom, by R.N. Current.--Andrew Johnson, outsider, by E.L. McKitrick.--Johnson and the Negro, by LaWanda and J.H. Cox.--Northeastern business and radical Reconstruction, by S. Coben.--The "conspiracy theory" of the fourteenth amendment, by H.J. Graham.--The ballot and land for the freedmen, 1861-1865, by J.M. McPherson.--Negro suffrage and Republican politics, by LaWanda...

A survey stressing the factors that brought about reconciliation between North and South.

Explores the popular culture of the Civil War and Reconstruction era, examining how Americans coped with the trials and tribulations of the period. Explora la cultura popular de la Guerra Civil y y la era de la Reconstrucción, examinando como los americanos se enfrentaron a los problemas y juicios del período.