George and Ann RichardsCivil War Era Center

The Richards Center community came together to workshop Dr. Emma Teitelman’s manuscript chapter entitled “Enforcing Property and Territory in Phelps Dodge’s America.” Her paper follows efforts to enforce new relations of property in the timberlands of Georgia and mineral lands of Arizona following a period of social and political reorganization during Reconstruction. It shows how jurisdictional boundaries – between national and sub-national institutions, as well as between different national authorities – became a key object of political struggle as capital traversed and transformed different political spaces. Dr. Teitelman’s book project is currently under contract with Harvard University Press.