Background
Nelson, Scott Reynolds was born on March 28, 1964 in Nyack, New York, United States. Son of John Reynolds and Carole Brown Nelson.
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During Reconstruction, an alliance of southern planters and northern capitalists rebuilt the southern railway system using remnants of the Confederate railroads that had been built and destroyed during the Civil War. In the process of linking Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia by rail, this alliance created one of the largest corporations in the world, engendered bitter political struggles, and transformed the South in lasting ways, says Scott Nelson. Iron Confederacies uses the history of southern railways to explore linkages among the themes of states' rights, racial violence, labor strife, and big business in the nineteenth-century South. By 1868, Ku Klux Klan leaders had begun mobilizing white resentment against rapid economic change by asserting that railroad consolidation led to political corruption and black economic success. As Nelson notes, some of the Klan's most violent activity was concentrated along the Richmond-Atlanta rail corridor. But conflicts over railroads were eventually resolved, he argues, in agreements between northern railroad barons and Klan leaders that allowed white terrorism against black voters while surrendering states' control over the southern economy.
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Nelson, Scott Reynolds was born on March 28, 1964 in Nyack, New York, United States. Son of John Reynolds and Carole Brown Nelson.
Doctor of Philosophy, University North Carolina, 1995.
Assistant professor history College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1994—2001, associate professor history, since 2001. Senior network architect Dylex Ltd, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1993—1994. Visiting research fellow agrarian studies Yale University, 1999—2000.
(During Reconstruction, an alliance of southern planters a...)
Married Cindy Hahamovitch, December 28, 1985. 1 child Reynolds Nelson Hahamovitch.