How Long to Read Iron Confederacies

How Long Does it Take to Read Iron Confederacies?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 34 minutes to read Iron Confederacies by Scott Reynolds Nelson

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

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.

How long is Iron Confederacies?

Iron Confederacies by Scott Reynolds Nelson is 272 pages long, and a total of 68,544 words.

This makes it 92% the length of the average book. It also has 84% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Iron Confederacies Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 14 minutes to read Iron Confederacies aloud.

What Reading Level is Iron Confederacies?

Iron Confederacies is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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