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Perimeters of democracy : inverse utopias and the wartime social landscape in the American West
- Title
- Perimeters of democracy : inverse utopias and the wartime social landscape in the American West / Heather Fryer.
- Author
- Fryer, Heather.
- Publication
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2010.
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Details
- Description
- xi, 398 p., [18] p. of plates : ill., map; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Government-controlled communities > United States
- World War, 1939-1945 > United States
- Internal security > United States > History > 20th century
- Klamath Indian Reservation (Or.) > Social conditions > 20th century
- Los Alamos (N.M.) > Social conditions > 20th century
- Topaz (Utah) > Social conditions > 20th century
- Vanport (Or.) > Social conditions > 20th century
- West (U.S.) > Social conditions > 20th century
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : discovering the inverse-utopian West -- Beware of crafty bandits : enmification in the empire for liberty -- The great citizenship pantomime : politics and power in a barbed-wire democracy -- Cultivating dependency : economics and education in America's inverse utopias -- Tragic ironies : everyday life in an inverse utopia -- From barbed wire to bootstraps : freedom and community in Cold War America -- Termination of the Klamath reservation : from inverse utopia to Indian dystopia -- No camps for commies : the dual legacies of dissonance and dissidents.
- Call Number
- IXR 10-4035
- ISBN
- 9780803220331 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0803220332 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2009047713
- OCLC
- YBP 2009047713
- Author
- Fryer, Heather.
- Title
- Perimeters of democracy : inverse utopias and the wartime social landscape in the American West / Heather Fryer.
- Imprint
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2010.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- IXR 10-4035