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Perimeters of democracy inverse utopias and the wartime social landscape in the American West

Title
Perimeters of democracy [electronic resource] : 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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Description
1 online resource (xi, 398 p.) : ill., map.
Uniform Title
Perimeters of democracy (Online)
Alternative Title
Perimeters of democracy (Online)
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.
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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.
LCCN
2009047713
OCLC
ssj0000440701
Author
Fryer, Heather.
Title
Perimeters of democracy [electronic resource] : 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.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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