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Perimeters of democracy : inverse utopias and the wartime social landscape in the American West / Heather Fryer.
Van Pelt Library D769.8.G68 F79 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fryer, Heather.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Government-controlled communities--United States.
- Government-controlled communities.
- World War, 1939-1945--United States.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Internal security--United States--History--20th century.
- Internal security.
- United States.
- History.
- Klamath Indian Reservation (Or.)--Social conditions--20th century.
- Klamath Indian Reservation (Or.).
- Los Alamos (N.M.)--Social conditions--20th century.
- Los Alamos (N.M.).
- Topaz (Utah)--Social conditions--20th century.
- Topaz (Utah).
- Vanport (Or.)--Social conditions--20th century.
- Vanport (Or.).
- West (U.S.)--Social conditions--20th century.
- West (U.S.).
- Physical Description:
- xi, 398 pages, 18 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2010]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780803220331
- 0803220332
- OCLC:
- 457150807
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