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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fryer, Heather
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2010]
Subjects:
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.
Table of 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.