Perimeters of democracy
Subtitle: inverse utopias and the wartime social landscape in the American West
By: Heather Fryer.
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780803220331
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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : discovering the inverse-utopian West; title: Beware of crafty bandits : enmification in the empire for liberty; title: The great citizenship pantomime : politics and power in a barbed-wire democracy; title: Cultivating dependency : economics and education in America's inverse utopias; title: Tragic ironies : everyday life in an inverse utopia; title: From barbed wire to bootstraps : freedom and community in Cold War America; title: Termination of the Klamath reservation : from inverse utopia to Indian dystopia; title: No camps for commies : the dual legacies of dissonance and dissidents.