Perimeters of democracy inverse utopias and the wartime social landscape in the American West / Heather Fryer.

Author/creator Fryer, Heather
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLincoln : University of Nebraska Press,
Descriptionxi, 398 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Supplemental ContentFull text available from UPCC Books History 2010 Subject Collection
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.

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2009047713
ISBN9780803220331 (cloth : alk. paper)

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