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Author Fryer, Heather.

Title Perimeters of democracy : inverse utopias and the wartime social landscape in the American West / Heather Fryer
Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 398 pages) : illustrations, map
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 Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-372) and index
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Subject Government-controlled communities -- United States
World War, 1939-1945 -- United States
Internal security -- United States -- History -- 20th century
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
Government-controlled communities
Internal security
Social conditions
SUBJECT 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
Subject New Mexico -- Los Alamos
Oregon -- Klamath Indian Reservation
Oregon -- Vanport
United States
West United States
Utah -- Topaz
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2009047713
ISBN 9780803230392
0803230397
9786612749346
6612749342
128274934X
9781282749344