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

Publication Data

• Title Perimeters of democracy : inverse utopias and the wartime social landscape in the American West
• Author Heather Fryer
• Publisher University of Nebraska Press
• Publication date 2010
• Publication location Lincoln
• Language English

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.

Topics

• 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
• Klamath Indian Reservation (Or.)
• Los Alamos (N.M.)
• Topaz (Utah)
• Vanport (Or.)
• West (U.S.)

Perimeters of democracy : inverse utopias and the wartime social landscape in the American West by Heather Fryer. ISBN 9780803220331. Published by University of Nebraska Press in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.