Cold war dixie : militarization and modernization in the American south /

Focusing on the impact of the Savannah River Plant (SRP) on the communities it created, rejuvenated, or displaced, this book explores the parallel militarization and modernization of the Cold War-era South. The SRP, a scientific and industrial complex near Aiken, South Carolina, grew out of a 1950 p...

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Main Author: Frederickson, Kari A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2013
Series:Politics and culture in the twentieth-century South.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • "This most essential task" : the decision to build the Super
  • A varied landscape : geography and culture in the Savannah River Valley
  • "A land doomed and damned" : the costs of militarization
  • "Bigger'n any lie" : building the bomb plant
  • Rejecting the garrison state : national priorities and local limitations
  • "Better living" : life in a Cold War company town
  • Shifting landscapes : politics and race in a Cold War community
  • Epilogue.