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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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Athens :
University of Georgia Press,
2013
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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.