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Author Frederickson, Kari A.

Title Cold war dixie : militarization and modernization in the American south / Kari Frederickson.

Publication Info. Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 226 pages :) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Politics and culture in the twentieth-century South
Politics and culture in the twentieth-century South.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents "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.
Summary 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 partnership between the Atomic Energy Commission and the DuPont Corporation and was dedicated to producing materials for the hydrogen bomb. Kari Frederickson shows how the needs of the expanding national security state, in combination with the corporate culture of DuPont, transformed the economy, lan.
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Subject Cold War -- Social aspects -- Savannah River Valley (Ga. and S.C.) -- History -- 20th century.
Cold War (1945-1989)
Social aspects.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Savannah River Valley (Ga. and S.C.) -- History -- 20th century.
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Frederickson, Kari A. Cold War Dixie 9780820345192 (DLC) 2012048326 (OCoLC)823472891
ISBN 0820345199
9780820345192
0820345660
9780820345666
9780820345192
9780820345666
9780820345208
0820345202