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049 _aMAIN
100 1 _aFrederickson, Kari A.
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245 1 0 _aCold war dixie :
_bmilitarization and modernization in the American south /
_cKari Frederickson.
260 _aAthens :
_bUniversity of Georgia Press,
_c(c)2013.
300 _a1 online resource (xii, 226 pages :) :
_billustrations.
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aPolitics and culture in the twentieth-century South
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505 0 0 _a"This most essential task" : the decision to build the Super --
_tA varied landscape : geography and culture in the Savannah River Valley --
_t"A land doomed and damned" : the costs of militarization --
_t"Bigger'n any lie" : building the bomb plant --
_tRejecting the garrison state : national priorities and local limitations --
_t"Better living" : life in a Cold War company town --
_tShifting landscapes : politics and race in a Cold War community --
_tEpilogue.
520 0 _aFocusing 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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650 0 _aCold War
_xSocial aspects
_zSavannah River Valley (Ga. and S.C.)
_xHistory
_y20th century.
655 1 _aElectronic Books.
856 4 0 _uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=516892&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518
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_dCynthia Snell