03151nam 2200601Ia 450 991046326420332120200520144314.00-8203-4566-0(CKB)3170000000060521(EBL)1222474(SSID)ssj0000890847(PQKBManifestationID)11932432(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000890847(PQKBWorkID)10888153(PQKB)10514905(MiAaPQ)EBC1222474(OCoLC)849919737(MdBmJHUP)muse25497(Au-PeEL)EBL1222474(CaPaEBR)ebr10712853(CaONFJC)MIL491880(OCoLC)854973933(EXLCZ)99317000000006052120111102d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCold war dixie[electronic resource] militarization and modernization in the American south /Kari FredericksonAthens University of Georgia Press20131 online resource (240 p.)Politics and culture in the twentieth-century south Description based upon print version of record.0-8203-4519-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; One. "This Most Essential Task": The Decision to Build the Super; Two. A Varied Landscape: Geography and Culture in the Savannah River Valley; Three. "A Land Doomed and Damned": The Costs of Militarization; Four. "Bigger'n Any Lie": Building the Bomb Plant; Five. Rejecting the Garrison State: National Priorities and Local Limitations; Six. "Better Living": Life in a Cold War Company Town; Seven. Shifting Landscapes: Politics and Race in a Cold War Community; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; JKL; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; YFocusing 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, lanPolitics and Culture in the Twentieth-Century SouthCold warSocial aspectsSavannah River Valley (Ga. and S.C.)History20th centurySavannah River Valley (Ga. and S.C.)History20th centuryElectronic books.Cold warSocial aspectsHistory975/.043Frederickson Kari A918327MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910463264203321Cold war dixie2109103UNINA