04421nam 2200685 450 991081179070332120230803204639.03-11-034693-13-11-036794-710.1515/9783110346930(CKB)3710000000229135(EBL)1480476(SSID)ssj0001333605(PQKBManifestationID)11914135(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001333605(PQKBWorkID)11392484(PQKB)10500901(MiAaPQ)EBC1480476(DE-B1597)246490(OCoLC)900718459(OCoLC)913096140(DE-B1597)9783110346930(Au-PeEL)EBL1480476(CaPaEBR)ebr11010396(CaONFJC)MIL805678(OCoLC)890070987(EXLCZ)99371000000022913520150210h20142014 uy 0engur||#||||||||txtccrPlots, designs, and schemes American conspiracy theories from the puritans to the present /Michael ButterBerlin, [Germany] ;Boston, [Massachusetts] :De Gruyter,2014.©20141 online resource (332 p.)linguae & litterae,1869-7054 ;Volume 33Description based upon print version of record.3-11-030759-6 Includes bibliographical references.Front matter --Acknowledgements --Contents --Introduction --Chapter 1. Mapping American Conspiracism --Chapter 2. Salem, or: The Metaphysical Puritan Conspiracy Theory --Chapter 3. Subversion through Education: The Catholic Conspiracy Theory --Chapter 4. Abolitionists, "Black Republicans," and the Slave Power: Antebellum Conspiracy Theories --Chapter 5. "Masters of Deceit": Conspiracy Theory in the Great Red Scare of the 1950's --Conclusion: To the Margins (and Back Again?) --Works CitedPlots, Designs, and Schemes is the first study that investigates the long history of American conspiracy theories from the perspective of literary and cultural studies. Since research in these fields has so far almost exclusively focused on the contemporary period, the book concentrates on the time before 1960. Four detailed case studies offer close readings of the Salem witchcraft crisis of 1692, fears of Catholic invasion during the 1830's to 1850's, antebellum conspiracy theories about slavery, and anxieties about Communist subversion during the 1950's. The study primarily engages with factual texts, such as sermons, pamphlets, political speeches, and confessional narratives, but it also analyzes how fears of conspiracy were dramatized and negotiated in fictional texts, such as Nathaniel Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown (1835) or Hermann Melville's Benito Cereno (1855). The book offers three central insights: 1. The American predilection for conspiracy theorizing can be traced back to the co-presence and persistence of a specific epistemological paradigm that relates all effects to intentional human action, the ideology of republicanism, and the Puritan heritage. 2. Until far into the twentieth century, conspiracy theories were considered a perfectly legitimate form of knowledge. As such, they shaped how many Americans, elites as well as "common" people, understood and reacted to historical events. The Revolutionary War and the Civil War would not have occurred without widespread conspiracy theories. 3. Although most extant research claims the opposite, conspiracy theories have never been as marginal and unimportant as in the past decades. Their disqualification as stigmatized knowledge only occurred around 1960, and coincided with a shift from theories that detect conspiracies directed against the government to conspiracies by the government.Linguae & litterae ;Volume 33.Conspiracy theoriesUnited StatesConspiracy theories.Narrative structures.USA.Conspiracy theories001.9HT 1691rvkButter Michael1156366Butter MichaelMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910811790703321Plots, designs, and schemes4107519UNINA05391oam 22008534a 450 991086208300332120211004152739.01-63682-042-50-87422-341-5(CKB)5590000000434426(OCoLC)1273307731(MdBmJHUP)musev2_82055(MiAaPQ)EBC31206695(Au-PeEL)EBL31206695(EXLCZ)99559000000043442620160825d2016 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAtomic GeographyA Personal History of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation /Melvin R. Adams1st ed.Pullman, Washington :Washington State University Press,[2016]©[2016]1 online resource (xiii, 140 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ;1-63682-007-7 What is Hanford? -- What is Hanford : a unique geography -- What is Hanford : a historical timeline -- An obscure, strange and fascinating place -- The paradoxes of Hanford -- Hanford : the personal challenge -- Hanford : the physical anomalies -- The atomic pond -- The PUREX railroad tunnels -- Z-9 Crib, poisoning plutonium and crawler robots -- Burial grounds -- Hanford : the cultural progression -- First fishing, then farming, then Hanford -- From plutonium to cleanup -- The street names of Richland -- The atomic man -- F house -- How a Japanese balloon shut Hanford down -- Hanford : the engineering challenge -- The nuclear priesthood and archaeological analogs -- The weeds -- Natural analogs : designing a water retaining barrier -- Thousands of wells -- Tumbleweeds -- Bird in a tank and data overload -- Pumping carbon tetrachloride -- The Beverly Railroad Bridge -- Glowing in the dark -- Tank waste controversy -- Hanford : the national park -- Elk and wild horses -- Rare plants/ new plants -- The Hanford Reach -- B reactor -- Hanford as a redemptive quest -- Hanford : the poetic response -- Glossary."Perhaps the first environmental engineer at Hanford, Melvin R. Adams spent 24 years on its 586 square miles of desert terrain. His thoughtful vignettes recall challenges and sites he worked on or found personally intriguing. Adams helped determine the initial scope of the soil and solid waste cleanup. The Environmental Restoration and Disposal Facility today covers 107 acres and has a capacity of 18 million tons. His group also designed and tested a marked, maintenance-free disposal barrier. It uses natural materials that will remain stable for thousands of years. They expanded a network of groundwater monitoring wells to define contaminated plumes, assess treatment effectiveness, and provide relevant data to hydrologists. They also developed a pilot scale pump and treatment plant for use on a four-square-mile carbon tetrachloride plume. Adams shares his perspective on leaking high-level waste storage tanks, dosimeters, and Hanford's obsession with safety."--Provided by publisher.Radioactive waste sitesCleanupfast(OCoLC)fst01087930Radioactive pollutionfast(OCoLC)fst01087680Nuclear weapons plantsWaste disposalEnvironmental aspectsfast(OCoLC)fst01041052Industrial safetyfast(OCoLC)fst00971664Hazardous waste site remediationfast(OCoLC)fst00952317GroundwaterPollutionfast(OCoLC)fst00948250Environmental engineersfast(OCoLC)fst00912975Ecologyfast(OCoLC)fst00901476Radioactive waste sitesCleanupWashington (State)Hanford SiteRadioactive pollutionWashington (State)Hanford SiteGroundwaterPollutionWashington (State)Hanford SiteHazardous waste site remediationWashington (State)Hanford SiteNuclear weapons plantsWaste disposalEnvironmental aspectsWashington (State)Hanford SiteEnvironmental engineersUnited StatesBiographyWashington (State)Hanford SitefastUnited StatesfastHanford Site (Wash.)Safety measuresHanford Site (Wash.)Environmental conditionsHanford Site (Wash.)HistoryHistory.Biographies.Electronic books. 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