Cold War Dixie: Militarization and Modernization in the American South (Politics and Culture in the Twentieth-Century South) - Hardcover

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Frederickson, Kari

 
9780820345192: Cold War Dixie: Militarization and Modernization in the American South (Politics and Culture in the Twentieth-Century South)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0820345199 ISBN 13: 9780820345192
Verlag: Longleaf on behalf of Univ of Georgia Press, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

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, landscape, social relations, and politics of this corner of the South. In 1950, the area comprising the SRP and its surrounding communities was primarily poor, uneducated, rural, and staunchly Democratic; by the mid-1960s, it boasted the most PhDs per capita in the state and had become increasingly middle class, suburban, and Republican.

The SRP's story is notably dramatic; however, Frederickson argues, it is far from unique. The influx of new money, new workers, and new business practices stemming from Cold War-era federal initiatives helped drive the emergence of the Sunbelt. These factors also shaped local race relations. In the case of the SRP, DuPont's deeply conservative ethos blunted opportunities for social change, but it also helped contain the radical white backlash that was so prominent in places like the Mississippi Delta that received less Cold War investment.

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KARI FREDERICKSON is an associate professor and chair of the department of history at the University of Alabama. She is author of The Dixiecrat Revolt and the End of the Solid South, 1932-1968 and coeditor of Making Waves: Female Activists in Twentieth-Century Florida.

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Verlag
Longleaf on behalf of Univ of Georgia Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0820345199
ISBN 13 
9780820345192
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