Savage Perils: Racial Frontiers and Nuclear Apocalypse in American Culture 9780806143064

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Автор: Sharp Patrick B.
Название: Savage Perils: Racial Frontiers and Nuclear Apocalypse in American Culture
ISBN: 9780806143064
Издательство: University of Oklahoma Press
Классификация:

История Америк

Военная история

Общество и культура: общие вопросы

Насилие в обществе

Переговоры по вооружению и контроль над ним

ISBN-10: 0806143061
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 270
Вес: 0.39 кг.
Дата издания: 01.06.2012
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 10 black & white illustrations
Размер: 20.83 x 14.73 x 2.03 cm
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Подзаголовок: Racial frontiers and nuclear apocalypse in american culture
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Поставляется из: США
Описание: Revisiting the racial origins of the conflict between civilization and savagery in twentieth-century America The atomic age brought the Bomb and spawned stories of nuclear apocalypse to remind us of impending doom. As Patrick Sharp reveals, those stories had their origins well before Hiroshima, reaching back to Charles Darwin and Americas frontier. In Savage Perils, Sharp examines the racial underpinnings of American culture, from the early industrial age to the Cold War. He explores the influence of Darwinism, frontier nostalgia, and literary modernism on the history and representations of nuclear weaponry. Taking into account such factors as anthropological race theory and Asian immigration, he charts the origins of a worldview that continues to shape our culture and politics. Sharp dissects Darwins arguments regarding the struggle between civilization and savagery, theories that fueled future-war stories ending in Anglo dominance in Britain and influenced Turnerian visions of the frontier in America. Citing George W. Bushs Axis of Evil, Sharp argues that many Americans still believe in the racially charged opposition between civilization and savagery, and consider the possibility of nonwhite savages gaining control of technology the biggest threat in the war on terror. His insightful book shows us that this conflict is but the latest installment in an ongoing saga that has been at the heart of American identity from the beginning-and that understanding it is essential if we are to eradicate racist mythologies from American life. Patrick B. Sharp is Assistant Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of Liberal Studies at California State University, Los Angeles.

Savage Perils: Racial Frontiers and Nuclear Apocalypse in American Culture, Sharp Patrick B.