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Savage Perils - Racial Frontiers and Nuclear Apocalypse in American Culture (Paperback) Loot Price: R840
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Savage Perils - Racial Frontiers and Nuclear Apocalypse in American Culture (Paperback): Patrick B. Sharp

Savage Perils - Racial Frontiers and Nuclear Apocalypse in American Culture (Paperback)

Patrick B. Sharp

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"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 America's 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 Darwin's 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. Bush's "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.

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Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: June 2012
First published: June 2012
Authors: Patrick B. Sharp
Dimensions: 216 x 140 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 978-0-8061-4306-4
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > American history > General
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Military history
Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > Other warfare & defence issues > Arms negotiation & control
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Violence in society > General
Books > History > American history > General
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Military history
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LSN: 0-8061-4306-1
Barcode: 9780806143064

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