Perimeters of Democracy: Inverse Utopias and the Wartime Social Landscape in the American West

by Heather Fryer

Book Overview

During times of conflict, Americans have worried that enemies within would twist freedom of speech into a weapon of propaganda and use freedom of assembly to unleash violent internal chaos. As a result, the government isolated and confined within federal communities groups that they deemed dangerous. Within these so-called cultural structures of realistic democracy, the government awkwardly attempted to protect citizens while curbing their rights...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803220332
• ISBN13: 9780803220331
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.4" x 9.1"