The Rise of the Gunbelt: The Military Remapping of Industrial America

by Ann Markusen, Sabina Deitrick, Peter Hall, et al.

Since World War II, America's economic landscape has undergone a profound transformation. The effects of this change can be seen in the decline of the traditional industrial heartland and the emergence of new high tech industrial complexes in California, Texas, Boston, and Florida. The Rise of the Gunbelt demonstrates that this economic restructuring is a direct result of the rise of the military industrial complex (MIC) and a wholly new industry...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195066480
• ISBN13: 9780195066487
• Release Date: July 1991
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.6"