Fortress America : how we embraced fear and abandoned democracy / Elaine Tyler May.
Fortress America : how we embraced fear and abandoned democracy / Elaine Tyler May.
Fortress America : how we embraced fear and abandoned democracy / Elaine Tyler May.
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Publisher
New York : Basic Books, 2017.
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G 2018/4517
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Language
English
Physical Description
Physical content
vii, 247 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Introduction: The bunker mentality -- Gimme shelter : security in the Atomic Age -- The color of danger : from red to black -- Vigilante virtue : fantasy, reality, and the law -- Women : victims or villains? -- Locked-up America : self-incarceration and the illusion of security -- Epilogue: Back to...
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Publisher
New York : Basic Books, 2017.
Edition
First edition.
Date Published
2017.
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Summary
"Fear has seeped into every area of American life: Americans own more guns than citizens of any other country, sequester themselves in barricaded houses and gated communities, and retreat from public spaces. And yet, since the 1990s crime rates have plummeted. Why then, are Americans so afraid? In Fortress America, award-winning historian Elaine Ty...
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Fortress America : how we embraced fear and abandoned democracy / Elaine Tyler May.
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Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-236) and index.
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©2017
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Call Numbers
G 2018/4517
Record Identifier
74VKVAx4N2Py
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVAx4N2Py
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ISBN
9780465055920
DDC
364.10973
MMS ID
991024178119002626
