Savage Perils: Racial Frontiers and Nuclear Apocalypse in American Culture

by Patrick B. Sharp

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806143061
• ISBN13: 9780806143064
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.2"