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  1. Dirty wars
    landscape, power, and waste in western American literature
    Author: Beck, John
    Published: ©2009
    Publisher:  University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln

    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0803226314; 0803226691; 9780803226319; 9780803226692
    Series: Postwestern horizons
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; American literature; Literature; Politics and culture; Politics and literature; War and literature; Geschichte; Literatur; American literature; American literature; Politics and literature; Politics and culture; War and literature; Landschaft <Motiv>; Roman; Ausbeutung <Motiv>; Militärische Anlage
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (366 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

    Introduction : dirty wars -- The purloined landscape -- The prehistory of the permanent war economy -- Dust breeding : narratives of inter(n)ment -- Learning from Los Alamos -- Gridlocked and homeless -- Loomings : dread in west Texas -- After nature : gothic contamination -- After nature writing -- The west as Cold War museum -- The fringe of empire -- Conclusion : endless war

    Since World War II, the American West has become the nation's military arsenal, proving ground, and disposal site. Through a wide-ranging discussion of recent literature produced in and about the West, Dirty Wars explores how the region's iconic landscapes, invested with myths of national virtue, have obscured the West's crucial role in a post-World War II age of "permanent war."

  2. Dirty wars
    landscape, power, and waste in western American literature
    Author: Beck, John
    Published: 2009
    Publisher:  University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln ; EBSCO Industries, Inc., Birmingham, AL, USA

    Since World War II, the American West has become the nation's military arsenal, proving ground, and disposal site. Through a wide-ranging discussion of recent literature produced in and about the West, Dirty Wars explores how the region's iconic... more

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    Since World War II, the American West has become the nation's military arsenal, proving ground, and disposal site. Through a wide-ranging discussion of recent literature produced in and about the West, Dirty Wars explores how the region's iconic landscapes, invested with myths of national virtue, have obscured the West's crucial role in a post-World War II age of "permanent war."...

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780803226692; 0803226691
    RVK Categories: HU 1691 ; HU 9800
    Series: Postwestern horizons
    Subjects: Literatur; USA <Motiv>; Ost-West-Konflikt <Motiv>; Auswirkung; Militärische Anlage <Motiv>; Landschaft <Motiv>; Ausbeutung <Motiv>
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (366 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

  3. Dirty wars
    landscape, power, and waste in western American literature
    Published: c2009
    Publisher:  University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln

    Since World War II, the American West has become the nation's military arsenal, proving ground, and disposal site. Through a wide-ranging discussion of recent literature produced in and about the West, Dirty Wars explores how the region's iconic... more

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    Since World War II, the American West has become the nation's military arsenal, proving ground, and disposal site. Through a wide-ranging discussion of recent literature produced in and about the West, Dirty Wars explores how the region's iconic landscapes, invested with myths of national virtue, have obscured the West's crucial role in a post-World War II age of "permanent war

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780803226692; 0803226691
    Series: Postwestern horizons
    Subjects: American literature; American literature; Politics and literature; Politics and culture; War and literature; Politics and literature; Politics and culture; American literature; American literature; Literature; Politics and culture; Politics and literature; War and literature; LITERARY CRITICISM ; American ; General; American literature; Criticism, interpretation, etc; History
    Scope: Online Ressource (366 p.)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record