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Dirty wars: landscape, power, and waste in western American literature
2009, University of Nebraska Press
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Table of Contents

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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Lincoln
Series
Postwestern horizons

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Dewey Decimal Class
810.9/35878
Library of Congress
PS271 .B43 2009

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23554592M
Internet Archive
dirtywarslandsca00beck
ISBN 13
9780803226319
LCCN
2009024329
Library Thing
9262544

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