Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-263) and index.
Contents:
The triumph of civilization : race and American exceptionalism before Darwin -- Man the toolmaker : race, technology, and colonialism in Darwin's The descent of man -- The Darwinist frontier : Roosevelt, Turner, and the evolution of the West -- Darwin's bulldogs : evolution and the future-war story in Britain -- Conquering new frontiers : Burroughs, London, and the race wars of the future -- The yellow peril : science fiction and the response to the Pacific war -- "A very pleasant way to die" : science fiction, race, and the official representation of the atomic bomb -- Beyond the yellow peril : John Hersey's "Hiroshima" -- Official fictions : future-war stories after Hiroshima -- Survival and self-help : civil defense, white suburbia, and the rise of the nuclear frontier -- The color of Ground Zero : civil defense, segregation, and savagery on the nuclear frontier.
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