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Race, Ethnicity and Nuclear War: Representations of Nuclear Weapons and Post-Apocalyptic Worlds

This book required a lengthy and extensive process of evidence collection since it covers texts from around the English-speaking world: the UK, USA, Caribbean, Australia and India. The research went well beyond that undertaken for my PhD, hence the monograph being published several years after the conclusion of my thesis. Various archives were consulted, notably the Science Fiction archive at Liverpool. Visiting that collection was necessary to reconstruct the tradition of literary texts that combine racial genocide with technologically-driven future war. I traced this tradition back to the 1870s, further evidence of the ambitious scope of this project.