The Fatal Environment / Mythology of the American West (ePub)
The Myth of the Frontier in the Age of Industrialization, 1800-1890
(Sprache: Englisch)
A two-time National Book Award finalist's "ambitious and provocative" look at Custer's Last Stand, capitalism, and the rise of the cowboys-and-Indians legend (The New York Review of Books).
In The Fatal Environment, historian Richard Slotkin...
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A two-time National Book Award finalist's "ambitious and provocative" look at Custer's Last Stand, capitalism, and the rise of the cowboys-and-Indians legend (The New York Review of Books).
In The Fatal Environment, historian Richard Slotkin demonstrates how the myth of frontier expansion and subjugation of Native Americans helped justify the course of America's rise to wealth and power. Using Custer's Last Stand as a metaphor for what Americans feared might happen if the frontier should be closed and the "savage" element be permitted to dominate the "civilized," Slotkin shows the emergence by 1890 of a mythos redefined to help Americans respond to the confusion and strife of industrialization and imperial expansion.
"A clearly written, challenging and provocative work that should prove enormously valuable to serious students of American history." -The New York Times
"[An] arresting hypothesis." -Henry Nash Smith, American Historical Review
In The Fatal Environment, historian Richard Slotkin demonstrates how the myth of frontier expansion and subjugation of Native Americans helped justify the course of America's rise to wealth and power. Using Custer's Last Stand as a metaphor for what Americans feared might happen if the frontier should be closed and the "savage" element be permitted to dominate the "civilized," Slotkin shows the emergence by 1890 of a mythos redefined to help Americans respond to the confusion and strife of industrialization and imperial expansion.
"A clearly written, challenging and provocative work that should prove enormously valuable to serious students of American history." -The New York Times
"[An] arresting hypothesis." -Henry Nash Smith, American Historical Review
Autoren-Porträt von Richard Slotkin
Richard Slotkin, widely regarded as one of America's leading cultural critics, is a two-time finalist for the National Book Award. In addition to his prize-winning trilogy on the myth of the frontier in America, Slotkin is the author of Lost Battalions, a New York Times Notable Book, as well as three historical novels: The Crater, The Return of Henry Starr, and Abe: A Novel of the Young Lincoln. He is the Olin Professor of English and American Studies at Wesleyan University and lives in Middletown, Connecticut.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Richard Slotkin
- 2024, 632 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Open Road Media
- ISBN-10: 1504090365
- ISBN-13: 9781504090360
- Erscheinungsdatum: 23.01.2024
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- Größe: 2.38 MB
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