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" The fatal environment : "
by Richard Slotkin
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BL
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701792
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b523981
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| Main Entry
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Slotkin, Richard,1942-
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| Title & Author
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The fatal environment : : the myth of the frontier in the age of industrialization, 1800-1890 /\ by Richard Slotkin
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| Publication Statement
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Norman :: University of Oklahoma Press,, 1998
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xvii, 636 pages ;; 24 cm
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080613030X
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: 9780806130309
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| Notes
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Originally published: New York : Atheneum, 1985
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 587-618) and index
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| Contents
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pt. I. Myth Is the Language of Historical Memory -- Ch. 1. Exposition: The Frontier as Myth and Ideology -- Ch. 2. Myth and Historical Memory -- Ch. 3. Frontier Myth as a Theory of Development -- pt. II. Language of the Frontier Myth -- Ch. 4. Regeneration Through Violence: History as an Indian War, 1675-1820 -- Ch. 5. Ideology and Fiction: The Role of Cooper -- pt. III. Metropolis vs. Frontier -- Ch. 6. Backwash of a Closing Frontier: Industrialization and the Hiatus of Expansion, 1820-1845 -- Ch. 7. Utopia/Dystopia: Plantation, Factory, and City, 1820-1845 -- pt. IV. Myth of a New Frontier: Renewal and Breakdown, 1845-1850 -- Ch. 8. Choice of Frontiers: Texas, Mexico, and the Far West, 1835-1850 -- Ch. 9. Myth That Wasn't: Literary Responses to the Mexican War, 1847-1850 -- pt. V. Railroad Frontier, 1850-1860 -- Ch. 10. Prophecy of the Iron Horse -- Ch. 11. Ideology of Race Conflict, 1848-1858 -- Ch. 12. Inversion of the Frontier Hero: William Walker and John Brown, 1855-1860 -- pt. VI. Toward the Last Frontier, 1860-1876 -- Ch. 13. Regimentation and Reconstruction: The Emergence of a Managerial Ideology, 1860-1873 -- Ch. 14. Reconstruction of Class and Racial Symbolism, 1865-1876 -- Ch. 15. New El Dorado, 1874 -- pt. VII. Boy General, 1839-1876 -- Ch. 16. West Point, Wall Street, and the Wild West, 1839-1868 -- Ch. 17. Boy General Returns; or, Custer's Revenge, 1868-1876 -- pt. VIII. Last Stand as Ideological Object, 1876-1890 -- Ch. 18. To the Last Man: Assembling the Last Stand Myth, 1876 -- Ch. 19. Indian War Comes Home: The Great Strike of 1877 -- Ch. 20. Morgan's Last Stand: Literary Mythology and the Specter of Revolution, 1876-1890
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| Abstract
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Discusses the subjugation of Native Americans on the American frontier, and explains how it was used to justify American territorial expansion
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American literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism
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Frontier and pioneer life in literature
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Frontier and pioneer life-- United States-- Historiography
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Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876-- Historiography
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Myth
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United States, Territorial expansion, Historiography
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| Dewey Classification
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973/.072
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E179.5.S6 1998
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