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The Fatal Environment: The Myth of the Frontier in the Age of Industrialization 1800-1890
The Fatal Environment The Myth of the Frontier in the Age of Industrialization 18001890
Author: Richard Slotkin
In The Fatal Environment, Richard Slotkin demonstrates how the myth of frontier expansion and subjugation of the Indians helped to 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"...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780060976262
ISBN-10: 0060976268
Publication Date: 4/15/1998
Pages: 656
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Publisher: Harper Perennial
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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