The Fatal Environment
The Myth of the Frontier in the Age of Industrialization, 1800-1890
Published on 30. April 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
656 pages
978-0-8061-3030-9 (ISBN)
Description
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" element be permitted to dominate the "civilized," Slotkin shows the emergence by 1890 of a myth redefined to help Americans respond to the confusion and strife of industrialization and imperial expansion.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oklahoma
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 39 mm
Weight
1100 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8061-3030-9 (9780806130309)
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Person
Richard Slotkin is Olin Professor of English and Director of American Studies at Wesleyan University. He is the author of Regeneration Through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600-1860 and Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of Frontier in Twentieth-Century America, published by the University of Oklahoma Press.