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Fatal Environment - by Richard Slotkin (Paperback)

Name: Fatal Environment - by Richard Slotkin (Paperback)
Brand: University of Oklahoma Press
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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.
Author(s): Richard Slotkin
656 Pages
History, United States

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Book Synopsis

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.

Review Quotes

"Without question, this is the most ambitious and provocative work in the field of American Studies to appear in recent years." -George M. Fredrickson, New York Review of Books

Dimensions (Overall): 9.23 Inches (H) x 6.13 Inches (W) x 1.23 Inches (D)

Weight: 1.79 Pounds

Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up

Number of Pages: 656

Genre: History

Sub-Genre: United States

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Theme: 19th Century

Format: Paperback

Author: Richard Slotkin

Language: English

Street Date: April 15, 1998

TCIN: 1006377062

UPC: 9780806130309

Item Number (DPCI): 247-05-7760

Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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Estimated ship dimensions: 1.23 inches length x 6.13 inches width x 9.23 inches height

Estimated ship weight: 1.79 pounds

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