The fatal environment : the myth of the frontier in the age of industrialization, 1800-1890
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The fatal environment : the myth of the frontier in the age of industrialization, 1800-1890
University of Oklahoma Press, 1998
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Originally published: New York : Atheneum, 1985
Includes bibliographical references (p. [587]-618) and index
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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. 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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