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1 online resource (xi, 377 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Note |
Based on the author's thesis. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-371) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: History, Narrative, West -- Language of History -- What Was the Frontier Thesis? -- Histories and Hypotheses -- Explaining History -- Systems and Paradigms -- Narrative Explanations -- From Spirit to System -- An American Dante: Frederick Jackson Turner -- Frontier Dialectics -- Folly of Comedy -- Provincial Politics -- John Dewey and the Frontier Tragedy -- Pragmatism's Conception of Emplotment -- Merle Curti's Corporate Frontier -- Time Immemorial -- Indian Trade in Universal History -- William Christie MacLeod and the Tragic Savage -- Ruth Benedict and the Cultural Turn -- Ramon's Frontier Tale -- Friedrich Nietzsche and the American Indians -- End of History: A World without Culture -- Science of Acculturation -- Ethno-History -- Double Plot of Edward H. Spicer -- Trouble with Tragedy -- Margins, Borders, Boundaries -- End of Ethnohistory -- Histories of Language -- Fourth Frontier of Henry Nash Smith -- Culture versus Art: Leo Marx -- Myth, Method, and Manliness -- Queer Frontiers -- Dialectica Fronterizos: Gloria Anzaldua -- A Note on Form -- Postwestern -- Predicament of Culture -- Problem of History -- Afterword: Language Is Story. |
| Summary |
The American frontier, a potent symbol since Europeans first stepped ashore on North America, serves as the touchstone for Kerwin Klein's analysis of the narrating of history. Klein explores the traditions through which historians, philosophers, anthropologists, and literary critics have understood the story of America's origin and the way those understandings have shaped and been shaped by changing conceptions of history. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
United States -- Territorial expansion -- Historiography.
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United States. |
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Territorial expansion. |
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Historiography. |
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Frontier and pioneer life -- United States -- Historiography.
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Frontier and pioneer life. |
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West (U.S.) -- Historiography.
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Frontier thesis.
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Frontier thesis. |
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Indians, Treatment of -- North America -- Historiography.
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Indians, Treatment of. |
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North America. |
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Indians of North America -- First contact with other peoples -- Historiography.
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Indians of North America -- First contact with other peoples -- Historiography. |
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Indians of North America -- First contact with other peoples. |
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Historiography -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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History. |
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20th century |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Klein, Kerwin Lee, 1961- Frontiers of historical imagination. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1997 0520204638 (DLC) 96035475 (OCoLC)35673422 |
| ISBN |
9780520924185 (electronic book) |
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0520924185 (electronic book) |
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0585134928 (electronic book) |
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9780585134925 (electronic book) |
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0520204638 |
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