The Fatal Environment: The Myth of the Frontier in the Age of Industrialization, 1800-1890
by Slotkin, Richard
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0689114109
- ISBN 13
- 9780689114106
- Seller
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Beloit, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
New York: Atheneum, 1985. Sequel to the author's Beveridge Award-winning 'Regeneration Through Violence', this is a broad-ranging study of the fundamental American myth, of an Edenic wilderness that must be tamed by civilized [white Protestant] men; and how that myth was used in the nineteenth century to justify/explain America's rise to power and to rationalize violence against groups impeding that progress: first, the 'Indians', later "ignorant" Africans & "savage" white ethnic proletarians (prone to labor strikes) in the north-east. Stout hardcover in jacket, as pictured; stated first edition (first printing). Light shelfwear to book, minor rumpling/dishing to spine; jacket shows minor edgewear, short tear to rear panel, spine faded - the author's name should be red, not white. Text clean; xiii, blank, 636 pages + note on the author, a Wesleyan University professor; index, extensive bibliography, notes. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Large Octavo.
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- Bookseller
- Bookworks MWABA, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- v0468
- Title
- The Fatal Environment: The Myth of the Frontier in the Age of Industrialization, 1800-1890
- Author
- Slotkin, Richard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0689114109
- ISBN 13
- 9780689114106
- Publisher
- Atheneum
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1985
- Keywords
- Cultural Studies, Imperialism, Racism, Civilization, Moralism, Nationalism, Prejudice, Custer
- Size
- Large Octavo
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Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
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Beloit, Wisconsin
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