The Fatal Environment: The Myth of the Frontier in the Age of Industrialization, 1800–1890 by Richard Slotkin

The Fatal Environment: The Myth of the Frontier in the Age of Industrialization, 1800–1890

Richard Slotkin

656 pages first pub 1985 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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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...

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