The tale has been told so many times that it has been ritualized into one of the origin stories of American history: In 1893 Frederick Jackson Turner stood before the annual meeting of the American Historical Association to read a brief essay, "The Significance of the Frontier in American History," and articulated a set of ideas that reshaped historiography.
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Frontiers of historical imagination
narrating the European conquest of native America, 1890-1990
by Kerwin Lee Klein
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The American frontier, a potent symbol since Europeans first stepped ashore on North America, serves as the touchstone for Kerwin Klein's remarkable analysis of the narrating of history. Klein explores the traditions through which historians, philosophers, anthropologists, and literary critics have understood America's origin story and the way those understandings have shaped and been shaped by changing conceptions of History.
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First contact with Europeans, Frontier and pioneer life, Frontier thesis, Historiography, History, Indians of North America, Indians, Treatment of, Territorial expansion, Treatment of Indians, Indians of north america, culture, America, discovery and exploration, Indians of north america, history, Indians of north america, cultural assimilation, First contact with other peoplesPlaces
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Frontiers of Historical Imagination: Narrating the European Conquest of Native America, 1890-1990
November 10, 1999, University of California Press
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Frontiers of historical imagination: narrating the European conquest of native America, 1890-1990
1997, University of California Press
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 367-371) and index.
Based on the author's thesis.
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