Frontiers of Historical Imagination: Narrating the European Conquest of Native America, 1890-1990
Language: English
Published by University of California Press, Berkeley, 1999
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xi, 377 pp, preface, Introduction: History, Narrative, West; I. THE LANGUAGE OF HISTORY: What Was the Frontier Thesis?; Histories and Hypotheses; Explaining History; Systems and Paradigms; Narrative Explanations. II. FROM SPIRIT TO SYSTEM: An American Dante: Frederick Jackson Turner; Frontier Dialectics; The Folly of Comedy; Provincial Politics; John Dewey and the Frontier Tragedy; Pragmatism's Conception of Emplotment; Merle Curti's Corporate Frontier. III. TIME IMMEMORIAL: The 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; The End of History: A World withour Culture; The Science of Acculturation; Ethno-History; The Double Plot of Edward H. Spicer; The Trouble with Tragedy; Margins, Borders, Boundaries; The End of Ethnohistory. IV. HISTORIES OF LANGUAGE: The Fourth Frontier of Henry Nash Smith; Culture versus Art: Leo Marx; Myth, Method, and Manliness; Queer Frontiers; Dialectica Fronterizos: Gloria Anzaldua; Postwestern; The Predicament of Culture; The Problem of History; Afterword: Language Is Story; notes, a bibliographic note, index. First Paperback Edition, 1999. Pristine, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Paperback. Size: 8vo.…
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- Title
- Frontiers of Historical Imagination: Narrating the European Conquest of Native America, 1890-1990
- Author
- Klein, Kerwin Lee
- Publisher
- University of California Press, Berkeley
- Publication year
- 1999
- Condition
- As New
- Book Type
- Book
- Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0520221664
- ISBN 13
- 9780520221666
- Edition
- First Paperback Edition.
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- U. S. HISTORY
The American West was once the frontier space where migrating Europe collided with Native America, where the historical civilizations of the Old World met the nonhistorical wilds of the New. It was not only the cultural combat zone where American democracy was forged but also the ragged edge of History itself, where historical and nonhistorical defied and defined each other.
Klein maintains that the idea of a collision between people with and without history still dominates public memory. But the collision, he believes, resounds even more powerfully in the historical imagination, which creates conflicts between narration and knowledge and carries them into the language used to describe the American frontier. In Klein's words, "We remain obscurely entangled in philosophies of history we no longer profess, and the very idea of 'America' balances on history's shifting frontiers."
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