num_pages: 670
description: In Regeneration Through Violence , the first of his trilogy on the mythology of the American West, Richard Slotkin shows how the attitudes and traditions that shape American culture evolved from the social and psychological anxieties of European settlers struggling in a strange new world to claim the land and displace the Native Americans. Using the popular literature of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and early nineteenth centuries-including captivity narratives, the Daniel Boone tales, and the writings of Hawthorne, Thoreau, and Melville-Slotkin traces the full development of this myth.
language: English
title: Regeneration Through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600–1860
titlecomplete: Regeneration Through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600–1860
genres: American, Mythology, Politics, 18th Century, American History, Criticism, Nonfiction, Westerns, History, 19th Century
ratings_count: 208
series: Myth of the American Frontier
awards: awardedAt: 94723200000
name: Albert J. Beveridge Award, awardedAt: 126259200000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: History
publisher: University of Oklahoma Press