Frontiers of Historical Imagination
Subtitle: Narrating the European Conquest of Native America, 1890-1990
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: November 10, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780520221666
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; American history: from c 1900 -; Historiography; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; United States - General; U.S. Local History - Western United States; History; History - U.S; History: American; History: World; USA; United States - State & Local - General; History / General
First sentence: 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.