Frontiers of historical imagination
Subtitle: narrating the European conquest of native America, 1890-1990
By: Kerwin Lee Klein.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 377
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life -- United States -- Historiography.; Frontier thesis.; Indians, Treatment of -- North America -- Historiography.; Indians of North America -- First contact with Europeans -- Historiography.; Historiography -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; United States -- Territorial expansion -- Historiography.; West (U.S.) -- Historiography.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 367-371) and index.
Based on the author's thesis.