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Frontiers of Historical Imagination - Narrating the European Conquest of Native America, 1890-1990 (Paperback, New edition) Loot Price: R1,108
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Frontiers of Historical Imagination - Narrating the European Conquest of Native America, 1890-1990 (Paperback, New edition)

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 analysis of the narrating of history. Klein explores the traditions through which historians, philosophers, anthropologists, and literary critics have understood the story of America's origin and the way those understandings have shaped and been shaped by changing conceptions of 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."

General

Imprint: University of California Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: November 1999
First published: November 1999
Authors: Kerwin Lee Klein
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 388
Edition: New edition
ISBN-13: 978-0-520-22166-6
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > American history > General
Books > History > American history > General
LSN: 0-520-22166-4
Barcode: 9780520221666

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