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Frontiers of Historical Imagination - Narrating the European Conquest of Native America, 1890-1990 (Paperback, New edition)
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Frontiers of Historical Imagination - Narrating the European Conquest of Native America, 1890-1990 (Paperback, New edition)
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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."
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