Frontiers of historical imagination : narrating the European conquest of native America, 1890-1990 /
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 unders...
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| 格式: | Licensed eBooks |
| 语言: | 英语 |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press
©1997.
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| 在线阅读: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.8501097 |
| 总结: | 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. |
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| Item Description: | Based on the author's thesis. |
| 实物描述: | 1 online resource (xi, 377 pages) |
| 参考书目: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-371) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520924185 0520924185 0585134928 9780585134925 0520204638 |