Frontiers of historical imagination

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.

subjects: First contact with Europeans,  Frontier and pioneer life,  Frontier thesis,  Historiography,  History,  Indians of North America,  Indians, Treatment of,  Territorial expansion,  Treatment of Indians,  Indians of north america, culture,  America, discovery and exploration,  Indians of north america, history,  Indians of north america, cultural assimilation,  First contact with other peoples

Places: North America,  United States,  West (U.S.)

Times: 20th century