The fatal environment

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In The Fatal Environment, Richard Slotkin demonstrates how the myth of frontier expansion and subjugation of the Indians helped to justify the course of America's rise to wealth and power. Using Custer's Last Stand as a metaphor for what Americans feared might happen if the frontier should be closed and the "savage" element be permitted to dominate the "civilized," Slotkin shows the emergence by 1890 of a myth redefined to help Americans respond to the confusion and strife of industrialization and imperial expansion.

subjects: Historiography,  Frontier and pioneer life,  Myth,  Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876,  History and criticism,  American literature,  Territorial expansion,  Frontier and pioneer life in literature,  Environmental policy,  American literature, history and criticism, 19th century,  United states, territorial expansion,  Industrialization

Places: United States,  Myth. 0

Times: 19th century