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- catalog contributor b343319.
- catalog coverage "United States Territorial expansion Historiography.".
- catalog created "1985.".
- catalog date "1985".
- catalog date "1985.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1985.".
- catalog description "Bibliography: p. [587]-618.".
- catalog description "Pt. I. Myth is the Language of historical memory. Exposition: the frontier as myth and ideology -- Myth and historical memory -- The frontier myth as a theory of development -- Pt. II. The language of the frontier myth. Regeneration through violence: history as an Indian war, 1675-1820 -- Ideology and fiction: the role of Cooper -- Pt. III. Metropolis vs. frontier. The backwash of a closing frontier: industrialization and the hiatus of expansion, 1820-1845 -- Utopia/dystopia: plantation, factory, and city, 1820-1845 -- Pt. IV. Myth of a new frontier: renewal and breakdown, 1845-1850. A choice of frontiers: Texas, Mexico, and the far West, 1835-1850 -- The myth that wasn't: literary responses to the Mexican War, 1847-1850 -- Pt. V. The railroad frontier, 1850-1860. Prophecy of the iron horse -- The ideology of race conflict, 1848-1858 -- The inversion of the frontier hero: William Walker and John Brown, 1855-1860 -- Pt. VI. Toward the last frontier, 1860-1876. Regimentation and reconstruction: the emergence of a managerial ideology, 1860-1873 -- The reconstruction of class and racial symbolism, 1865-1876 -- The new El Dorado, 1874 -- Pt. VII. The boy general, 1839-1876. West Point, Wall Street, and the Wild West, 1839-1868 -- The boy general returns; or, Custer's revenge, 1868-1876 -- Pt. VIII. The last stand as ideological object, 1876-1890. To the last man: assembling the last stand myth, 1876 -- The Indian war comes home: the great strike of 1877 -- Morgan's last stand: literary mythology and the specter of revolution, 1876-1890.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 636 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Fatal environment.".
- catalog identifier "0689114109 :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Fatal environment.".
- catalog issued "1985".
- catalog issued "1985.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Atheneum,".
- catalog relation "Fatal environment.".
- catalog spatial "United States Territorial expansion Historiography.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "American literature 19th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "E179.5 .S6 1985".
- catalog subject "Frontier and pioneer life United States Historiography.".
- catalog subject "Frontier and pioneer life in literature.".
- catalog subject "Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876 Historiography.".
- catalog subject "Myth.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Pt. I. Myth is the Language of historical memory. Exposition: the frontier as myth and ideology -- Myth and historical memory -- The frontier myth as a theory of development -- Pt. II. The language of the frontier myth. Regeneration through violence: history as an Indian war, 1675-1820 -- Ideology and fiction: the role of Cooper -- Pt. III. Metropolis vs. frontier. The backwash of a closing frontier: industrialization and the hiatus of expansion, 1820-1845 -- Utopia/dystopia: plantation, factory, and city, 1820-1845 -- Pt. IV. Myth of a new frontier: renewal and breakdown, 1845-1850. A choice of frontiers: Texas, Mexico, and the far West, 1835-1850 -- The myth that wasn't: literary responses to the Mexican War, 1847-1850 -- Pt. V. The railroad frontier, 1850-1860. Prophecy of the iron horse -- The ideology of race conflict, 1848-1858 -- The inversion of the frontier hero: William Walker and John Brown, 1855-1860 -- Pt. VI. Toward the last frontier, 1860-1876. Regimentation and reconstruction: the emergence of a managerial ideology, 1860-1873 -- The reconstruction of class and racial symbolism, 1865-1876 -- The new El Dorado, 1874 -- Pt. VII. The boy general, 1839-1876. West Point, Wall Street, and the Wild West, 1839-1868 -- The boy general returns; or, Custer's revenge, 1868-1876 -- Pt. VIII. The last stand as ideological object, 1876-1890. To the last man: assembling the last stand myth, 1876 -- The Indian war comes home: the great strike of 1877 -- Morgan's last stand: literary mythology and the specter of revolution, 1876-1890.".
- catalog title "The fatal environment : the myth of the frontier in the age of industrialization, 1800-1890 / by Richard Slotkin.".
- catalog type "text".