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The Fatal Environment by Richard Slotkin – book cover

The Fatal Environment: The Myth of the Frontier in the Age of Industrialization, 1800–1890 (Mythology of the American West)

By Richard Slotkin

History

Discusses the subjugation of Native Americans on the American frontier, and explains how it was used to justify American territorial expansion.

Release Date
1998
Length
660 pages
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
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Discusses the subjugation of Native Americans on the American frontier, and explains how it was used to justify American territorial expansion.