The fatal environment
Description
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.
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
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