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14 produkter
Great Disorder
National Myth and the Battle for America
Häftad, 2025
245 kr
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Longlisted for the National Book Award in NonfictionLonglisted for the Edwards Book AwardA Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year“Sweeping…A new way to make sense not only of the past, but of the contemporary culture wars.” —New York Times Book Review“A provocative culmination of Slotkin’s …
Lost Battalions: The Great War and the Crisis of American Nationality
Häftad, 2006
477 kr
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Fatal Environment
The Myth of the Frontier in the Age of Industrialization, 1800–1890
Häftad, 1998
389 kr
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Regeneration Through Violence
The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600–1860
Häftad, 2000
446 kr
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In Regeneration Through Violence, the first of his trilogy on the mythology of the American West, Richard Slotkin shows how the attitudes and traditions that shape American culture evolved from the social and psychological anxieties of European settlers struggling in a strange new world to claim …
So Dreadfull a Judgment
Av Richard Slotkin, James K Folsom
Häftad, 1999
577 kr
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For the newly established New England colonies, the war with the Indians of 1675-77 was a catastrophe that pushed the settlements perilously close to worldly ruin. Moreover, it seemed to call into question the religious mission and spiritual status of a group that considered itself a Chosen People, …
Long Road to Antietam
How the Civil War Became a Revolution
Häftad, 2013
200 kr
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In the summer of 1862, after a year of protracted fighting, Abraham Lincoln decided on a radical change of strategy—one that abandoned hope for a compromise peace and committed the nation to all-out war. The centerpiece of that new strategy was the Emancipation Proclamation: an unprecedented use of …
Greenhorns
stories
E-bok, 2018
14 kr
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The people of Greenhorns reflect the different ways Jewish immigrants took to America in the early 20th century, and how America affected them. A kosher butcher with a gambling problem. A Jewish Pygmalion. A woman whose elegant persona conceals the memory of an unspeakable horror. A boy who …
Gunfighter Nation
The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America
E-bok, 2024
210 kr
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National Book Award Finalist: The “impressive” conclusion to the “magisterial trilogy on the mythology of violence in American history” ( Film Quarterly ). “The myth of the Western frontier—which assumes that whites’ conquest of Native Americans and the taming of the wilderness were preordained …
Regeneration Through Violence
The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600–1860
E-bok, 2024
263 kr
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National Book Award Finalist: A study of national myths, lore, and identity that "will interest all those concerned with American cultural history" (American Political Science Review).Winner of the American Historical Association''s Albert J. Beveridge Award for Best Book in American HistoryIn …
Fatal Environment
The Myth of the Frontier in the Age of Industrialization, 1800–1890
E-bok, 2024
235 kr
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A two-time National Book Award finalist''s "ambitious and provocative" look at Custer''s Last Stand, capitalism, and the rise of the cowboys-and-Indians legend (The New York Review of Books).In The Fatal Environment, historian Richard Slotkin demonstrates how the myth of frontier expansion and …
Return of Henry Starr
A Novel
E-bok, 2024
148 kr
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Wild West lore collides with a life of crime in this biographical novel of the legendary Cherokee outlaw.Growing up on Indian Territory in Oklahoma, Henry Starr had an illustrious family lineage: half Cherokee warriors, half western outlaws. Inspired by dime-store novels and old family tales, he …
No Quarter
The Battle of the Crater, 1864
E-bok, 2009
98 kr
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In this richly researched and dramatic work of military history, eminent historian Richard Slotkin recounts one of the Civil War’s most pivotal events: the Battle of the Crater on July 30, 1864. At first glance, the Union’s plan seemed brilliant: A regiment of miners would burrow beneath a …
