Frontiers of historical imagination

The American frontier, a potent symbol since Europeans first stepped ashore on North America, serves as the touchstone for Kerwin Klein's remarkable analysis of the narrating of history. Klein explores the traditions through which historians, philosophers, anthropologists, and literary critics have understood America's origin story and the way those understandings have shaped and been shaped by changing conceptions of History.

First sentence: The tale has been told so many times that it has been ritualized into one of the origin stories of American history: In 1893 Frederick Jackson Turner stood before the annual meeting of the American Historical Association to read a brief essay, "The Significance of the Frontier in American History," and articulated a set of ideas that reshaped historiography.

Year

1997

Language

English

Publisher

University of California Press

Editions

1

Pages

388

ISBN

9780520221666

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